Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-12-01

the blue sky; then, singing lightly.
she stopped, picked a narcissus and
fastened the white flowers in her
bosom, and then put her hand into
her dress pocket, and drew out some
thing which she put quickly into her
mouth, but which did not interfere
with her singing, for now as she went
on she trilled the words:
BATH, BATH, bel Masetto
la tua povera Zerlina.'
Il followed her slowly, and OBJ
served lying in the path a little object
wrapped in white paper, which she
had evidently lost. A bonbon Well,
that is the height of folly said /,
taking it up in vexation. One could
not expect anything different from
such bringing up And as l I'M
wrapped the thing, | found in it
French motto, more sugary and
frivolous one than which could
scarcely have been composed in the
time of Louis XIV, supposing tina,
bonbon notices were known at that
time. If Anna Mara knew of this,
with her pure, maidenly mind.'
thought, shaking my head. oh,
Klaus, for my part, | wish your bird
of paradise were in the moon, at any
rate not here l overlook her at the
next turn of the path, where there
was a red thorn in the spfendor OF
full bloom; it bent it's branches al
almost humbly under this supra
bundance of rosy adornment az which
Susanna was looking admiringly.
oh, how charming she cried, as
| she saw me. oh, how wonderfully
beautiful And the purest joy shone
! from her eyes. How did that accord
with the bonbon motto?
I'm that moment l resolved not to
lose confidence in the girls character,
and at every opportunity to help lift
the young spirit into higher regions
have honestly striven to fulfil this
| promise. | may testify TO it to myself
not so violently, not in so dictatorial
and severe a manner as Anna Maria
did l proceed not like Klaus either.
All, me-Klaus! Those first eight
weeks in general All, if only knew
! how to describe the time which now
followed! There is so little to say,
and yet such an immense change was
| brought about in our house.
Whether Susanna Mattoni ever
! missed her old nurse, did not know.
When she awoke on that first morning
and found Anna Maria by her bed in
! stead of the little actress, to inform
her that the latter had left the house,
great tears had streamed from her
eyes. Anna Maria had said; BE
reasonable, Susanna, and do not make
a request that | cannot grant And
Susanna had replied, with an in
imitable mingling of childishness and
pride: Have no fear, Fraulein Won
Hegewitz, | never ask a second time!
Anna Maria told me about it later,
years afterward. Indeed, there was
no slight amount of pride in that little
head.
Anna Maria began the practical
education with the thoroughness
peculiar TO her in everything. With
her iron constitution. her need of
bodily activity, she had not suspicion
that there were people in the WORLD
for whom such activity might be too
much. Susanna had to go through
kitchen and cellar, Susanna was
initiated into the mysteries of the
great washing, and Susanna drove
with her, afternoons, in the burning
! int lie tn a.
the Agricultural botany. Anna Maria S
face showed a glimmer of happiness;
she now had some one to whom she
was Indispensable, so she thought.
And Klaus? Klaus had never in
mis- life sat so constantly in his room
as now; he went into the garden
parlor seldom or never, and only at
mcalimes came to look into the sit
ting-room or out on the. terrace. And
then his eyes would rest on Susanna
with a strange expression, anxiously
and compassionately it seemed to me.
He said not a word against Anna
Maria's management.
Aunt Rosamond, the latter said
sadly to me one day, 1 fear Susanna
being here is a burden to Klaus: he
! is quiet, depressed, and not at all as
he use to be-
Why that cause, Anna Maria p
said |. Klaus does seem out of
humor, that is true, but may it not
be something else? Farmers have a
new cause for vexation every day, and
are never at loss for one
All, no, Aunt Rosemond' she
replied. There has not been the pros
pect of such harvest for years: it is
a pleasure to go through the fields
And Susanna, the breath of whose
life was laughing? She wandered
about like a dreamer How often,
when she sat opposite me in the sew
ing-room, her hands dropped in her
lap, and she went to sleep. like an
overweary child. And | let her sleep,
for on the pale little face the marks
of the unwonted manner of life were
only too perceptible. Once Klaus
came into the room, as she sat there,
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