The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-02-01


u or jealous deniZen OF another
Ee359F portion of our country who,
l.sfzz29 knowing that the room in the
wooden cupola over Mr.. Carewe's IL
brary was commonly alluded to by
Rouen as the ''tower chamber" will
prove himself so sectionally prejudiced
as to deny that the town was verita-
BILE hotbed Of literary interest OF that
Sir Walter Scott was ill appreciated
there? Some Of the men looked sly and
others grinned at mention of this apart
ment, but the romantic were not lack
ing who spoke Of it in whispers-how
the lights sometimes shone there all
night long and the gentlemen drove
away, white faced, in the dawn. The
cupola, rising above the library, over
looked the garden, and the house, save
for that, was of single story, with a
low Veranda running the length of it's
front The windows Of the library and
of row of bedrooms, one Of which
was Miss Bettys lined the veranda
steamboat fashion, the inner doors of
these rooms all opening upon a long
hall which bisected the house. The
stairway leading to the room in the
cupola rose in the library itself, while
the bisecting hall afforded the only ac-
cess TO the library; hence the gossips,
we'll acquainted with the geography Of
the place, conferred seriously together
upon what effect Miss Betty's home
coming would have in this connection,
for any one going to the stairway must
needs pass her door, and, what was
more to the point, a party of gentlemen
descending late from the mysterious
turret might not be so quiet as they in
tended and the young lady sufficiently
disturbed to inquire of her father what
entertainment he provided that should
keep his guests until in the morning.
But at present it was with the op-
posite end of the house that the town
was occupied, for there workmen were
hammering and saving and painting
all day long finishing the addition Mr..
Carewe was building for his daugl-
ter's debut. This hammerlng disturbed
Miss Betty, who had become almost as
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with her mantua maker, for she had
found in her fathers library many
books not for convent shelves. and she
had become Girondin.
She found memoirs, histories and
tales of that delectable period, and for
week there was no meal in that house
to which she sat down earlier than half
an hour late. She had rightful prop
erty interest in the revolution, her own
great-uncle having been one of those
who suffered, not, however, under the
guillotine, for to Georges Meilhac ap-
pertained the rare distinction Of death
by accident on the day when the bust
nesslike young Bonaparte played upon
the mob with his cannon.
There were some yellow letters of
this great-uncle's in a box which had
belonged to her grandmother, rich
discovery for Miss Betty, who read and
reread them with eager and excited
eyes, living more in Paris with Georges
and his friends than in Rouen with her
father. Indeed, she had little else to
do. Mr.: Carewe was no comrade for
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saw him, except at the table, when he
sat With ayerted eyes and talked to her
very little, and, While making elaborate
preparation for her Introduction to his
friends (sucl was his phrase), he treat
ed her with a perfunctory civility
which made her wonder if her advent
was altogether welcome to him, but
when she noticed that his hair looked
darker than usual about every fourth