Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-20
HOW SHE WAS CURED

l Working throughout the year among the vines, he had acquired the wine color of m onion. He went to Revigny now and then to put by some money that he might have a good dowry for his daughter Rosetta, pretty lass, blond as the harvest field and as fresh as May morn.
 Rosetta had entered her eighteenth year and was much sought after. She drew some lovers by the hope of finding in her good match" Others she at tracted by her beauty and fascination. Time lost! Rosetta only laughed at her suitors and found much to ridicule in this one and that one.
 l She laughed besides for that best of reasons with a young girl-that her heart was no longer her own. At a country festival she had danced several waltZes with Paolo Laurient, the son of a rich dealer in Ligny. The brown hair, large dark eyes, regular profile and ca ressing voice of Paolo had produced upon Rosetta an ineffaceable impression. l His gentle and affable manners con- trasted especially with the roughness of the youths of Revigny. Having received a good education, he talked with mar vicious facility, and Rosetta was not slow i'll listening to him.
 On the evening of the festival this true daughter of Eve, having lost her family voluntarily in the crowd, re- turned to Revigny on Paolo's arm. They | were at least two hours on the way, | walking slowly and compelled from time to time to pause when the wind blew too strongly beneath the great | poplars which lined the avenue. They arrived at the village which was desert ed, and under the field of azure studded with stars exchanged their first kiss. | Very frequently after this Rosetta had met Paolo. Then his father had sent him to Paris to study medicine, and the lovers, exchanging vows of mutual fealty, sadly separated, and this was why Rosetta laughed at the suitors who came ill handsome Paolo's absence.
 For the first months after his depar- ture he wrote regularly to Rosetta Then the letters became more rare, with in tervals of month. Gradually they be- came laconic billets, scribbled, no doubt, ill haste at the corner of table in a cafe and giving evidence of growing indif- ference. At last they ceased entirely PaOlo had forgotten her.
 It was an old story. At first Paolo had refused to take part ill the diver sions of his fellow students, the balls and brewery meetings. Then they leased him and accused him of having left a love i'll the country. This made him angry; but, being fond of pleasure, he soon decided to take his part ill the play. After all, " he said to himself, they have reason to sheer. Why quarrel with pleasure? Leave sadness to the gray boards and profit by the present.
 ''But Rosetta:" his conscience mur- mured
 ''Bah!' he thought. ''She will con- sole herself. Let her go. Perhaps she has already forgotten me. Lovers oaths |. are quickly broken, says the old prov erb, and why should ours prove an ex, ceptiOn to the ruler"
 But Rosetta was not to be consoled. On the contrary, she suffered terribly al this abandonment and many time: turned her mournful eyes toward Paris
 Several years went by. Paolo haC known how to divert himself and vel study. After having passed his examina ton with honor he wrote to his father for permission to establish himself il Paris. To this, however, Father Lau rient could not consent. He desired hi! son to return immediately to Ligny anC I establish himself there
 As for the repugnance you seem tC ? manifest for your native country,'' h, wrote, that is not the point in ques tiOn. The workshops of Ligny hay, = made you q gentleman, and you belong to the people here. You owe a sacred debt to your country, and as sure as yol are gentleman this debt, my son, yol will certainly pay"
 ''The dcuce!" thought Paolo. ''Fa :, ther Laurient will be hard to convince | But must make him yield. Besides, i I return there, I shall see Rosetta = whom, I must confess, I have treatet basely. I hope she has not started scandal to meet me at Ligny. But Fla ther Laurient would have spoken of i !. if she had I shall stay here.'' Paolo's fears were groundless. Rosett had resigned herself to the inevitable She dared not aspire now to be Paolo' wife. Would it not be a very astonish ing thing if the little Rosetta Doune should become the bride of Dr. Laurient [; There would be lau snter for 10 league e about at such wedding. So she resign d ed herself without anger, without bitter V ness, cOntented, when alone, to lamen Il silently her vanished dream, her castl of cards fallen to the earth.
 She became pale and languid. He relations sought in vain to discover tn S cause of the strange malady that lay S heavily upon her. To all their question she said:
 "A ''It is nothing-only little indispo 1t sition-''
 The Dounets, however, consulted tn most celebrated physicians of the region
 None of them could discover the caus of the trouble.
 But some good country friend ha > been behind Paolo and Rosetta at th ,, time when they made their pledge (
 love. Father Dounet was at last il
 formed of their betrothaL It was { .. him like a flash of light. He knew no :" what ailed Rosetta He knew, and |
 could bring the remedy.
 At dawn he harnessed his mare, a e. tached her to his old carriage and d. - parted in the direction of Ligny. 
 J. Ifyou are not in Ligny in three days. bewa
 of my anger. LAURENT.
 Such was the telegram that Paolo r
 ceived one morning. He knew his stel
 father we'll enough to understand tn
 he must obey him Evidently the O .. gentleman was in a rage, and it wou
 be imprudent to trifie with him. E ''on my faith, there is nothing but
 resign myself" he murmured "I mu
 return to my country"
 The next day he was in Ligny.
 "At last you are hereP exclaim'
 Father Laurient upon his arrival "B ] not of your own will The gentlem,