The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-09-11
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on the door each time Ii opened hopina
for the coming of new faces
New faces, the single distraction OF all
pleasure resortsl We go to dinner chiefly
to canvass the daily arrivals, to wonder
who they are, what they do and what they
think A restless desire seems to have
taken possession Of us, longing for pleas
ant tadventurcs, for friendly acquaintanccs.
perhaps for possible lovers. In this elbow
to elbow life our unknown neighbors be.
come of paramount importance. Curos-
ty is piquetl, sympathy ON the alert and
the social instinct doubly active.
We have hatrcds for week, friendships
for month and view all men with tho
special eyes of watering place intimacy.
Sometimes during an hours chat after
dinner, under the trees of the park, whore
ripples healing spring we discover men
OF superior intellect and surprising merit,
and month later have wholly forgotten
these new friends, SO charming at first
sight.
That evening" then, as on every even
ing, we awaited the appearance of unfa-
miliar faces.
There came only two, but very peculiar
ones, those of q man and womun-futhcr
and daughter. They seemed to have step.
ped from the pages of some weird legend,
and yet there was an attraction about
them, albeit an unpleasant one, that made
me set them down at once as the victims
OF sone~fatality.
The father was tall, spare, a little bent
with hair blanched white-too white for
his still young CONFERENCE.-THE in his
manner and about his person the sedato
austerity of carriage that bespeaks the
Puritan. The daughter was possibly some
ar nf,4 -l,.., a.
emaciated, her exceedingly pale counte-
nance bearing languid, splritless express
sion-one of those people whom We some.
times encounter, apparently too weak for
the cares and tasks of life, too feeble to
move or do the things that We must do
every day Nevertheless the girl WIS
pretty, with the ethereal beauty Of an ap-
partition 1t was she undoubtedly who camo
for the benefit of the waters.
They Glanced to be placed at tahlo i'm
mcdiately opposite to me, and / was not
long in noticing that the father, too, had
n strange atfcction-something wrong
about the nerves it seemed Whenever he
was going to reach for anything, his hand,
with jerky twitch, described n sort Of
fiuttering zig2ag before he was able to
grasp what he was after. Soon the motion
disturbed me SO much ! kept my head
turned in order not to sec IL, but not before
! had also observed that the Young Girl kent
her glove on her left hand while she ate
Dinner ended, went out as usual for a
turn in the grounds belonging to the cs.
tablishment, a sort of park / mirbt saw
stretching clear to the littlo stntion ~
Auycrgne Chatel -CIuyon. NESTING in a
gorge at the foot of the high mUWnt,in
from which flowed the sparkling. bnbhlip1
springs, hot from tho fIrnncc Of an an.
cient volcano. Beyond us there the domes
small extinct cratcrs. of which Chntel.
Guyon is the starting point raised tbcIr
scrrated heads above the long chain while
beyond the domes came two distinct rc.
gions, one of them necdlelite monks. the
other of bold, precipitous mountains
1t was very warn a mt evening and
cuntcntcd myself win uaciny TO and fro
under the rustling trees. gazing AT tho
and listening to the strains Of
the bund pouring from the casino, situat.
ell ON "A knoll that oycrlonksd tho cronnIs
Presently l perceived tho father md
daughter coning toward no ,,,ith ,ID,s
steps. | Bowed to them in tbat nIe,s,nt
fashion with which une al.
,yuvs salntcs bie bnt,,I cn,,,,'o,,i,,,, M
gentleman halted at once
Pardon me, sir" said he "but nov
ask if you can direct us TO a short walk.
easy and pretty If possibloyn
Certainly, " answered and 7 offered
to lead them myself to the valley tbrougb |
which the swift river flovs-a d,cn rsr.
row cleft between two rrrat drclivities
rocky and wooded '''0''
They accepted, and ms we walked We rat.
urally discussed The virtue of the mineral
waters. They had. ms I surmis.d cor,o
there ON his duurhter,s = srco,nt
'sShe has a strange mnlndy - said he
the seat of which her nbvsirions c,nrot ]
determine. She suffers from tho most In.
applicable nervous symptoms Sometimes
5hey declare her i'll of heart disease; some
times OF liver complaint, again Of u spi
lal trouble. At present they attribute
t to the stomach-that great motor and
'egulator of the body-this protoan dis.
'ase OF thousand forms, thousand
nodes of attack. 1t Is why we are here.
myself think 1t her nerves. In any case
I Is very sad.
This reminded ME of his own Jerking
land.
1t may be hereditary says l. Your
,wn nerves are u little disturbed, arc they
lotz
Miner he answered TRANQUILITY. Not
1t all. l have always possessed the calm.
st nerves. y Then suddenly, as If be.
himself:
For this touching his hand, "is not
lerves, but the result OF shock II terri.
lie shock that l suffered once. Fancy it,
ir. This child of mine has been buried
liye!'
l could find nothing to say. Twas dumb
With surprise.
Yes, " he continued, buried alive, but
ear the story-it is not long For some
ime past Juliette had seemed affected
'ith disordercd action Of the heart We
fero fully certain that the trouble was
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