The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-09-09
coNcLrnEp FhoN PAas 2.

CONCLUDED FROM PAGE =
,arriase, and all the evening in her arm
chair close to the fire, and never gees
any one but her own people, her corn
plexion matters very little.
''She has the handsomest suite of
rooms in the hotel. My bedroom is in
side hers, the sweetest room-all blue
satin and white lace-white enamelled
furniture, looking glasses on every
wall, till know my pert little profile
as i never knew it before The room
was really meant for Lady Ducayne's
dressing room. but she ordered one OF
the blue satin couches to be arranged as
bed for me--the prettiest little bed
which / can wheel near the windows on
sunny mornings, as it is on castors and
easily moved about. feel as if Lady
Oucayne was funny old grandmother,
Who had suddenly appeared in my life,
very, very rich, and very, very kind.
''She is not at all exacting. I read
aloud to her good deal, and she dozes
and mods as | read. Sometimes ! hear
Ier moaning in her 81 leep-as If she had
troublesome dreams. When she is tired
Of my reading che orders Francine, her
maid, to read French novel to her,
and hear her chuckle and moan now
and then, as if she were more interested
n those works than in Dickens or Scott.
Ay French is not good enough to fol-
ow Francine, who reads very quickly.
lady Ducayne often tells me to run
away and amuse myself; roam about
the hills for hours. Everything is so
.ovely. lose myself in olive woods,
always climbing up and up towards
tho pine woods above, and above the
Tines there are the snow mountains
shat just disclose their white peaks
above the dark hills.
'Oh, you poor dear, how can 1 ever
make you understand what this place is
iks-you, whose poor, tired eyes have
pnly the opposite side of Berssford
STREET. Sometimes go no farther than
Ehs terrace in front Of the hotel, which
81 favorite lounging place with every
1ody. The gardens lie below. and the
asnnis courts where I sometimes play
With very nice girl, the only person in
tha hotel with whom l have made
friends. She is a year older than ].
and has come to Cap Ferrino with her
mother, a doctor or medical student.
Who is going to be doctor. He passed
lis NIB. exam. at Edinburgh Just be-
iore they left home, Lotta told me.
Ia came to Italy entirely on his sisters
pccount. She had troublesome chest
stack last summer, and was ordered to
winter abroad; quite alone in the
sorld, and so fond of each other. 1t is
sery nice for me to have such friend
"a Lolita. She is thoroughly respecta-
de. can't help using that word. for
ome of the girls in this hotel go on in
. way that / know you would shudder
It Lotta was brought up by an aunt,
leep down in the country, and knows
hardly anything about life. Her brother
Won't allow her to read novel, French
r English, that he has not read and
approved.
".He treats me like child. she
old me, but don't mind, for it's nice
o know somebody loves me- and cares
lbout what l do, and even about my
.houghts.'
"Perhaps this is what makes some
sirls so eager to marry-the want OF
'ome one strong and brave and honest
nd true to care for them and order
hem about. 1 want no one. mother
!arling, for have you, and you are all
no world to me. No husband could
-.Fer come between us two. If / ever
we're to marry he would have only the