The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-08
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in dress Still less so bis daughter,
Who had by this time absorbed the
peculiarities OF her French, German,
and Italian governess. Yet neither had
yet learned TO evade their nationality
or apologize for it.
Mr.. Maynard and his family remained
for three years in Europe. his stay hav-
ing been prolonged by political excite
menI in MS own state of South Caro-
lima. Commerce is apt to knock the
insulSrity out of people: distance from
ones own distinctive locality gives a
wider range to the vision, and the re-
tired merchant fOresaw ruin in his
states politics. and from the viewpoint
OF ali Europe beheld. instead of the
usual collection Of individual states, his
whole country But. the excitement in
creasing. he was finally impelled TO re
turn in the faint hope of doing some
thing 10 allay il. taking his wife with
him. but leaving his daughter at a
school in Paris. At about this time,
however, a single cannon shOt fired at
the national flag on Fort Sumter shook
the whole country, reVerbetrated even
liz Europe, sending some earnest hearts
back te do battle for state or country,
sending others less earnest into in
glorious exile, but. saddest of all,
knocking over the school bench Of the
girl at the Paris Pensionnat. For thar
shot had sunk Maynard's ships at the
Charleston wharves, scattered his piled
cotton bales awaiting shipment at the
ouays and drove him a ruined man
into the Home Guard" against his bet
ter judgment. Helen Maynard, like
good girl, had implored her father to let
her return and share his risks. But
the answer was ito wait until this
nine days madness of an uprising was
over. That madness lasted six years,
outIived Maynard. whose gray mis-
doubling head beat the dust at Balls
Bluff: outlived his colorless widow, and
left Nelly a penniless orphan.
Yet enough of her country was left
in her to make her courageous and in
dependent OF her past. They say that
when she got the news she cried
little and then laid the letter and what
was left of her last monthly allowance
in Madame Ablas lap. Madame was
devastated. But y2u-lInpoVeiishe
and desolate angel, What of yOu?" i
shall get some of il back" said the des-
olated angel with ingenious eandor,
for I speak better. French and English
than the other girls. and l shall teach
them until l get into the Conservatory,
for / have a voice. You yourself nave
told papa So" From such angelic di-
rectness there was no appeal. Madame
Ablas had a heart-more. she had
French manageress' discriminating in
stinct. The American schoolgirl was
installed in q teachers desk; her bosom
friends and fellow students became
her pupils. To some of the richest, and I
they were mainly Of her own country, /
she sold her smartest, latest dresses, /
Jewels and trinkets at q very good fig 4
are, and put the money away against F.!
the Conservatorie in the future. She /
worked hard she endured patiently /
everything but cOmmiseration. I'd /
have you know. miss, she said to Miss +
De Lame, daughter of the famous
house OF Muslin. De Lame & Co., OF /
New York. that whatever my position 4
here may be, it is not one to be patron
ICED by a tapeseiler's daughter. Ny
case IS not such a very sad. one thank
voul and I prefer not 10 be spoken of
as having seen better days by people
who haven't. THERE Don't rap your
desk with your pencil When you speak
TO me. or I shall call out Cash! be-
fore the whole class" SO regrettable
an exhibition of temper naturally
alienated certain of her compatriots
who were unduly sensitive Of their ORR
gin. and as they formed a considerable
colony who were then revelling in the
dregs Of the empire and the last orgies
Of a lettering court eventually cost her
her place.
A republican so aristocratic was not
cans who paid court to De Morny for
the phosphorescent splendors of St.
cloud and the Tuileries. and Mss Helen
Iost their favor. But she hal already
saved enough for the Conservative
md A little attic in q very tall house
n a very narrow street that trickled
rto The ceaseless flow Of the Rue La
savette. Here for four years Size trot-
led backward ana forward 10 her work,
With the freshness of youth and the
nfexible set purpose of maturity.
Here. rain er shine, summer or winter,
n The mellow season when the large
.afes expended under the white sun
shine into an overflow of little tables
IN the pavement, or when the red glow
Il the brasserie shone through frosty
,anes on the turned up collars OF
,inched Parisians who hurried by, she ]
Vas always 10 be seen
Half Paris had looked into her clear