Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-05-27


began to ask pardon, to kiss my hands,
spoke of his undying regard for me
and of his anxiety about you, for he
was your guardian, and finally decided
upon the only proper means, that Of,
for the time being, leaving you in
your self-chosen place of refuge. 1t
could be given out here that the
doctor had ordered change of air for
you. When Wollmeyer went out to
| telegraph to cousin, Len seized my
coat-collar and implored me to ask
for Gods sake to undertake nothing
| without her knowledge, before she
had talked with you in person. | hope
you will not yield to any romantic de
sires; the world is very gay, and you
are not one of those who can be
satisfied without anything else. Be.
sides-you must consider your moth
e1's health She will write to you.
Wollmeyer wanted to know the reason
for your aversion to BrankWitz. [
simply told him that this was not so
incomprehensible, that likes and dis
likes could not be sounded, in short.
you had said you did not live him.
He did not quite see through this.
evidently, for he shrugged his Shout
ders. Now, I have but to say to you,
my dear child, that | hope the matter
will be cleared up satisfactorily to
you. At least an armistice has been
attained.
81 will very gladly visit your dear
mother occasionally, but | cannot
hide the fact that I shall never again
interfere in this affair. Josephine will
have to make me camomile poultices
again; gall and liver are poor COM
panions for a heart such as mine is,
and I was seyenty-three two months
ago. I will give you this advice, re-
main true to your feelings; you are,
to be sure, a madcap, but your feel
/ ings are all right. Do not take cold,
| it is more like Siberia up there;
once froze my right ear on a sleighing-
party in the Thuringian Mountains
Give my love to old cousin, tell her
to take good care of you. My dear
Anneliese, a kiss and embrace,
From your old friend,
Henriette, Countess Won D.
The letter afforded me no con-
ISOLATION, it could not-on the con-
trary! The Countess wanted to hear.
nothing more of the matter, she for
sock me; Wollmeyer had insulted her,
! he had not given up the affair, he had
but deferred it. What remained but
by degrees to prepare for flight far
away into a strange land? But as
what? Mamma had taken me from
my studies, which / had been obliged
to give up on account of my illness
Yes, as what? I had passed no ex-
animation, and ali, it is SO difficult to
now as much as I once had at the
/ thought-but what availed it? |
would have liked to pursue the study
| of music; music had been my favorite
study. If I had not been left so
utterly in ignorance of the ways O..
life! So utterly alone, with no help
ing hand to grasp! I had no one be-
sides the old, uneducated, true-hearte |
woman.
Sad, dreary days followed. Ny
trunk arrived, with gowns and linen,
but no books had been sent me, nor
any music. I wrote for them, but re-
lceived no reply. I had always been
| in the habit of reading a great deal.
Papas library was at my service /
/ enjoyed practising, and / missed this
all very much.
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''library,' consisting of a couple Of
volumes of an illustrated periodical
and a collection of almanacs. Cousin
advised me to pay call at the pas
tors, surely there would find music,
books, and two young girls.
! I found the pastors wife and her
daughters believe five or six
busily engaged in sewing, the younger
ones knitting, and singing: "Es list Elm
Ros' entsprungen.
A strange sensation possessed me in
the midst of this coy family circle.
With a veritable thirst for happiness
and love I returned home. seated N.Y.
self upon the sofa, and sobbed long
/ ingly for papa.
Cousin, were but the fete over!
Last year it was nice, although |
| was i'll. lido not know how I shall
bear these days when one has great
er longing for a home, for some one
whom one loves. Where but these
days past, were everything but overt"
From mamma received letters now
and then, very reserved and filled with
phrases of which I had never heard
her make use. They impressed me as
if they had had to pass Herr Wolf
meyers censorship before they were
sent off. Not word from BrankwitZ,
but knew it was only an armistice.
Cousin tried, by means of all sorts
of trifing duties which she imposed
upon me, to divert me from my sad
thoughts, but was in no mood to
check them; | was constantly meditat-
ing some means of escape How
could I, in my distress, take an in
tereSt in Frau Hubner'S butter-tubs. in