WHOLE NUMBER 1792. .
From Temple Bar.
The Princes of Asnellos.
1.
“Mr. George Byrne 1’"
“That is my name.”
“I thought so; give me your hand, Mr.
George Byrne."
George gave his h and, seeing no reason to
refuse the request, albeit he could not re.
member having met this visitor before.
“I am glad to make your acquaintance,
George.” He held George’s hand firmly
while he spoke, and looked him full in the
face. “I like the look of you; no humbug,
no nonsense in you—that is, no more than
any may rationally expect to find in a young
man “as; 30.” Then, dropping his hand
with a final pressure, he looked around the
studio and said: “And this is your atelier,
eh ?” “““ . K
"I do not give it so fine a name." ~ N
“Your workshop, then; that is the mean-
ing of the word, as I understand it. You
don't draw much from the life, I see.”
“No, I am not a figure man.”
“Then you ought to be. You have some
idea of color, but you can’t draw, George—
that man is as bad as anything I have seen in
the Royal Academy, By the by, I saw alit-
tle canvas of yours there."
“I had five pictures rejected, and the only
fault I could find in them was that they were
not Welsh.”
“Forty-three Welsh and twenty-eight
Thames pictures in that exhibition—took
the trouble to count them.” The visitor
shrugged his shoulders and walked across
the room to look at a small panel on the
chimney-piece. “That’s better,” said he;
“there’s life there. You might have had that
in the Saloon. I should like to_buy that of
you, if it is not to dear."
“I shall be glad to sell it for five guineas.”
“I will have it.
couple of year’s time if you are the kind of
man I take you to be, and work steadily at
your profession-not as an amateur, but as
an artist. Do you mind my giving you a
little advico ?”
“Not at all.”
“Go to Paris, and have nothing to do with
Wales or the Thames for a few years.”
“I was thinking of running over to Ha-
vre.” .
“Havre—that’s near Srouville, isn’t it i‘"
“I believe so,” George said, growing rather
red. It had occurred to him in thinking of
his proposed expedition that he might see a
little life and gayety at the same time.
“The coast beyond is much prettier.
When you have passed the Orne, the clifis
become good and the country charming.
Asnelles is famous for pretty girls. I forgot
though—you are not a figure man. ”
George was half inclined to resent the visn
itor's freedom, halfziuclined to laugh at the
oddity of his position.
“May I ask where I have seen you before i”
he asked.
“When I saw you last you were in your
cradle, George, but I dont think you took
much notice of me, for you were chiefly in-
intercsted in a bottle at the time. How old
are you now ‘1’"
“Five-and-twenty."
“Five-and-twcnty! that makes close upon
fifty.”
“And will you tell me who gave you my,
address P”
“Your mother. I dare say you have heard
of an uncle named Richard Barton."
“My mother’s brothe i‘ Yes, I have heard
of him occasionally.”
“Not often, I warrant. His name would
be used perhaps to point a moral, but never
to adorn a tale. He was not a credit to the
family, for the family on your father’s side
was clerical to a man, and this Dick was a
loose vagabond with a taste for wit, who
would stand in the ways of such sinners as
Bob Brough, and Frank Talfourd and Plan-
che, and little Robsdn, and would not sit
where his uncles and cousins preached. Had
he kept up his connection with the family,
his cousin, your uncle Stephen, would never
have got his bishopric. He lived abroad for
twenty years, and never went near Tunbridge
until—the day before yesterday.”
“And you are he—”
“I am. I found everything as I expected
—a little older, but otherwise unchanged.
Your mother was just as sweet, and contra-
dictory, and womanly as ever, and Stephen
as a bishop no less priggish than Stephen as
a curate. I arrivedat the important moment;
a family council was being held, Your
mother was overjoyed to see me, and after a
brief explanation the rest of the family for-
gave me in a truly Christian spirit, and took
me into their congdence.
“It seems that your uncles intended you
for the church, and that your uncle Stephen
especially has devoted his energies to the
training of your mind. But, notwithstand-
ing'their endeavors, you have followed your
inclination and adopted a mode of life which
in their opinion cannot fail to result in your
ruin. Don’t snort George, and don’t stamp
- about the room like that. Sit down and lie-
ten to me.for I am sent as a kind of reformed
sinner to warn you by my experience against
the dangers of wilfulness, and win you back
into respectability,"
“You surely do not side with those—those
I!
“No, I do not side altogether with those
gentlemen. But I sympathize with your
mother, and think her feelings ought to be
considered. It is chiefly on her account that
I undertook this mission. It seems, George,
that you nearly broke the heart of a young
lady in Tunbridge."
“Oh, it stupld little flirtation. She found
another sweetheart the week after we separa-
ted, and I believe we are both heartily glad
the flirtation ended as it did.”
“Still I am led to believe that if strong
pmsure had not been brought to bear upon
her, through the mediation of the bishop and
her father, you would have married hef—al-
though she was only a draper’s daughter.”
"I know I was a fool."
“A man who has been a fool in Tunbridge
may as easily be foolish in London, and 1am
not astonished at your mother’s anxiety on
your behalf."
“I have given her my word of honor to
ally myself to nobody unworthy to be her
daughter. That should satisfy her. I have
never told a lie to her.”
“And I believe you never will, knowingly.
But remember, a young man is apt to over-
ratc the worth of the girl he loves—especial-
?! if he is a generous, honest young fel-
ow."
“I shall not get into a mess again. And
look here, Uncle Dick—why does mother
want me to return to Tunbridge, where I
have already been led astray 1’”
“Because she believes she has a counter-
sttraction that will keep you in the straight
path. She has a visitor, a young lady, whom
I believe she would like you to know-with
a view to marriage, as they say."
“Oh, I know the young lady before I see
her. A face like this”-—George executed a
rapid and not flattering representation of a
female face—“and feet like that !”
“No, George, pour portrait is clever, but
not true. I have seen the young lady, find
her head and feet are not in the least like
your drawing. She is pretty—at least I
think so."
“Oh, I know her-,—one of the Budge’s lot.
Fair and freckly, with as much brain as there
is in that plaster cast—a namby-pamby-ladi-
dflh- 011. hang ’em! I know ’em!”
“But her name is not Budge, and she's
neither fair nor freckly. Iam told she is do?
cidedly clever.”
“Clever girls always make me dulb’f
.
...—
It will be worth ten in a-
“But she is amusing, as you may conclude
when I tell you—though your mother does
not want the fact to come to your Uncle
Stephen’s ears—that she made quite a sense-
tion at Shecybournc by her acting in a
Charade.”
“Oh, heaven defend me from any girl who
thinks she can act 1”
“You are rather hard to please."
“The fact is I intend to have no passion
beyond my art, and I have resolved to live
and die a bachelor.” .
“This is bad news to take back to Tun-
bridge. I shall carry disappointment to
your uncle, your mother and her visitor. To
be sure it will be some consolation to your
mother to know that you were absolutely
proof against any kind of temptation that
presents itself.” Mr. Richard Barton’s face
was so serious that George could hardly be-
lieve him to be playfully sarcastic. “But
how can I lessen the mortification of her vis-
itor, who had been led to; suppose she would
make a conquest over you ?”
“By pointing out the fact that she would
have failed.” . .
“You think you could-have withstood the
influence of her wit and beautyi?” .
“I am certain of it.”
“I am not.”
“Will you be good enough to tell me who
she is i”
‘ She is my daughter, George.”
“Then no wonder she is irresistible,” said
George, with a sly laugh, for Uncle Dick,
with his shaven face, his large mouth, and
leaden skin was not beautiful to look at.
11.
At the end of the month George crossed
the Channel and landed at Havre. There
was nothing there to detain him, so, carry-
ing out his original intention, he went on to
Trouville. Trouville in May, with a strong
wind blowing from the east, is still less
agreeable than Havre. As he knew of noth-
ing better, why should he not go to
Asnelles and see what it was like ? He
journeyed to Caen and thence by rail to
Courseulles. There his courage began to
fail. Any place more wretched than Cour-
seulles, any people more repulsive than the
inhabitants, he had not yet seen on the coast
of Calvados, and he was rapidly approaching
his destination. To get to Asnelles he must
engage a ooifure particuliere. Rather from
the fervent desire to leave Courseulles than
in earnestness to reach Asnellcs, he ordered
a vehicle to be brought forth the following
morning, and went to bed in low spirits.
But in the night the wind dropped; the
air in the morning was soft and sweet, and
George took his seat beside the driver in the
ooituac particuliere—which was the simplest
cart that ever carried pigs to market—with a
slight accession of hope.
The horse was strong and active, the coun-
try improved with every foot of ground they
traversed, and the ooz‘feurier was gay and
communicative. He new Asnelles well, and
assured George that he would be pleased with
it. The women were certainly beautiful—real
country people. Monsieur could judge for
himself, for here was a woman‘of Asnellss
coming toward them with a cow.
George looked with some curiosity at this
representative. She might have been hand-
some once, but now innumerable wrinkles
covered her face, and her back was bent.
George objected to the hideous white bonnet,
shaped like a jockey’s helmet and worn over
a lblack |skull cap, beneath which a loop of
hair was brought down over each temple.
“I think you had better take me back to
Courseulles," said George, calculating that
he might be able to catch the midday train
to Caen.
The ooiturier was deem to refuse, but he
had an affair, touching the purchase of a pig
at Creully,which would prevent his returning
to Courselles.
George asked himself what he was to do
in a village where a lodging was not to be
had nor his wants made known, and was be-
ginning to fancy himself the victim of a
cruel practical joke, when his attention was
directed by his companion to a young woman
at some distance in front who was walking
across a patch of green clover with a cow——
it was a peculiar fact, noted later on by
George, that outside the village the people of
Asnelles were never to be seen except in the
company of cows.
“Look you,” said the ooiturier, “the pret-
tiest girl in Calvados.”
tance George was satisfied of that; straight,
and Well made, with a face tinted like a dog-
rose; shegwore the short, full, dark skirt of
the peasantry, knitted woolen stockings,
a white camisole with the sleeves well
turned up over her brown, shapely arms,
and to George’s inexpressible relief a hand-
kerchief upon her head in place of the hide-
ous Calvados cap.
She led her cow by a chain to a fresh pas-
ture, and then, having fixed the peg attached
to the chain in the ground, she took up a
heavy mallet with a handle four feet long,and
swinging it round, drove the peg into the dry
earth with a couple of blows.
“My faith! she has the talent l” exclaimed
the ooiturzer, with admiration. George was
too deeply interested in the girl to pay atten-
tion to his companion. She had thrown down
the mallet,and with a sharp turn that whisked
her short petticoats aside and gave a fair view
of her neat ankles and pretty,‘well-shod fact,
she walked off briskly to fetch a milking-
stool and a round brazen vessel That stood a
little distance away. A more graceful, sup-
ple figure, a better carriage, a more pictures-
que costume, George never had seen, even on
the boards of a theatre. She had her back to
the road, and they were now in a line with
her; he wished she would turn her face, that
he might see her features.
The same desire must have animated the
caiturt'er, for at that' moment he gave the
whip a vigorous crack, causing her to'look
over her shoulder. For a moment she fixed
her eyes upon them, her curiosity naturally
excited by the appearance of a stranger at
this early time of the year, and then, as the
ooiturzhrphecking his horse and taking of! his
hat, ventured in the most polite terms to wish
her good day, she gave her head a disdainful
toss and walked away to her stool.
“What do they call her i” asked George.
“Many names, monsieur—‘thc cruel,’ the
‘proud,’ ‘the Princess of Asnelles,’ are among
her titles."
“Then she lives in Asnelles i”
“In the pretty house over there, with the
respectable peru'ennes to the windows, and
the manure heap and the cowshed quite re-
moved from the kitchen."
“But you spoke to her in Frcnc ."
“0h, she has received a grand education.
She is considerably educated and can write
as well as read. She disdains to talk the
patoie except to the servants and the old peo-
ple.” .
“Has she parents 1’” _
“A mother, monsieur, who is very devout
and never fails to attend the mass. But look
monsieur can see Asnelles now if he will give
himself the pains to turn his head,"
He felt now better prepared to grapple
with difficulties of the situation. He was at
Asnelles, and there he must rest. If no
one could give him shelter, or interpret his
language in the village. he must go up to
the pretty house and throw himself upon
the 89116103“! 0f the princess’s devout moth
er.
But it happened that the epioar spoke-
French, and, hearing what he wanted, at
once offered him the use of an apartment,
and promised to provide him with food, at-
tendant and all that was necessary, for fif-
peen francs a week;
And she was a pretty girl—even at a dis.
NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1882.
Hi.
Artists are not as other'men. As a fruitcr.
er surveys the proportions of a perfect
peach without feeling any temptation to dig
his teeth into it, or as a florist looks over his
garden with no desire to pick the blooms or
bury his nose in the fragrant bosoms of his
roses, so an artist regards his pretty model
with an appreciative eye for her perfection
of form and color, but confines his feelings
within the strict limits of his sesthetic busi-
ness, and never suffers from the contingent
emotions which bewilder less cultivated
minds under like conditions. If it were
otherwise an artist could no more succeed in
painting a beautiful women than a fruiterer
could sell his damaged fruit or a florist his
faded flowers. ‘
He worked hard. The odor of herrings,
and soaps, and candles and coffee that arose
from the epieerfe was unnoticsabls when
you came near George’s room, so powerful,
not to say foul, was the reek of mastic and
turpintine that escaped from his canvasses.
There were, at least, eight “studies” before
the end of June in which the subject was
that one pretty girl of Asnelles. In “A Girl
and a Cow,” “Going-a-Milking,“ and “A Vil-
lage Beauty,” use portrait is unmistakable.
The second of these was an admirable
picture. The princess is seated upon a
donkey between two wooden panniers carry-
ing the large round-bodied brass vessels in
which the milk is collected; she is knitting.
The face and pretty feet, and knitted wool-
len stockings, are rendered with great fideli-
ty and delicacy. The latter works are less
good—indeed, the last three—“Waiting,"
“Adieu," and “The First Tear”—are shock-
ingly bad.
“And why shonld I not make studies of
the princess ? She is a willing sitter,"—-her
smiling portrait showed that. “If it is an
artist's object to seek beauty and copy it,
why, having found it, should he give over
copying it before his subject is exhausted f”
George asked himself, . in reply to certain
questions which conscience was beginning to
put to him.
He did not think she cared very deeply for
him; but he admitted that he could not quite
understand her. She was capricious and
changeable as a spring day. At',one time she
was impulsive, at another reserved; some-
times she was arch and winning, sometimes
coy and teasing; often she was heavy, dull
and irrespoasive; often by word and action
she betrayed an intelligence of a high order.
She was never two days alike, either in the
expression of her features or the mood of
her mind. Certainly those bad pictures
were founded upon facts in the history of
their acquaintance. Coming by an unex-
pected path, he had found her craning her
neck and standing upon tiptoe to look over a
hedge and down the road, One day they
parted in a little quarrel, and he, returning
to make a generous confession of his fault.
found- the traces of tears upon her long dark
lashes; and afterward, when he said by mis«
her eyes had opened wide, her lips fallen,
and her face assumed an appearance of in-
eflable grief and surprise. But no serious
sentimental scenes had been enacted. There
had been no kissing—and this was due to the
activity of the princess in avoiding his em-
brace, rather than to any backwardness on
his part—and there was nothing which called
upon him as a man of honor to leave
Asnelles and the princess at ones. So he
lingered on; and the morning meeting was
earlier,and the evening'parting: later and lon-
ger, and she grew less coy and provoking,and
when he put his arm about her, she put her
nand on his to remove it from her waist, but
let it stay there, and only hung her pretty
head when he kissed her.
After that, George painted worse than
ever, and suffered from a severe attack of
conscience.
Conscience said emphatically, “You must
marry the princess or go and leave her for
another to make happy. ”
The idea of leaving her for another man to
'marry was hard to entertain. For himself
he felt that he could never find so lovable a
girl, never meet any one who could revive
the sweet delightspf the past few weeks
with the princess. The suffering he must
endure was terrible to think of. Where could
he find another place so charming as An-
selles ? Would not Paradise itself be as a
howling wildernesss without the princess,
with the recollection of her sweetness and
beauty and the reflection that the other man
was making her happy.
But he had given his solemn promise to
his mother not to marry a wife beneath his
position, and he had repeated the vow to
Uncle Richard. He boasted of never having
told a lie; but the question occurred to him,
What is my position ? In what am I supe-
rior to the princess ? and then he began to en-
tertain views with regard to rank identical
with those of Robert Burns,but diametrically
opposed to those of his uncle, the bishop.
That line old conservative would have shud-
dered at the republican principles that we‘re
rapidly gaining root in the mental part of his
degenerate nephew.
_ George came to the conclusion. after a deal
of thinking, that it would be no violation of
his promise if he did marry the princess,pro-
vided [she was respectably .connected and
faithful in :her love. With regard to her
love he had no misgivings, but her family
connections were open to speculation.
He had seen Madame de Beni but once,
and from her behavior on that occasion he
had come to the conclusion that she was to
put it mildly, folle ; a conclusion which was
justified by what he afterward learned. She
had but one though t, and that was her relig-
ious duties; her domestic affairs and those
of her farm she left to the direction of the
princess—Marie. She seemed unconscious of
everything else, and put no kind of restraint
upon her daughter. She was still handsome;
but her forehead was disfigured by a scar,
which suggested the cause of her intellect-
ual weakness, George pitied her and thought
that perhaps his uncle might regard her in
the same Christian spirit, forgiving her ex-
cessive Romsnism on account of her demen-
tia being the result of an accident. He
wished heartily that other members of the
family had been equally worthy of tender
consideration; but the fact was that the De
Benis was not a presentable lot. There was
a De Beni who sold the pigs at Bayeux and
got drunk with the regularity of Silenus ;
another De Beni who minded sheep
Was not much better; De .Beni the
carter, and De Beni the ploughman idle,
ragged, unlettered rascals, and a female De
Beni who secured the brass milk vessels and
performed other scullery duties, had the fin-
ger of scorn pointed at her. There wasn't
one of the family except the Princess who
could read or write, and they probably kept
their places on account of their relationship
to Madame De Beni. It was a fact that re-
flected upon the humanity of madame that
every servant upon the farm was a De Bent.
There was not a single member of the house-
hold, except Marie and her mother, whom he
could not present to his uncle, or even to
his mother, without wincing. Even Marie
refused to, have any communication with
them beyond what was necessary for the or-
dering of affairs. And Marie herself, the
Prinwss—dared to take her over to England
and present her in Tunbridge 2 With her
short skirts and cotton bonnstt she would
look as if she had come from the Globe the-
atre in her stage costume.
It was but natural that these reflections
should makeGeorge gloomy. Marie deact-
ed the presence of some trouble on his mind
ten minutes after he had given her the greet-
kinkinwbicbshshsdheldnphercbcekto
take “adieu” for the usual “a domain,”
receive as if she was already his sfilanced
wife. , '
“What grieves you, George ?" she asked,
putting such a soft sweet accent upon his
name that it sounded quite pretty.
“Marie," he said, going straight to the root
of the matter at once, “I am afraid we must
separate.”
“Separate, George—now i" She said
maintenant and not tout de suite, which had
a significant meaning. _
"Yes, Marie, we must separate," George
repeated.
“Why f” opening her beautiful eyes wide,
and laying her hand upon his. "Do I cease
to please you ? Am I less interesting i"
“No, Marie ; you never looked more beau-
tiful; but the fact is, I am beginning to love
you." ‘
“That is a droll reason for wishing to sep-
arate.”
“If I stayed here, I should have to marry
you; for an Englishman—an Englishman—
well, he loves for always 1”
Passing over the doubtful gensrality,Maris
responded softly :
“And so dogwe Frenchwomsn; so why
shouldn’t we marry and live always togeth-
er?”
“You see, Marie dear, we Englishman.
can’t always do as we like. We must study
our families."
“That is quite right.”
“And my family is composedvnearly en-
tirely of persons. ”
“Oh, how delightful for poor mamms l”
"But you see, Marie, English porsons have
strong prejudices; and although you are to
me the very best and sweetest girl in the wide
world they—they—"
“They might not think so,” said the prin-
cess, coming to his assistance. “I see the
difficulty. They want you to marry a girl
like those they married.”
“Exactly so. That is just what I wished
to say.” '
“You shall tell me of my faults, and I will
correct them. You shall tell me of all an
English lady's excellencies, and I will learn
them. Begin, George.”
“Well, in the first place,” said George,
scratching his whiskers, “there’s your
dress.”
“I can alter that to-night. There are Eng-
lish ladies come to Asnelles in the season
and I know how they dress. That is easy.
What next f”
“I don’t know how you are to learn the
manners of an English girl.”
“Have they any P” Marie asked with ut-
most innocence.
“When they're at home, dear, they have
undoubtedly. They are almost as polite as
Parisians."
“If I learn to be quite as polite—”
“Oh, you couldn’t be more gracious and
delightful than you are; but I meant by
manners the habits and ways of our English
girls. ” '
“Tell me their habits.” _
“Well, their habits of neatness andorder,
their habits of—of—J—” George, after try-
ing to find the essentially characteristic habit
of an English girl, concluded in desperation
—“of—-of washing in large basins."
“They tell me London is so foggy and
dirty, that much water is necessary. But
that does not signify; I will wash in a very
large basin, and be still more neat and tidy
in my ways." '
“You dear little soul! ,why should I try
vainly to show you a means of improving f
You are perfect, you darling!"
“But still, dear George, there are things
which English girls do, and I do not. They
speak English; you shall teach me the lan-
guage. And I have heard that every young
lady plays the piano."
“Yes, hang them! And nine out of twelve
would make you repeat that they can.”
“I will learn to play, for I love music.
And this very night I will make a dress like
the English ladies.” '
And Marie was true to her word. The
next morning she,appeared before George’s
astonished eyes in is waterproof, an ancient
and unsightly straw hat, a pair of ~heedless
boots several sizes too long for her pretty
feet, and carrying an umbrella under one arm
and a waterproof under the other.
W.
The Princess went back in the article of
dress. ,She burst into tears when George
laughed at her too faithful imitation of the
English lady abroad, and was only to be
consoled by kisses, and a supplication that
she would change her waterproof and boots
for her picturesque skirts" and shoes—but
she got on rapidly with her accomplish-
ments. There was an old piano in the house,
at Which George heard her practising inde-
fatigably, and every day she brought him the
English exercises he had set her completed
and without an error. They had just got to
that first exquisite active verb, to love, when
George received this telegram from his
mother: ‘
Your Uncle Richard insists upon our tak-
ing advantage of this magnificent weather to
come over and see what you are doing. We
shall be over in a few days.
Following the telegram came a letter from
Uncle Dick—a stupid letter, for “when
people try to be funny you know” George
concluded the sentence with a shrug of his
shoulders. Uncle Dick hoped he had been
sticking to landscape, and had not found
any drover’s daughter in Asnelles to tempt
him from vigorous application to the pur-
pose of his life, which was, he concluded, to
be a Bachelor of Art. What a foolish, silly
old joke i '
The telegram be translated to the Prin-
cess; the letter he merely mentioned, and
then he waited to see if her ready wit would
help him out of the difficulty. But, far
frOm sharing his dismal forebodings, she
seemed only to derive pleasure from the in-
telligence he conveyed. She clapped her
hands joyfully, and cried “I know some-
thing pleasant must happen, for I have
dreamed three times consecutively of your
mamma, and nowIam to see her and one
of your uncles. Will there be any one else?”
George mentioned that his uncle had a'
daughter who would probably be of the
party. The Princess grew anxious at once,
and cross-questioned him closely about her.
He could tell her but little. He had not
seen her-indeed, he had hurried his depart-
ure from England to escape meeting her.
Her father said she was pretty, but then
fathers were not impartial judges; he.had
also heard that she was clever. His mother,
he behaved, wished him? marry the girl.
“But you will not 39 that, George—you
can not," said the Pri , earnestly.
“I would die ratb': ’ I haven't seen her,
but I detestrfrs “on b as if I had. She is
clever, and l. detes " ever girls."
“Don’t you think’that I am clever 1"
“Why, yes, to be sure, you are clever,
dear," replied gorge, with a little embar-
rsssment, to} was: not certain upon that
point, “but s is not the kind of clever-
ness that thise ,p’recious cousin of mine pre—
tends to. She is a. kind of would-be actress,
and you are such a dear, sweet little ingenuc
that you couldn’t act if you tried.”
“Do you think your cousin plays the
piano '9”
“Oh, of course she does in the ordinary
mechanical, maddening manner."
“Do I play in the ordinary manner
George?" _
“That you certainly do not, dear.” He
did not hesitate in affirming that. .
“Then I shall not hesitate to play to your
mamma. There is a beautiful piano at the
hotel, and they will go therezof necessity.
I shall play what I know of the fMarseilg‘
ure-'2:
“Hem i you don’t quite know th‘e bass, do
you, Marie i"
“Not quite, but I will. We must make a
sacrifice to please your momma; and so, in-
stead of meeting you to-morrow, I will stay
at home and practice on the piano until I
know the ‘Marselllaise' perfectly. For I
want you to be quite proud of me, George.”
“You dear, sweet. good—" and the re-
mainder of George's expression of admira-
tion was not to be rendered in words.
The next day, as Maria was not to be in-
duced to forego her piano-forte lesson,
George shouldered his easel and walked over
the hills to Ryes, where he settled himself
down to the first unimpassioned study of
nature he had made for many weeks.
On his way home he met Richard Barton.
“I have come to look after you,” said he,
“for there is no peace at the hotel; the ladies
are dying to see you." (George suppressed
a groan.) “I was told you had gone over to
Ryes.”
“I must go home with my traps, and have
a wash,” said George—hoping to get a word
with the princess‘before going to the hotel.
“Certainly. I will go with you and wait
while you dress; I dare say I can amuse my-
self with looking at_ your studies.”
Knowing the kind 'of amusement those
studies would afford, George said:
“On second,_thought, my apartment is a
little out of theigwey. and I can have a' room
at the hotel." '
“To be sure you can—there’s mine at your
service,” said Uncle Richard in the most
obliging tone. “What have you been doing
here P "
“Oh, you will see t‘o-morrow." George
thought he might as well have out everything
in one day rather than make a protracted
scene of it. “How does London look i’” he
asked, to turn the subject. ?"
“I can hardly tell you. I have been in
Paris these past six weeks.”
“Then you left London before I did?"
“A week. Business required my return.”
“You live in Paris f”
“I have lived there for five-and-twenty
years, and seldom leave it. But the theatre
was closed for redecoration, so 1 got a fort.
night to run to England, and make my long
intended reconciliation with the family."
George opened his eyes wide in astonish-
ment, and looked sidelong at his uncle’s large
mouth and shaven cheek, said:
“You are an actor, then a"
“Yes, not much of an actor, but rather
mere of a lessee. You haven’t heard of
‘Spot’ ?”
“Of the Orphee f"
- Uncle Richard nodded and said: I am
he."
George whistled.
"That did not assist in conciliating my
uncles, did it i?”
“I showed them' my banking account, and
they prudently refrained from asking ques»
tions. And to tell you the truth, George, I
wanted to see your mother and not her
brothers. I am rather indifferent to their
opinion now. For a man of my age is almost
as difilcult to guide and manage as—one of
your age.”
George laughed; he began to sympathize
with his uncle, and like him.
“I found some one to play my part for a
couple of nights, and ran down to Havre to
meet your mother. My daughter is with
her in the hotel there. My sister and I still
hope you may like her well enough to think
of marrying her.
“It is impossible, uncle; you must under-
stand that at once. I can never marry her."
“Why not?”
“Because! love another."
“Ah, I heard something about that at the
hotel ; but what does it matter, George 1’
It is not the first you have loved and left,
you know."
“But surely you wouldn’t have me marry
your daughter, knowing that at this very
moment I love a girl here with all my heart
and soul 1’”
“Oh, we order these things so differently
here. Fathers don’t expect their sons-in-law
to be immaculate, and, provided their family
connections are good and their habits not
scandalous. they are accepted.”
“But I am so English that I can never
bring myself to a heartless mrriage do can-
omnoe—"
"Don't be rash, Gedrge. First of all see
your cousin, and when you find that she sur-
passes your present sweetheart as much as
your present sweetheart surpasses the dra-
pcr’s daughter, you may alter your mind
mil." . ’
George’s face fiushed with anger and shame.
Uncle Dick took no notice, or seemed to take
none.
“I assure you the girl is pretty, and she
has had an excellent education. At six she
went to England; at nine she left the school
there and went to Germany; at twelve she
went to Italy, and the last three years she
'has divided fairly—six months in Paris, six
months in the country. I have kept her
away from my own theatrical set of people,
and I think when you see her and know her,
you will admit that she will be a more suit-
able wife for a man of taste and culture than
a merely pretty peasant who when“ she
ceases to be young, must degenerate into a
stupid, dull, uninteresting partner, and a
clog to your social and professional advance-
ment.” , _
“Sir, I have given my word of honor to
marry this girl, and, be it for ill or good, I
must keep it.”
“Unless she gives you a release." '
“That she will never do."
“Oh, bah! I know the French peasant
character better than you do. A few can
“She would scorn your offer. ”Her love is
holy—disinteredted."
‘ “And she made you believe that—you!
The pretences—thc feeble acting of a mere
peasant—"
“She act! She couldn’t!"
“Don’t be furious, George. There’s your
mother nodding to you from the balcony of
the hotel, and that is your cousin playing the
lude—I know by her touch. Oh, there see
—she joins your mother on the balcony."
"That my cousin! what! Great‘ God!”
George staggered in the Grand Rue before
the Grand Hotel, and stared incredulously
at the fashionably-dressed young lady who
wassmiling down upon him with the sweet-
ness of a well-known and dear friend. “That
my cousin! Nonsense! It is the Princess
of Asnelles."
“But your princess couldn't act, could
she i" asked Uncle Dick. -
“It is the princess—but I want to know fo
certain, is this—is she your daughter 7"
“Undoubtedly. I told you that she spends
six months in the country, where she is en-
couraged to run wild and do as she likes.
As it happens, she has a liking for this
savage, rustic life—when the weather is
~ pleasant. "
“But her mother l”
“Poor soul! She met with an accident
upon the stage when Marie was only 3 years
old, and though she retained her sanity, her
intellect was so far cnfeebled that she has
no thought but for her religious duties. The
pure air of Asnelles is life to her, and she
never quite the country." -
“But her name is De Bani, and the family
—the shepherd, the pig dealer—” ' p ‘
Uncle Richard burst into a hearty laugh.
“Haven’t you learned the habits of Calva-
dos sufllciently to knoyv that mistress. ser-
vants—aye, and the very cattle, take the
name of the farm they are: upo . Here:
1. I"
“Monsieur.”
“Who on r o" ,
{Mandam- de; gone”.
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.. - Gil-.zette Office
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N orwalk Look 00. - - Oillce
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“rowitt, J. T. - Hardware
‘figndle, J. 0., PAY on‘rcn, - Store
Rny‘uond .k Nickerson - -. Store
Rayln and, G. W. - - Residence
Raymbn'd Brothers - Upper Ofiice
Raymond Brothers - Lowcr’thcc
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Selleck Brothf‘rst ' ' 3 £55,513:
Sherman, S. J. ‘ ' _ Stable
Sherman, S. J, .' ‘ Hardware
Smith, W. H. at Co. ' Ofiice
Solmans, A. - ' .
Starr, 0. S _ _ - Resrdsctnce
. ' - : ore
assessors. . swam-wok
Stillson. G. c. - -‘ 1"“38‘“
St.John, c. E. - - “512,31?“
Trowbridge, Chas. S. - N orw “‘1’:
Western Union Tclegrnph’ -
Western Union Telegraphfiout
Wilson, S. B . Builder,
Wood, Chas. N. -
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PRANGS’
Birthday Cards,
FOR SALE AT THE
fl Norwalk
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Market
VOL. LXV.-.-NUMBER 19
Women’s Triumph.
A Severe surglcal Operation. It to En-
durcd Without Inklsngltho. Sub-
jccs, Mrs. Edward in en ofBon-
dont, N. ,
(From the Correspondent of thc Kingston ,N. Y,.
Freeman.)
The case of Mrs. Edward Myers of Rondout
New York, furnishes an apt illustration of
woman's power of endurance. This lady had
been treated for months in the usual way for
Erysipelas of the hand, without benefit! Not'
until her hand had become a mass of putrificd
flesh did she turn to Dr. Kennedy, proprietor
of the “Favorite Remedy" for help.
He at once informed her that it was impos-
sible to save the hand—it must be amputated.
She received this terrible intelligence quietly,
declined to take ether, stipulating merely to
held her husband’s hand during the operation
and underwent the painful process without
moving a. muscle or uttering a groan. Dr.
Kennedy then gave Favorite Remedy freely
to cleanse the blood and prevent the return of
the disease, and. Mrs. Myers now lives and
rejoices in her great deliverance.
“Favorite Remedy” is fast becoming a.
trusted household friend in all cases of female
weakness and disease of The blood. One dol-
lar to bottle. Your druggists has it. 41:19.
RETAI- ESTATE.
NW ’vm.z\n/\r\xzr
Real Estate for Sale
PURSUANT to an order of the Court of Pro-
hate for the District of Norwalk the sub-
scriber offers for sale the House and Lot belong-
in to the Estate of Mary Nary deceased,s1tuatcd
in orwalk on Clin'Avenuc, at “The Rocks.” Lot
60x150 with convenient housc,good well of water,
do. A splendid chance to buy a homestead at a.
small price. GEO. L. MILLER,
tf« . Administrator.
1:
House For Sale.
0. 8 CAMP STREET, house has 9 rooms
with gas, portable furnace, cistern of water,
Bprough water on premises. Also a large barn
wrth. stabling for several horses, fruit trees,
grape vines, Jrc,
Also for Sale.
The Cottage House and lot opposite the resi-
dence of Mr. Charles E. St. John, Main Street.
For particulars apply at GAZETTE OFFICE.
For Sale.
AT NORTH N ORWALK, directly in front of
Mr. Norman Knapp’s place 6 building lots 60
ft. front by about 200 deep for 8110: Also 3 others
south of and adjoining said Kuapp’s, forsw; Also
several othercheap lots from $15 to 820 each. Un-
less sold by the 1st of May they in be rented
with other land: Call on .' E. ILSON.
To Let.
THE large, commodious front room in Gazette
Building just vacated by Francis McKeon.
Full particulars of
B. J. success:
For Sale or to Rent.
HE well-known Farm at Winnipauk, formerly
owned by Mor an T. Smith, is ofi‘ered for
sale or to rent. The arm contains some 40 acres
of improved land, in good condition, a. commodi-
ous and convenient residence, barns, doc. Pos-
session given immediately. Pricc low and terms
easy. For further particulars enquire at the
FAIRFIELD COUNTY NATIONAL BANK. 11
To Rent.
PLACE on the Winnipauk Road. near the
head of Main Street. A comfortable House,
small Barn,Gardcn, Orchard, large front yard,
rass plots, and plenty of land, Apply to B.J.
STURGES, Gazette Building.
To Rent.
A DWELLING containing 9 rooms. Also 4
rooms suitable for ofiices, over G. St S._H.
Holmes’ Grocery Store. Main Street. For partic-
ulars apply to O. C. BETTS.
Farm for Sale.
THE Homestead of the lateSeth Hickok, com—
prising about 75 acres of tillable ground, sit-
uated in New Canaan, near the Reservorr of the
Norwalk Water Works. It has a good Dwellrn g
House, Burn, and other out-buildings thereon. It
is well watered. and has an abundance of good
fruit trees. Also twenty acres of cultivated land
adjoining the Homestead. Price reasonable.
En sire of MRS. ANNA M. HICKOK, or
RUSS LL L. HALL, New Canaan. 7t
For Sale or to Rent.
A House and One Agfl 10f Land, on Prospect
of
f
Ma be had on reasonable terms. Appl to
y E. W.STIIART.
Norwalk, March 16th, 1881. 12tf
Farm for Sale
IN SOUTH WILTON.
0B. SALE—the place known as. the Samuel
1’. Bundle Form. A very dcsrrahle farm
with 20 acres-up to 80 according as the purchaser
may need. If not sold by the lst ot'April,would
like to rent the place to some good party. _ For
full particulars apply to J. C. HANDLE, Winni-
pauk, or STEPHEN 1-1. SMITH,Norwa1k. Stf
Apartments to Let. -
IN the Brick Houses on Leonard street. In-
quire at LEONARD’S COAL OFFICE.
' For Sale. .
a T South Norwalk, half smile from the depot,
the latc residence of A. ll.Snowdcn, known
as “Clifi‘wood.” Large Villa House, substantial-
ly built, in good order, eleven rooms, cellar and
attic, large parlor with bay Windows beautiful
tower, carriage house, barn and stable. attractive
grounds, finefv shaded With fruit and forest‘trees.
Terms to suit. Apply to A. C. SNOWDLN, on
the premises, or to REV. R. B. SN 0WDL'N 81
St. Mark‘s Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. Still:
Farm for Sale.
THE subscriber will sell the wel known David
St. John Farm with all the Stock, Tools and
Growing Crops. Most of: the price can remain on
mortgage. For full particulars address
22st GEO. F. BELDEN, Winnipauk, Conn.
FOR SALE.
TWO very desirable Building Lots on West
Main street. Apply at GAZETTE OFFICE.
For ‘ Sale.
THE well known progeny of W turns 0.
STREET, situated on _ Igh Street, in the Bor-
ough of Nor\va1k,containrng one acre of ground
fronting on High and Main Streets, thh commo-
dious Dwelling House, With all the modern 1m-
provcments, lar 6 Barn, and out buildings, and
one-half of smn house on Main Street. For fur
ther particulars enquire of BU RR SMITH , Agent.
N orwallr, April 11th, 1581. 15tf
FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS willbny
a small lncc on the hill east of Winnipauk
facing the unsbury a Bissell Factory. A
chance for a poor man to secure abome oihxs
own. Apply at the GAZETTE OFFICE. car
Farm for Sale.
HE subscriber offers his Farm for sale, situa-
ted in the Town of Greenfield, in Saratoga
00., in the state of New l’ork, nine miles from
Saratoga Springs. It is pleasantly situated on
a rise or" ground, 95 acres of land, which is favor-
ably dividcd into pasture, plow, meadow and
woodland; With a large house; the size of the
born 30 by 40, wagon house and stabliu g, hay loft
over the same, 23 by 43, and grainery 16 by is.
Will be sold cheap; part of the purchase money
can remrin on mortgage if desired, or Will ex-
change forvillage propegtly. For further particu-
lars inquire of LAB P. TUTTLE,
t151 Norwalk. Conn,
Desirable Property for sale.
A Very desirable place on East Avenue.
Also, a low chorce Building Lots situated on
Osborn Avenue. for sale cheap.
Also. a. nicely located House and Lot on Mer-
wrn Street near West Avenue, for sale at a bar-
gain, Enquire of
S. E. OSBORN,East Avenue,
tfll or to D. W, Fitch, W est Avenue.
Small Place for Sale.
A SMALL, two-story Houscnvith one acre of
Land, near BroadRiver Bridge,ls oflcred
for sale at a low rice, to close an estate. En
quire at the GAZE TE OFFICE. 6
f or Sale.
Acosy, comfortable Cottage on one of thcplcns-
autest streets in town, within five minutes
walk of the Bridge or Churches, will be sold at
low price. A portion of the purchase money can
remain on bond and mortgage. Price 37,000. En-
quire nt this Office.
For Sale Cheap.
Better than low interest Baillie.
A House on Fair Street.
Apply to B. J. Sturgcs.
DWELLINGS
AND
Building Lots.
EVERAL dwellin s,various. prices in differ—
* S ent portions of orough, either to lot or for
sale at reasonable prices. Also several places
outside of Baron h limits—one in “fininpuuk
Also several Building lots inand out‘oi Borough
tits Enquire at this Oillco.
The Poet and the Children.
JOHN G. WHITTIER.
With a glory of winter sunshine
Over his locks of gray,
. In the old historic mansion
He sat on his last birthday.
With his books and his pleasant pictures
And his household and his kin,
While a sound as of myriads singing
From far and near stole in.
It came from his own fair city,
From the prairic’s boundlesss plain,
From the Golden Gate of sunset,
' And the cedar woods of Maine.
And his heart grew warm within him,
And his moistening eyes grew dim,
For he knew that his country’s children
Were singing the songs of him :
The lays of his life’s glad morning,
The psalms of his evening time,
Whose echoes shall float fbrever
On the winds of every clime.
All their beautiful consolations,
Sent forth like birds of cheer,
Came flocking back to his windows,
And sang in the Post’s ear.
Grateful, but solemn and tender,
The music rose and fell
With a joy akin to sadness
And a greeting like farewell.
With a sense of awe he listened
To the voices sweet and young;
The last of earth and the first of heaven
Seemed in the songs they sung.
And waiting a little longer
For the wonderful change to come,
He heard the summoning Angel 1
Who calls God’s children home!
And to him, in a boiler welcome,
Was the mystical meaning given
0f the words of the blessed Master:
“Of such is the kingdom of Heaven l"
——- Wide Awakefor May.
Via Solitaria.
AN UNPUBLISHED roan av nauuv w. LONG-
FELLOW.
Alone I walk the peopled city,
Where each seems happy with his own;
Oh l friends, I ask not for your pity—
I walk alone.
No more for me you lake rejoices,
Though moved by‘loving airs of June.
0! bird’s your sweet ”and piping voices
Are out of tune.
In vain for me the elm tree arches
Its plumes in many a feathery spray;
In vain the evening‘s starry marches
And sunlit day.
In vain your beauty, summer flowers ;
Ye cannot greet these cordial eyes;
They gaze on other fields than ours—
On other skies.
The gold is rifled from the codes,
The blade is stolen from the sheath;
Life has but one more boon to offer,
And that is—Death.
Yet well I know the voice of duty.
And, therefore, life and health must crave,
Though she who gave the world its beauty
Is in her grave.
I live, 0 lost one! for the living
Who drew their earliest life from thee,
And wait, until with glad thanksgiving
I shall be free .
For life to me is as a station '
Wherein apart a traveler standsm
One Absent long from home and nation,
In other lands;
And I, as he who stands and listens,
Amid the twilight’s chill and gloom,
To hear, approaching in the distance,
The train for home.
For death shall bring another mating,
Beyond the shadows of the tomb,
0n yonder shore a bride is waiting
Until I come.
In yonder fields are children playing,
And there—oh! visions of delight !—
I see the child and mother straying
In the robes of white.
Thou, then, the longing heart that broakest,
Stealing the treasures one by one,
I’ll call Thee blessed when thou makest
The parted—one.
September 18, 1863.
Now that our best and sweetest poet has
left us, rending by his departure the veil of
that sanctuary,—his inmost life and feeling
——it may not be unlawful to publish, what
would have been sacrilege before, the above
touching poem, not written for the public
eye, but simply to give utterance to his heart
crushing sorrow after the death of his wife
in 1861. It was sent to me by afriend in
Boston, some years ago, after my own great
affliction, and has, therefore, a double sacred-
uess to all who have passed through a similar
sorrow. It will be read by many with tear-
ful eyes, when they remember how long and
patiently, with what brave and uncomplain-
ing heart, he has waited at the “station," till
now, at last “the parted” are made “,one."
H. M. Goonwnv.
Olivet College, Michigan.
—New York Independent.
What the Burdock was Good for.
.—
BY A. S. R.
“Good for nothing,” the farmer said,
As he made a sweep at the burdock’s head;
But then, he thought it was best, no doubt,
To come some day and root it out.
So be lowered his scythe, and went his way,
To see the corn, and gather his hay;
And the weed grew safe and strong and tall,
Close by the side of the garden Wall.
“Good for a home,” cried the little toad,
As he hopped up out of the dusty road.
He had just been having a dreadful fright,
The boy who gave it was yet in sight.
Here it was cool and dark and green,
The safest kind of u leafy screen.
The toad was happy : “For," said he,
“The burdock was plainly meant for me.”
“Good for a prop,” the spider thought,
And to and fro with care he wrought,
Till be fastened it well to an evergreen,
And spun his cables fine between.
’T was a beautiful bridge,—~a triumph of skill;
The files came ’round. as idlers wi[l; ’
The spider lurked in. his corner dim,
The more that came, the better for him.
“Good for play," said a child, perplext
To know what frolic was coming next.
So she gathered the burrs that all despised,
And her city playmate was quite surprised
To see what a beautiful basket or chair
Could be made, with a little time and care.
And played all day by the burdock’s side.
Nothing is lost in this world of ours;
Honey comes from the idle flowers;
The weed which we pass in utter scorn,
May save a life by another morn.
Wonders await us at every turn.
We must be silent, and gladly learn.
No room for recklessness or abuse
Since even a burdock has its use.
— SI..Nihltolas for May
SHILOH’S VITALIZER is what you need
for Consumption, Loss Of Appetite, Dizzi—
ness and all symptoms of Dyspepsia. Price
50 and 75 cents per bottle. Manson Hoyt,
agent. -tf
—..._._._.—_
Advice to wives—Man is very much like -
an egg—keep him in hot water and he is
l‘fiGAZETTE OFFICE.
[bound to become hardened.
They ranged their treasures about with pride, ,
Norwalk Chronicler