Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-23

And about what else"
 Max spread out his hands, with a shrug, but passed the question by. "So much truth, in fact, that 1t would have served amply for at least two letters" he remarked, returning to his own spe- cial point of complaint.
 Marie might we'll amuse the easy go- ing yet observant and curious young man. He loved to watch his fellow creatures under the stress of feelings from which he himself was free and found in the opportunities afforded him in this line the chief interest both of his life and of his profession.
 But Marie had gradually risen to a high, nervous tension. She was no puritan. Puritans were not common in Kravonia nor had Paris grafted such slip on to her nature Had she thought as the men in the palace thought when they smiled, had she thought that and no more. it is scarcely likely that she would have thus disturbed herself. After all, such cases are generally treated as in some sense outside the common rules. Exceptional allowances are, in fact. whether properly or not, made for exceptional situations. An other feeling was in her mind, an ob- session which had come almost wholly to possess her. The fateful foreboding which had attacked her from the first had now full dominion over her. Its rule was riveted more closely on her spirit day by day as day by day the prince and Sophy drew closer together. Even that Sophy had once saved his life could now no longer shake Marie's doleful prepossession. Unusual and un, looked for things take color from the mind of the spectator. The strange train of events which had bro1ght So- phy to Praslok borrowed ominous shad- ows from a nervous, apprehensive tenn perament
 No such gloom brooded over Sophy. She gave herself up to the hour-the past forgotten. the future never thought of. It was the great time of her life. Her feelings. while not less spontane- ous and fresh. were more mature and more fully satisfied than when Casimir | de savres poured his love at her feet. A cry of happiness almost lyrical runs ! through her scanty record of these | days. There was little leisure for diary or letters.
 Winter was melting into spring. snow dwelled only on the hilltops, Lake Talti was unbound and sparkled in the sun. The days grew longer. yet were far too short. To ride with him 10 Volseni, to hear the cheers, to see the love they bore him, to watch him at work, to seem to share the labor and the love then 10 shake Off the kindly clinging friends and c to a mountain path or wander, the .ns on the horses necks. by the margin of the lake and come hor,a through the late dusk. talking often. silent often. always together ia thought as in bodily presence-was not this enough: If 1 had 10 die in month should owe life a tremendous debt already" That is her own sum ming up. It is pleasant to remember.
 It would be enough to ssy-love; enough with s nature ardent as hers. Yet with love much else conspired There was the thought of what she had done. of the things 10 which she was a party. There was the sense of power. the satisfaction of ambition. a promise of more things. There was the ap- plause of vOlseni as well as the devO- ti0a of the prince. There was. too-it persisted all through her life-the fun ny. half childish and. to a severe eye. urchinlike pleasure in the feeling that these were fine d0ings for S0phy Crouch of Morpingbam. in Essex! aFancy me-' Is the indefensibly primi- i've form in which this delight shows in one of the few letters bearing date from the castle of Praslok.
 Yet if Is possible to find this simple. gracious surprise at fortunes fancies worthy Of love. Her own courage. her own catching at fortunes forslOck, seemed to have been always uncgn. seious and fnstinctive. These she new CT hints at nor even begins to analyze. Of her love for the prince sbe speaks l Cnce or twfce and once in reference 0 what she had felt for Casi1nir- T lovel him most when he left me and wbea | he liei.~ she writes T love hiu not | Iess nov because I love uO1seiZ1elr. t but can love moz@iEneIr more foT having loved Cssimfr. Cod bade the desr ds4d de. but be bsde ne live. and ] dsath ksiPed to tszch ne hOu to d0 IL '