Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-11-14

Last piteouSly resigned themselves
Well, my dear fellow, l have thought
seriously about ito escape from
that fatal future, / can see no better
way than to accept the old custom OF
our fathers"
All! all" said Fabrice.
Perfectly" said Pierre; marriage.
Mon dieu! Marriage has certainly its
inconvenience, it's sadnesses and its
can be found for young man TO grow
old and to die honestly under his
/ white hair
The painter took long breath with
out answering.
Il beg pardon" said Pierre. This
subject is distressing TO you. should
not nave forgotten that"
My personal experience in that re
gard is very sad, assuredly," said the
painter; but that slgnlnes nothing
1 made a foolish marrlage-besides,
regret nothing since l have my daugh-
| ter"
Exactly" SAID Pierrepont. "4ou
lave your dauSnLer-I nIgnt also nav
one, ana even d son. lneSe are The
affections, the distractions which
nevertheless Tear Il mau away nom
the exclusively eternal feminine pre-
occupations, and which sned d benign
grace over the ripe age Oh lie. Inc
sight OF stu young father walking
happily with his children III the morn
ing is pretty sight. In snort, what DO
ou want, NY dear! lUu s1u4u4Ie 4uy
odndOr-Dut l nave a vague desire 10
love, once III my life, an honorable WO-
man"
The eyes of the painter were re-
moved from The drawing Tor an III
slant and hxed, WIN slightly as
Conished look OF sympathy, upon the
handsome features OF the Marquis.
In short" said he, you WISH TO try
in another way; you wish to know IL
| by chance there does not exist kind
of love of a quality superior to that
which we call the Partisan article?"
Exactly"
well, what do you lack to realize
| that honorable dream?
A woman" said Pierre.
| But it seems to me, that with your
name, your relations, your prospects
and your personal attractions, if |
may thus express myself, you could
find such a woman when you wish"
mo, not when l wish; but when my
aunt wishes"
| Have you not told me that your
aunt wishes you to marry as soon as
possfble?"
"The richest possible" said the
Marquis, with a slight leaning toward
bitterness. my aunt pretends that
marriage is a pure lottery, one must
assure ones self of the dowry and
trust to luck for the rest. That is not
entirely my opinion, you understand
me, besides | am not so situated that
l can disdain an income. but I would
| rather that the woman whom I should
marry offer me some other guarantees
! of happiness and honor, even excep-
tiOnal guaranties-youk know how girls
are schOoled nowadays. It is frightful
That is why my marriage, which we
desire, my aunt and I, remains very
problematicaI Apropos, when will you
come to Genets? My aunt asked me in
her last letter, when she could count
on your
Con the fifteenth of August, l shall
be at liberty and subject to your
orders"
Bravo! You have never seen my
aunt, have your"
Never, not even in my dreams, -
said the painter
Il have told you, I believe, that she
! would be somewhat a portrait, l said
almost an ingrat-"
81 shall try to sketch it."
"You shall have it, finally, With
more merit. Au revoir!"
And they parted.
CHAPTER II.
Fahrice.
Is there in the special art of the
FAINTER, in his slightly clustered and
solitary life, in his perpetual search
for certain superior beauty, some
secret virtue which tends to elevate
his moral nature? l do not know, but
it seems to me that one finds in the
artists studio, more often than else
where, those grave and tender souls
those simple hearts, upright anC
proud, which form one Of the most at
tractive types of human nature. With
out generating more than to note
this observation, do not believe there
exist in the world more noble souls
than those of some artists known t.
me.
Jacques abrice was of the
most humble origin. His father, whC
was an under-employe in one of tht
mairies of Paris, died young, afte
having done all in his power to dis
courage his sons precocity for the ar
of design. His mother worked at homt
for a flower store; endowed with ;
most delicate instinct, she secretly in
terested herself in the tastes Of he
child Living alone with him, she wa
quick in discovering all the kinds o
! artistic teaching that Paris offered L
the poor, and put her son in way t
: profit by them.
/ Toward his fifteenth year, Jacque
; | undertook, in order to defray in par
his axnenSes 10 Daint signs durin