Year: 1878

pioyment, Duti nearing ne cOulu OBTAIN
commission in the Persian army, he
pushed for that country to join the SER
vice. Finding, on reaching his new
and singular destination, that there was
prospect for little fighting and less pay,
he returned to France and proceeded at
once to Boulogne, determined to lay bis
heart and his fortune at the feet of bis
lovely charmer, though every relative
of his opposed. But when he sought
her out and laid siege to her heart, he
learned that a low-bred pumpkin had
ALREADY got the consent of her parents
to make her bis wife, against her earnest
protestations. This unexpected revela-
tion infiamed him with jealousy and
rage. But when he, with all the ardOr
of first love, besought her to fly speedily,
fly from her unreasonable parents and
hated afiianeed, and with him seek the
shores Of fsr-off America where caste
was unknown, and where women are
not compelled to form matrimonial alli-
ances against their wishes, she stoutly
refused, but assured him that she
was fully determined to flee to a con-
vent and devote her life to religion
rather than be the wife Of him she
hated; nor could she consent to ally
herself with any one and be frowned
down upon by his aristocratic relatives.
II he would get his peoples consent to
their union, she would be but too happy
to aceede to his solicitations. He
heartlessly accused her Of duplicity, and
she indignantly resented the imputa-
tion, and thus they parted, he to brave
the dangers Of the sleepless Atlantic,
and she to continue to plod on in her
lOwly sphere. At length he met an ac-
quaintance in far-oG America who told
him that his hearts idol had crossed
the ocean with him, and he had parted
with her and her husband in New York
some weeks before, but knew not where
they were intending to locate. He
spent months in searching for her from
city TO city. At last he espied her pen
oAfNAN HA1AAEAtAnAAlE Win a AG1AlAuuauAN
dressed man whom he rightly judged to
be her husband. The sight of him re-
kindled the burning flame in her bosom,
aud the sight of her crazed him with
jealousy. He threw himself in their
way. She recognized him at once, and,
throwing herself in his arms, submitted
TO his passionate embraces aud returned
his fervid salutes. Her escort looked
on in amazement while this ludicrous
scene was being enacted, but took no
measures to stop it. The first excite
ment over, she turned upon her husband
and administered such a rebuke as only
a wronged woman can give.


"Here is the man whom you reported
dead that you might win me for yours.
Begone from my sight" she said, "for
henceforth the very thoughts Of you to
me will be intolerable"


But when Tabeau imploEed her to
take steps for a legal separation from
her husband and yet become his wife,
she only answered by pleading with
him not TO tempt her, that she could
not wrong her conscience thus; and she
forthwith applied and was accepted as a
novice in a neighboring convent, and,
like hundreds Of the fairest and most
amiable Of her sex in this aud other
lands, sacrificed her love and nature
committed social suicide, aud buried
herself within the gloomy walls Of one
Of the prison-houses Of the dark ages
while he acted hut little more wisely
by shaking the dust Of civilization from
his feet and sought to drown his sor
rows among the wild men of th,
prairies.


After hearing the old mans story
ceased to wonder at his abstraction anC
stoicism, and, although l could ode
him no encouragement nor consolation
1 really wished that could tear hin
away from his uncOngenial associa
tions, unlock the doors that shut ou
from her the cheering light Of heaven
and see them, as heaven evidently in
tended, happy in the enjoyment of eact
other.


To be continuedl