Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-08-09
JGaliGS'S Love Letters.

Jeanne CampO6ll came OdCk IIOn
the tailor's shop where she worked,
and found a company of boys and
girls congregated round the door
step of the tall tenement house in
which she rented one small back
room. They were hOOting and
ieerlng at a man seated in his SHIT
sleeves on the doorstep placidly
smoking a huge German porcelain
pipe. The man did not seem in
tue least disturbed at their jeerS
aud shrieks, but smoked on with
bis eyes fixed upon the one strip of
sunset sky visible above the grimy
roofs.
Jeanie pushed her way in.
whats that matterP
'Yab-Dutchy! Tnt e a bloom
ing soft Give boy a shilling to
go and fetch IN something to eat,
and is witing 'ere for IN! Pot e a
stylel Wonder 'Ow long he'll wlteT
Who is heP
"a blooming Dutchy! e carnt
speak no English, e carnt-'as 10
mike signs-and nobody 'er CANT
speak nOthink else. Fnt q q
sOftSv
The girl paused, and look at the
man: there was something III his
patient attitude that aroused her
pity. Some softer remembrance
of the days before she came to
this great, wicked London came
over her. The mans eyes, so blue,
clear and bright, and the healthy
tlnge of his wholesome face, smOte
upon her with pang of recollec
ton of the honest Scottish faces
she had left with contempt for
their content, when she had started
forth 10 see life in London.
She went up to the man, aud
signed to him to follow herlndoOrs
She tried to make him understand
that he had been robbed. The soft
gentle tones that answered her
we're quite unintelligible; he smiled
shrugged his shoulders, spread bis
hands, and looked at her with thai
calm trustfulness one sees in dog
and children.
She smiled, nodded, pointed nj
the stairs, aud then ran out OF tn
house. She reformed with lOa
of bread and halt pound OF ssus
ages for him, and roll for herself
she would make that do; be was
stranger, alone and trlendless.
She put the things in his hand
pointing down the street as if t
Indicate that she had brought th
things from The boy. He seeme'
to understand, took her hand an
raised it to his lips; the action wa
30 simple, so grateful, that she fe
ashamed, and ran up the stairs
her own room.
her comfortless breakfast of
dry roll the next morning mad
, her a little regretful of her charit
the night before. 'He must shl
for himself as l have had to dc
she thought, and she went out
her days work.
! When she returned In the ev
p ming she found him standing on
side his door. He bowed an
s smiled, opened his door, al
showed his various purchases {
his table. He had evidently foul
his way round to shops.
She went up the stairs, feelir
the least little bit dIsappOint'
that he did not require her he
any more. He seemed d ffere
from the jaded, vulgar men al
women she came in contact with
her city lie. The air of The nel
seemed to cling TO him still. s
thought as she toiltd up the wea
stairs how sweet the country mu
be looking now. Was the 81
shining oD the hills at home al
making the waters of the 10
sparkIe-the bonnie hills that s
would never see sgaIni Frlen
were dead, aud to = tailoress
twelve shillings a week 1T VAS
= deed a far cry to Loch Awe.
ID Something was on her table,
little sketch OF Q sweep Of vi