Year: 1873

and painting, general literature and mathe
matics"


"Why certainly, my child-as a matter o
course. I am glad to have you resume YOU
studies. Could 1 have had my way, you would
be schoolgirl now, instead Of mother
You have lived too fast. I know how CRATE
full Albert will be to hear in what an improv
ing manner you are passing your time, fol
he, too, thinks ignorance is the curse O.
God."


His appreciation is nothing to me-" sale
Florimond. II wish to learn entirely for the
sake of my child"


"Perchance so," said her grandmother
"but do not endeavor to persuade me any
longer that you care nothing for Albert Thai
passionate outburst the other day has quite
settled my opinion"


II shall yet prove to you, beyond doubt
that do not care that for him. and Flori
mond snapped her fingers emphatically.


The very next day DR.. De Witt began hi
instructions to Mrs. cambridge, and continued
them without intermission for nearly two
years. Florimond was covetous acknowledge
and was enthusiastically bent on gaining in
formation on all subjects. She had, indeed
passionate earnestness of nature, and al in
satiable ambition to succeed in every thing she
undertook, all of which rendered her an ad
mirable pupil. Moreover, being fully aware
of her deficiencies, she was fully determined
to make amends for them. Pupils other age
feel the Importance of study, and know how
to study-two important requisites, which We
never learn in earlier life. Having no house
hold cares, and free from all pecuniary OF
harassing trials which poorer mortals endure
she had nothing to do but study, and she did
nothing but study; her mind unfolding and
developing day by day like some beautiful
flower, opening to receive the light of the sun
and the dew of heaven. Asregarded her hus
band, things went on in thesame old way. She
never wrote line to him during the two
years, nor he to her; nor ever did be mention
her name in those letters which he sent by
flag of truce to Mrs. Summerville. The little
Berta was now lovely, healthy child, who
prattled all the day, and devised all sorts OF
mischief, and fascinated all hearts with her
winning grace and beauty. With her child
and her books, two fruitful sources Of interest
and contentment the rapid moments fled on
golden wings for Florimond. She was almost
happy, only-but you know human happiness
has always one drawback. However, it were
we'll for poor Florimond that she could enjoy
this period of her life; for Notwithstanding the
shadow of alienation now resting over her,
this shadow was so light, compared to other
shadows which will darken her pathway, that
out of the darkness she will look back to these
days, as days rich in happiness and blessing
days which, if possible, she would gladly re-
call. Hardly so for poor Albert, who Ian
guished in confinement, and fretted, his soul
sick with anger and revenge toward his ene'
mics, toward his wife, toward all the beauti'
full outside world from which he was debarred,
and this hateful inside world of discordant ell
ements, tedious monotony and unspeakable
disgust. He pined for home and its pleasures,
for the society of the refined and congenial,
for the beauty of woman's face, for the sweet,
ness of woman's voice, and for that richest
of all earth's blessings to one deprived of its
joyment-Freedom!