Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-07

In AndreiS he saw all the powers of
youth and wealth concentrated in ono
who merely used them for careless
enjoyment and a thoughtless good
nature which seemed to himself as
senseless as the dance in the sun of an
amorous negro. Andreis and tho
whole OF his family had shown him the
utmost gratitude, liberality and con-
sideration, and the young prince bore
from him good-humoredly sarcasms and
satires which he would not have sup
ported from an emperor; but Damer in
his turn felt for the Sicilian and his
people nothing but the contempt of tho
great intellect for the uncultured mind,
the irritation of the wise man who sees
a child gayly making a kite to divert
itself out of the parchments ola treatise
IN an unknown tongue which, studied,
might have yielded up to the student
the secret of persisted creeds and of
iost nations. There is no pride so ar
rogant, no supremacy so unbending,
as those of the intellect. 1t may stand,
IKE Belisarius, beggar at the gate;
but, like Belisarius, it deems itself tho
superior of all the crowds who drop
their aims to it, and while it stretches
out its hand to them its lips curse
them.
II wish l had lived when this collar
was ncw," Veronica I.aranirra said.
when her jewellers returned TO her tho
opals restored to their pristine bril-
liancy. Life in Venice was one long
fiesta then. have read OF IL. II was
all masquo and scrcnaGc end courtship
and rangninccncc, reo. were not
philosophical about IL t,,cn; they
liv"d-Minn Laranigr;s y,;.s Il beautiful
woman. They have her portrait in
the Belle Ar:e. 1t is by Lucchi. She
holds Il rose To her lips and laughs.
She was killed by her husband for an
&s2"Gr She had these opals on her
threat when he drove the stilctto
through it. At least SO Carlo used 30
tell nc. Dat perhaps it vas not truc."
do cot wear them" said An.ircis,
to whom she was speaking. "Do not
wear them If they are blood-staincd.
ton know they are p!erres dc rlaLaeur."
She laughed.
LOU titiiuhS arc SuptTStlliOuS. we
northerncrs are not. l like to wear
them for that very reason of their trag-
edy."
She took up the necklace and clasped
it round her throat; some tendrils of
her hair caught in the clasp; she gave
an involuntary little cry of pain; An
dreiS fastened to release her hair from
the clasp. His hand trembled; their
eyes met, and said much to each other.
Damer, who was near, drew nearer.
She was silent, looking at him with
that mixture of curiosity, interest and
vague apprehension which he always
aroused in her. She was not very in
telligent, but she had quick susceptible
tiles; there was that in him which
alarmed them and yet fascinated them.
''lIe awes me-" she said later in the
day to Andrcis. $50 often one cannot
follow his meaning, but one always
feels his reserve of power"
1t was a grave speech for light
hearted lover of pleasure. Andreis
heard it with vexation, but he was
loyal to the man who had saved his life.
ale is Il person of great intellect"
he answered; 1--WE are pigmies beside
him. But"
"But what?"
ale used his brains to save my body.
So must not dispute the virtue of his
use of them. But sometimes l fancy
that he has no heart. / think all the
forces in him have only nourished his
mind, which is immense. But his
heart, perhaps, has withered away,
getting no nourishment. lie would
say l talk nonsense; but 1 think you
will understand what mean"
Il think / understand, said Veronica,
thoughtfully.
She had thought very little in her
careless young life. She had begun to
think more since these two men had
come into 1t.
"Andreis merits more than you give
him." said her ducnna to her. Glow
long will You keep him in suspense?
You ought to remember what hell it is
in waiting to abidc.'"
"a help" said Veronica, with the
color in her face. "You mean para
disc"
"a FOOLS paradise, fear" replied
the elder woman. "And what does
that other man do here? He told me
he was due at some university in Ger
many"
'low can tell you why either of
them stays?" said Veronica, disingcnu-
ously, as her conscience told her.
"Vcnice allures many people, especial
ly in her spring season."
$50 does a woman in her spring."
said the elder lady, dryly, with an i'm.
patient gesture.
'You are angry with me-"
mo, my dear 1t is as useless to be
angry with you as to be angry with a
young cat because in its gambols it
breaks vase of which it knows moth
ing of the preciousness."