Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1873, Page 2

‘The world buds every yeat: Rut the heart just once; and when The blosom off sere No new blossom comes agxin. Ab! the rose goes with the wind; But the thorns remain behind. Wasitwellinkim,ifhe Felt not love, to speak of love so? ee es be, wo? ‘as it nodly soaght to move so? Pinck the flower, snd yet not wear it? Spurn, despise it, yet hot spare it? Need he say that I was fair, With such meaning in his tone, Just to speak of one whose hair Had the same tinge as my Own? Pluck my life up, root and bloom, Just to plant it on her tomb? And she'd searee so fair a face (So he used to say) as mine; And her form had far less grace; And her brow was far less fine, Bat ‘twas just that he leved then, More than he can love again. Why, if beauty could not bind Him, Need he praise ————— low; Use my face just to remind him How no face could please him now? Why, if loving could not move h Did he teach me still to love him? And he said my eyes were wey eng But bis own, he said, were dim And my hand. be said, was white; But what was i « « I seem gaaing at a statue. “ Vest” he said, ‘he had grown wise now, He has suffer'd much of yore; But a fair grace to his eyes now, Was a fair face and no more. Yet the anguish and the bliss, And the dream, too, had been his.” Why those words, a thought too tender For the commonplaces spoken? Looks whose meaning seem'd to render Help to words when speech came broken? Why so latein July senalight Ad Just to say what's said by noonlight? : (Owen Meredith, THE CROSS-EYED ANGEL. After the German of Adeline Velck- bhausen. Our old nurse was the first to call me “Cross- eyed Angel,” her example was followed by my brothers; ¢ by the children tn the bor- hood: and, later, example of them was followed, f am ‘quite sure, by the whom I met at parties, with to picnics, and danced with at the casino. In the ni I was, mt to the nick- name—so indeed. mysel sometimes employed it; and, although my brothers it'as a means me, it never really my feel to be called by it, until I heard it cried out me for the first time on the street. Tying, and declared never go out again; but I allowed myself to be consoled by my mother, who ex; that the word “angel” far ow beautiful golden hair as | had.+ ‘That was, perhaps. trne, but the golden rieh- ness of my hair did not lessen the terrible squint | of my le! ye. I must try to conceal it, I thought; and, as I hal read in some old books that the Baroness of—I don't remember what— &® prim and venerable spinster, admonished her Delces and other young damsels to clasp their hands before them, to look |. and never at the bachelors, I resoived to range myself among her disciples. { But I found this very em! ; and, when I met acquaintances, it was quite im- cticable. T therefore was compelled to give it up, and to look at trong! gd as L always done, except the bors in the street. 1 them as my greatest enemies, and avoided them in every way possible. On the whole, I | think I endured the irremediable with a fair share of resignation. I say irremediable, be- cause it seemed as though there was no remed: for the defect. My parents consulted severa| surgeons. but they all shook their learned heads, amd refused to undertake the operation. My case, it seemed, was not anordinary one; the operation required was more severe than theone , ustally performed in such eases, and the result was very doubtfal. ¥ + and mother were, nevertheless, both im favor of having the operation per. formed, but I had not the courage. I shud dered at the mere thought of having = | gut, and then I ‘eared 1 might lose it entirofy. | Being ercss-eyed 1 thought far better than being one-eyed. | In one respect, at least, my misfortune dii In society I | ot operate to my disadvant : never hal the mortification of being negleeted; and at balls and daneing- my card was filled sooner than, perhaps, that of girl of my acquaintance. But, thei always carefal to de cheerful and sunny, and not to reply in monosyllables; on the ‘con- j trary. to always do my share of the talking, and to talk my best, without appearing to be md of my own voice, or | in love with the sou ¥ seeming to think that [ was Sir or Madame ——s and should be listened te more than another. “One never tires of talking to the Cross-eyed Ange!,” Tonce overheard a gentleman of my acquaintance say to another. Ah! Lut the com- pliment the remark conveyed was not sutti- | place cient to assuage the pain the nickname caused | me, far asthe speaker was from any intention to be unkind. : came over me, and lasted for a time, after being | unpleasantly ‘reminded of my bodily defect. | Atsuch times I woukl retire to some obseare | corner—shed, perhaps, on ee ears and re. nti, out ce with myself, erin fie! if ther don’t: like my looks, they need not look at me!” and I would sally forth Pccn:pthansien: aebeabtleh Nor tanuoal | It was, eyes that I wak so partial to my friend Charlotte. | I, at all events, sometimes though expressed my admiration for them she would reply that I, too, woult some eyes if! Ah! that uniortunate they stood in their sockets, the one loo! ing one | way and Socther anather, thay ware little short | Of repulsive. Charlotte and [had grown up ther; our families were meighbors. She hal played in our nursery and I im theirs; she in our gar- den, and fon their lawn. Thus habit faa united us more closely tham choice would have done; but, although when I grew up, thts still, Was sometimes unpleasantl ly apparent, trom force ef habit, our re! ly: because he knew Charlotte was not here. daze, F beg of som, Lissie.” he began agate. changed. dred nature. I talked a good deal, and talked, like whee “What will your parents say?” ak nanan tn ae, a very dif- | 1 thought seat coe? cee “Speak Hee dot” he entrented; but two reathes the bs Now much oe kid sone Pte ae gg me parent Eberh: 5] and unaccount bet @ LJ were rich, and belonged. t0 the so-called fash. | st , he nevertheless listened to me very|| Qf resnones, one COW mY cheeks were my | strange and unaccountable, appeared to me in shall we say to the doc- fonables. They kept a itttle army of servants, | respectfully, and I felt a healthful inspiration “What! oa weep? Oh, what a barbarian | Fro sao a aweee eng, ae much to pamper | in ing ideas with bim that was asagree- | gms he erled. “Come, come may love, we will jothing !”’ I replied. § and spoil the children. Charlotte was, perhaps, | able as it was new. +| tal no more about it: Forget what I have “That, perhaps, will be the wisest course, the most spoiled of any of them, was in | "I have tong since f 1 had oald,'| SSid_tor to-dayaticast, Toit wore said he; “yes, that will be best."" Some measure due, doubtless, to her being the | but I looked to Eberhard for a ly. He “Yes, we will talk of it,” I interrupted, «You have, you insist,” he continued, only daughter. Sno wes net outs ust voquived to was silent, and the of his was | for { had formed an unal resolution. i after & pause, “on me from my prom- do anything, but she was not red to do any- — |. He seemed occa; with | was so ly agitated that I could not continue ise. thing, that pertained to howsebokd duties. S) some t! t _ wi sul we were | i, the pause, Eberhard fixed ‘The words stuck in his throat, but I did not was surrounded by nothing, would- | discussing; but he looked me full in the face, | Kis eyeson ime witke ee ; intone! tp him. he poetic nimbus, which fails to the lot of wo- | and It seemed as his large, dark eyes | schicliude.. I-wavched him closely, «You secuse me—me and Miss i en in exclusive cireles only. would my inmest soul. “I am ready—no, no! 1 him but, much as accusations pain 4 T will I, on the contrary, was broaght up in a vw. I felt strangely e: -.| not to touch tne; * ready,” I continued, —— a . ot eS SS alton mr atone ; “provided the ph: mis will uniderake it, and OEE a ieee oe ba Nol oat engageme: of oar movent ext bliahment, and 1 learned be- | the it; Y turned away, aud my uncon- pe A pain liad te ehhh ras ab charlie, and a compelled Preserve the | the thought that Iwas doubted, and you doubt | mes how to use my needle. At school = | manne: gone. He tried to reestab- | “Now, in spite of me, he threw his arms | semblance of gratitude, although I knew that gaboth v senor are vier aed, Gace a Wanna: | py frateea ne ner Due MSSmlearor | ange ae, nd Cried in paronyom of ux: | emer nga el ecricing are and Gia, | Jo; tao not doubt know,” 1 inter senior, : wi amuse % soon 4 ” time she did. But, as I had always intended to | "Eberhard experienced great difficulty in find- | UG: 1 soe {han (lls cowl Ekaveos|| tired of. Whee we werent, oe nd your con be a teacher when I got old enough, it seemed | ing rooms that suited him. Now he to four love for Never, never in my life will, 3 nat in our conver- “I have nou? 4 be fe = to me very natural that I should study pees | Sareea cnpaees, now te, Cane Une se: forget this. besatitul you will be, and’ sation; but it seemed to me that she became “You are severe, and I—| — — and know everything better than Lottie, who | the thi and now to their too how delighted you will be witli yourself? And, | daily more talkative, although I became daily'| ing. Let us drop the subject; Ifear con- would be rich, and never have to do anything | from the side of the townon which we lived. ‘an for the: Dr. Waltenstein assures me | more 2 3 ver, Eberhard sequences. Your giving me back my ring, in for a livelihood. He was with us eves two before he | that, in his mn, it ig not great. He says | L was fc svon i could not help | thi 2 a oat intisiation you ee ees ook with | found quarters that him. They were in | he is almost ‘the mn will be suc- doubting whether he came more tosee me than es Oe ee the omen us chikiren; his leisure hours were always given | our immediate neighborhood, ee 1? Charlotte. yours. Here it is.”" And ta crf vo to us. From him we learned more thaninschool, | so situated that he could over! + =e 1 discovered, therefore, that was 1 that no one should know of my | rectived Lang me on hy and in a much more agreeable manner. His our n (rom Por ‘rue, eo already thoroughly informed with ‘to the fame, may parents leastof all. I did not want to Rasewets it bay Mp 4 Eye ee was one of these natures that are notcontent a northern exposure, that little dangers ‘an operation, and proba- bo em 80 long as I had not positive f | not yet relinquish * shail unless they are continually.commuanicating to was more than counterbalanced by other con- | pip; its result—which showed how | of berbard’s faithiemncss, and until then I de- | a word from that me & reeonciliation those around them whatever they may know erations, . much the matter interested him, and that, too, | termined not to change my manner toward him | is possible. will leave you, would, doubt- that is worth acquiring. aud consequently al- | During these two weeks we became right well | just when I for the first time im my life’ had | oF Thegan iy, hese, fer to be alone. ‘Shail { send a nurse to Ways act as an incentive to others to make daily | acq The weather remarkably | cexsed to think of it. because she was deliberately, and wilfally, to their stock of knowledge. To this pigneaad, wo ses 6 goed ame time in the Meanwhile, after I had recovered from the me ke peculiarity of my father was doubtless dus the open air, and, when time admitted | rst shock his proposition gave me, I said act that my mother, her manifol it, he joined us on she v: or he sought ee Sak he ee eelreee erat at heart, that household duties, retained a certain me out in a fay and in the gar- | he was solely by love for me, youthfulness gpd freshness to the day of her | den under one two Under-trees, | that it be simply cowardice en my ion over our rending, caikcd with ws aboutwnat | ter satus of Juste,” During Sue hours Buen | Zot 0,ctumre® an operation it the phyaid over our a wi ter it wase we read, and, indeed, often tous the san shone on the so as to make it | succcasful. , at 3 ‘and cool pew wonder that our house was calle! under consey) we often Dt z= ind when any ene, for a change, | Ger Sue in the/aftsrnoon gathered HE ything but Cross-eved Angel, itwas | around Madame Justice,” as we were in the Dr. Waltenstein was the assistant of the lead- sure to be “Learned Lizzie;” which, to mo, was | habit of saying. ing of our city, He had been a fellow- as I could not abide ‘The preparing of the coffee, while my ge Sie ee, Sie Srervanans of hie the abbreviation, oe eee Farin § pee ne arn Son office. All we pigmengy crtnng asa man very name } usually coffee-ho: aa ae would have —Elizal thing else. but net always however, ne been ‘to have had Ws ‘perform the plomnere I ahd phous that was ——_. wee lover of good coffee, but to that my parents refused posi: oe tra gentle ter , im wl there more real com- first promptness was: sole ve netves, and con- fort, or w the Sernaien cujeges omesive wo his to get the decoction as soonafter | Bu gee Aiticaty in the than were. It all seemed to agen apo ee past. we, aid; even co: made as possible. | | Ofmy i , but, ‘was the the little of the day awoke, mother that, would have been hard to was, in fact, of an epi- eae ‘ime were on me. me; tee tye 2 house tn wi a there was 8 groster ahsthoe qf perp omer ped mgt Ly jt Henad | leas; see Bo, opportunity te ‘One wd ech ee he, me ant ~~ 5 See net Nate and, = called ““styse.” ‘been ‘more than ‘three asked this and :. moments, imagine My father was lawyer. He stood hightm hi: | when he took occasion to gay, “Khe man wis | (re’oretetion’ ar bein’ neh her ae inne Carly who chanced to be | imust feel ust after having pone great profession, and was consequently always fally | is not himself rich is induty bound to look out ge BF it. “At T, too, became | there, ‘meanwhile Charlotte, and | danger. employed.” It was, therefore. natural tha! | for arich wife. I,for my can't concei' fascinated idea of ey ey And had I not? Piegggung Jurete who located i Gor cange of adomestic im which there r pot undesstand why I order to make the doctor and If I had become Eberhard’s wife, he would b ‘hould be invifed Eo gr aeaen —_ fg He ey y maise bas ot bere ‘ ott call on us, but be im to our littleen- means.” removed “ Your pulse has not so regular should have te endure that their visits should be encouraged. In stances, was in taste, Jan 3 Rienge Cart, 0 not #0 of self-reapect. now 1 wae Veen Te pau, he pple fo ag oS ‘ eyes, m0 doctor, Jove for him had knew no mercy. conde mu‘sd, weaknesses: which a oa was mortal, and failings, when we were with must not only be ‘Dat she must 7 clear to me that he did it ou my account, | her: and A me in order that I ee pod es ne Gp left such ee Occarred; he sent illusions with regard pear a juestionable eat ‘What was a Jed any tts love-aifaire to Fecount, Uke all the | not rich aad Seneaiieth It saaur ne © meter Toatele had ‘hom Foung girly of my acquaintance, cepectally | of perfect indifference to mes" But fk was not wake =] is "ae ee said I. ome % neual, promptly. inl oamiie | Neverthe Tonder to the sight ne with thesed | & mamner see of the church?” he asked; + my fae, urtains’”” ~ tn tay or Berea. ane at Sexes, she it, whr> sotbiner 4 a 7 one ws of my new f *MiPere “ard plenty raeute go ec NPT SLE yet epe Baeapet ee ’ wab that Cart ve | Epa Ting ind Wok over Kerb,” | month. _ inelination to give way. : coeees ta ie fee | Adame dusters aware i bo Nay perce ge eae eee) angen ee ree equa TES sabtee win i ‘i ‘Mother'remained with me all that time; father popieeceaety made GF seme iene parent min gusnever lone orale ge seen 4 tion; bat Miss Kdeabetso oes ee SRC ay Oo et ee it was, th , « rally, Mins 's coffee,” | sirst feverish had tional—“but I think it my duty to insist on pet ielcaatebemuietee ten c allowed to SS nurse; if it is erome- Iknogy the hone, aud, | fiateton desirable that Miss Elizabeth should not suffer ” ‘My mother’s place for a part of from tedium, it is equally so that nothing abould a she Batt an ab ptt ee excite her.” z i we needed at home. ar- | «But Ido nothing to excite her; our conyer- pate] Sec uae enfant sation Js alwa gts the most commonplace | lcs,’ lotte. pon me s0 the woke of with white Carl and the ret Ror that T Rave no doubt; but to-moorow ‘Agita- | time in obedience to the doctor's wishes, ior ger 4 Figs, Nowbort” and without waiting to lift | _ During the first days, the surgeon who t- | At the door he turned and J ir. Eb. | dom me came accompanied by his t, | “Ah, Eberhard, shall I see you at the casino ich I made the | then the latter came alone. His visits soon be- this evening?” king at effort, and, clasping it in both of his, he asked, | ¢*me very welcome; his manner was very soft | ‘No! Eberhard, ina as the signifi- I, at that time, had passed my nth | ina tone ‘of passion: and sympathetic, and his voice exocediagly cance of w! was unmistaka bl Fe ‘ane Won birthday, and still it seemed to me that our “May I come again, Elizabeth—may I?” He . He had looked, I Perey bad. an a was now a os =. po vhacer| est, was inolined to treat me aa child, al- | pressed my hand Lastily to hie lins, wal seleaa | idea, for I scarcely ‘knew him, altonse ke | that it wasmy daty first to spealk, ai though I could not complain that his manner |: R'forwe heard Albee? conta w me very well by sight, he ‘said, and had | consequently did not onlyremain silent, but did toward me was not perfectly well-bred and re- |' "nodded a “yes,” 1 was too full to intrust the had me n his eye as good subject upon | ngteven move, ia special. Short slight as I was, he liter- | moposyllable to my lips. i ‘which to exercise his art. He often prolonged ‘Shall_you ey - Waltenstein’s orders?’ ly down on me; and, accus- | "A moment afterward Albert ethergéd from | luis visits, especially when he chanced to asked Eterhard, finally. = tomed to romp occasionally in the garden with |) 4 Gu; Of lilac bushes near b: singing one of Carl there, of which I was alwaysglad,ag, when inty—I must,” rep! rrp my younger brother Albert, I eee See is col so occupied ths bunch | he was present, the conv. always took a a been told that my supporting the dignity of a young lady. of Sowers he had in his hand as to prevent his | higher range and animated. oe peng LS bert, who was at collage, ‘was of, comrae my agitation. Eberhard had hastily | 1 myself took very little part in these conver- ‘altenstein is @ » ® despot. learning Latin, which he yéry difficult. T, | ROMCINE my agitation. Eb disappeared in the | *tions, for they were always carried on behind |, cried Eberhard. “He only wants to show his too, something of Latin, partly |’ oposite rR us time was given me | ™Y back. My invalid- was 80 ‘asto | aut + [know him of old. Heal wants en passant with m Gr gad Berar | to recover my self- my | turn my face from the window, while my visi- | to have everybody do his bg pore yy them say over task and by & |' and mother came and Eberhard returned. tors nai ly ered together » the only Fight way. he compe wh the tna BO ins talnor | A,ittle more two weeks afterward we |i‘, here it was light enough to, ghee d Pe eG el fe # me.» was wa “Tt not iy adds to our Enovicdge of pol dT ideo the Ai ine ||there she usually sat with her kultting, oc ages | ter of indifference to ‘whether you have Miss lengrees. plo gas = sppcared to me in the tintsof a clBudloss pther kind of work that did not requi much. See See ee ee day, Or @ common, ; the latter is of more importance than the tee tunties Gi dads Leip dad 1, certainly, ought not to have found his | ‘Certainly not,’ I replied. yeni If there was an: Lo ee be- Tisite fodions, had ne the time he devoted | ‘Why, thpn, did you say nothing?” he repeat- Albert sat in the garden near the house, fog pertocty ta ‘was @ certain to them me, if ras, not so lent; but I ed. “How ungratecul you appear! It is not learning the Late Wich Sve seaceadive. | tice with my ‘consented to my be- ft aD Heerlen lle et md od pany wie The more difficult he m # trothal. ‘He contended thar T was to young to |i so when Charlotte was there, 0. net to oppose the doctor in do- into his head, the louder he Ad, | marry, and sald he would have besn better | and that he wanted to show his gratitude to het | ing whatever he thinks for the best,” said. I, tn apud, ante, he number of times. | pleased tohavescen me remain single at least | fF her kindness in devoting herself 90 faith. | a decided tone. ee was fast to the seventh or eighth | Pcesed five years ; but that he had only | fully to his yi 'y it was very | “Perhaps this has your approval?” he in- we Girea, cireiter, erga,” I helped him for. | BY welfare at heart, aid trosted that all my Doms he ipent ith ee ommerten | TON. ae ward, ag I continued to weed my favorite flow- this I had nota doubt, what fiance ever | , 1 was surprised ‘only, at the familiar, bantering “Waste no more words upon the matter, I er-bed. ela ictae ts had? True, I knew only too woll that I failed | {ine they so qulckly fell into. Charlotte was | beg of you, Mr. Eberhard,” i ~ “0b, pene. per,” andl he stue! again, ean or afl the condi my betfothed had | #!ways inclined to be a little ungracious, and I | lotte; ‘‘this' silence is a sufficient reply,” and he till shummbted ofer there f ‘bepenithe ise | demanded of the woman whom he would select | ¥8# Pained to discover that Carl“had a kindred | she butst Into tears. e still seumbled over them, I began th thai | {or his wife, but I believed they were forgotten | tFait in his character. Neither of them was | Eberhard was immediately at her side. and went through them with a cel * | by him us they were by me, and that Eberhard | Without wit, and, rather than lose a clever con- ‘Come, come; the matter is not’of sufficient po! Mave done credit to un old-time was contentt with me as Iwas. I was in error, colt, there was hardly any one they would have br ney gn ies parsons ore said a angi have, them in my memory so fast that I eee Oe ime, “My angel,” and | , [ali things else T thought them wholly air. | a trait in Elizabeth.” s all Bever forget them,” I added; “‘but they | y 1euened amt corrected him, ‘Ay e ed | ferent, for I knew Eberhard only ae an earnest, “What do you mean by that?” I asked, ina arg terribly hard to learn at first.” | angel,” ne replied: “My child, don't say that 1 | thoughtfat man. aman who, like my father, | lond and sharp tone. Agee mo Ger a igen vow | Geen tobee i vcan ca [ eieettingtnts Pea the RARE | vote guise Mr You fend {Miss Elizabeth, ean you repeat the prepos UeWrall Utatnk tote oryunteral Tensuia wat | eared Olah Gantag ear hore ‘acquaintance | | ‘That ls not true,” Teried, for my blood be- tions with the ablative also?” asked a * | like to be reminded of the unfortunate blemish | With him. Charlotte, on the contrary, had no } gan to boil; “but, if you want to know just what voice from above us. to your beauty,” he replied. taste for intellectual [Zureaits, and was, tayreal- | My wish is in the matter, I will tell you frankly J looked up. Eberhard was leaning out of | “Ah, Carl, in the course of timo you will get | ity, very ignorant. At schoal, it had always —that I prefer having another attendant. se vineew, and had heard and seen all that | 49 accustomed to it that you will not notice if" | been very difficult for her to learn, and she I see you are jealous!” int Chane he had 3 Lfeit my face-redden, and for a moment 1| , “Po you think so? Idoubt it," said he, in a | Rot supplied her want of aptitude by industry, | lotte, quickly, ‘That was a home~ y ‘see: fhe. , | and now she never thought of takin; & book in- | instant my indignation knew no bounds. I bear gy avg med peter per bern ler Hopped the peisations of hoy heart M1y | to her hands. She andolsfor all that. bed co sprang (rom my Chair, threw the blanket aside Tapidity to the end or thelist NBME |” Tiooked at him amazed. much in common that I always-found her an | Pushed the bandage up on my forehead, and rapidity ; “I mean only,” Istammered—“I mean mo- berbard should, | St from behind the screen. ble companion; but that “Is it possible, Miss Lizzie, that you know | q.1 can only.” I stammered—«T 1 Sioss bs dawn Gurl bare ae our guilty conscience says that .” I cried. Latin? and so well!” Mi . 4 ora, | posed it required somethi a n, You know how you have coquetted with Mr. Albert and I laughed heartily at the question, | {yl ¢xcent when some one calls her attention | Pret jy rcauired, something in to Interest bine | Eberbard, and’ tried, uot im cain, perhaps, to Rane nein renee team AD fhe words: Cx; | “Your mother—yes, perhaps that is possible; | but now saw her lead himeasily into a domain | alicnate him from me! You have flowers in essed the test astonishment Eberhart | put “> He paused, and aided ins propitia. | that rarely ever rose above the trivial. ft enone Bodh ag ied — m Bengge Re isappeared from lo, Window, and tone, “but you are beautiful, my dear, if In conrequence of the operation,and of being tae sea aaa Ghee d more, ataver we] thought at tet,” he began, you had only | the axes if your eyes are not parallel.” ileptived of freah air and exercise, had become | {Re occasion; and for what, for w => icked ue @ littlefrom peur’ olier brothers’ | & No,” said I, and my eves welled with tears, | somewhat nervous and irritable. and, theroters a Bat, I have sod, uavertee: = ae hy Je 1 your 7 | “I know very well I am not beautiful, nor am 1 | Was a unpleasan' ’ . | eyes bandaged? But, I have by Jests 3 ee “For heaven's sake, be calm!” cried Eber- hard, in evidént terror. ased. “I have seen But I was not to be ap} how you have flirted ‘wich each other, how he has held your hand and admired your handsome fiected ly le and witticisms that, under ordinary circum stances, would perhaps have amused me. Casi never seemed to tire of taking Charlotte's ball of thread, and doing all kinds of ‘mischief with it. At one time he would unwind it till she would scold, then he would wind it up to her rich, either. “Child. what nonsense! Have I ever seemed to care whether you wer rich or not?” “No matter, Vhave heard you say you would never Marry & Woman who was not rich.” “Fie! fief what does the tongue not say when “Oho!” cried Albert, at the of his voice, “onr little learned Lizzie knows her Virgil and Cwsar with the best of them, I can tell you. 1 wish I only knew them haif as well!” There was an expression of such utter amaze- ment in Eberlard’s face that we could not help : ”'T eontinned. “I have seen the glances it is unchecked by the heart! “And yon—did I | hand; at another he would have the presum kan ing again. “ y | to watch bis eityeas ix you have exchanged, and have heard every ‘ou are the first lady I have ever seen who | i Lear You sa Ia meyer’ seattG try tee Cote | hes pockets Set ce cee ay, sue Dall into | Toca that hea passed between you, even those knew Latin,” satd he. «Had I known this be- | THUR Jou, ous mever ma | out—things, which 1, of course, did mot ses guy | Poken in the lowest tones. Oh, Love, or, if you fore came, I should have imagined the daugh- | Pic? Was tene ahd I'could not help laughMg. | wich Chavlottets reac Ses, a blow on nis | like it better, Jealousy, has sharp eyes and still that ft oend kee ot Miend very different from} sr think’ we Bave sufficient proof of our mid: i ete.,enabled me todiying, ‘They would | sharper ears, and I Know that you are both Wiknd when 1 acked, “How so?” the reply was | ‘ual love,” he continued, “since vou ‘are not | often faugh heartily, when I could wot (aegine “You have seen, Elizabeth! how was that in accordance with-the notions that have pre- rich, and I am not even a baron; and as for your | the cause, and, if I asked the reason, it is doubt. ex" ~ | i. le? But you have the bandage now off walled since the Uane of Moses and thebulrusies | Heatty—" The words seemed ‘to stick in his | y always answered truthfully. | Possibl yo ful whether they throat. these Gn cue of fet arg oe your eyes! Do you know that you endanger Late and pedals Tae thy gtd: | “Al, my evest”* I cried, and buried my face | came behind the sercen that wren frens | ihe success of the operation?” remonstrated Eh. ugly, = ween en aera in my hands; ‘what a source of uulapplaess | the rest of the reom, and said? “You inust not | hard. ‘i e you,” added Eberhard, “a veritable Amarylis, | 10 have always been te mo allow our nonsense to make you “Yes,” I cried, pushing him from me, ‘the even to the rake.” Luad picked upone a few | " “ibbut, my dear Lizsie, thatis yourdwn fault,” | Lissie!™ aed bandage is off my eyes! | Xou have never loved mL etree could neta ni” eald T, «why | Eberhard replied.” ” | ah pressed his hand nervously, anderied: “an, | me! Why did 1 floor Ames penby Pienghigeg te think It 0 st that a girl should Pr ye ps; but I can. help thinking of en glad [shall be when 1 got ont of “I eration? But, then I ap blind blind, and Fearn Latin, when they thi yery natural | “s:Nor would I ha: help thinki ; | “And how much I admire the patient resig- | “2! oe . 2 | Fg eee Pea inatene learn French, Eng- | on the; coutrary, I ‘would have you thin Cetin: | nation with which you endure this, capa payee pul geste a a This was the starting point of quite a lengthy | Fuabatag's 66+ WP courage to have the defect | ment, for, Only a woman coult’ do fe 1 "sone | even rich! The bond that united us is broken Place between to, wad T came thesis anit | I let my hands, which ti now had covered | fets a few minutes In the sombre hole ig gains | never to be rene Tt eee Jos Save beck n us,'and I can, therefore, truly face, sink into my lap, and looked ee ot | Cnough for me!™ your pledge!” Aud I shook from my finger say that our acquaintance began with the ac- inquiringly. He made ‘a gesture as | ‘(And Tam, T assure yon, not so selfish ax to | mY engagement-ring, which was now too large, cusattve. : 2 { he would turn iny left eye outs Tunder- | want to detain you longer than your inclinations | 40d it fell from the table, before which I stood, oe eae giaies sees 10 2. we. his pantomimic reply perfectly, but I did | prompt you to remain,” sald T, releasing his | {0 the floor. +e armen wee man,” said Eberhard, ‘than real culture-eolkl | O°¢ ook ‘down, or this tias sree leet | hand. ae me cehy ae nent, t2 Fe here’ any | Chair behind the gereen, drew my blanket over ttainments; but we i pest vin Borarely: ©%-|| was too to-read thoexpression of longer than Pam competied to, Lassure you.” | Me, and wept—wept as though my heart would peciall; ! uy | face. ‘And that will not be long. ’ You will on Pray; Chance to form sich a notable and praise- | “What do you mean, Carl?" I asked. released, and Mise Charlotte too” he reonet | Preproach tempered in Eber- fe Rp pas how did you acquire so much maNPY, I mean—i mean that you should sub- and returned to where she sat before the win, lrg oho bgp ad have : to an operation.” A | tention to Charlotte, So much knowledge! I knew well that I, in li was ‘ This confinement has alread: her eyes cast don, the very TST wae anne | Sram re estes | ese LSA emia cuanto js o to the ground. a . “How did I acquire what little I know?” I } “pyaar eo my hand and wanted to caress |__ ‘Ha! how can yon tell any thing about Char- | however, in my grief indi * asked. | me, but! involuntarily drew it away from him | lotte’s complexion in the dark?” T cried out to | only to ste if he protested against the breaking- “Yes; that is what I should like to know,’ and rose to my feet. him, in a jocular tone. off of our ei "ment, or against my TSEWWal et schol at teen, te age wien | yoDaaer pw ,suld {rand wae tartodat | ora; bat E mot her yewtertay powe the | tiathead gener ved mos “5 5 N's ar? | square, "he |, 801 i 4 ¥ men— those, atleast, who are Wberat- | the operation would be: attcmdea'' With ‘great | {eseemed to me, “and walked home wir hee? | “Oh Elisabeth? you will be sorry for what ly educated—really begin their ——. I re- | danger?” “Which was quite unnecessary,” Charlotte | you have done,” he exclaimed once, and I un- Peet no cinge then, my only opportunitieshave | ““.es, I know; but—but—there is always | informed him, v emphatically, and there- | derstood him to mean that he considered our those afforded me by my home associations | more or leas danger attending every impor- | upon they fell into their usual bantering tone, | €™ ment as really at an end. I saw and teacher has been my — but I | tant surgical ion;” he stammered. As | While I geflected that Carl, on his way ta see me, | clearly that, in the hope acne wife, have Nacimarily betel very all any | 1 made no reply, he began again, after some | had turned back toescort her. «‘Heavengrant,” | he was ready to give me up, and that the studies, and, what you are os utes: ! I said to myvelf, “that I may. not be a sickly | mgt rey Be yd — sip aia. arning, @ man you would, I am sure, rs i | wife, for that is clearly so: uld not ‘or came per! 8001 all only'a superficial ‘smattering. So little 1s | gece tetic Leanty that tiie detent ia ee anibete | engine!” vi he could not | «inly very opportuncly, for if mad hin ‘amd det of @ woman in the higher branches | shock in an otherwise spoticas marble states, | ‘Then suddenly the question suggested itself | Charlotte appear in ai gly unfavora- of that a little goes @ great | and I love vou so, #0 fonily, that I would sec | why he did not come to me after seeing her. vie light. in you that Nature intended you to “Let us both consider the matter for a few Lome, and the reply came to me quite as readi- “From this theme we went to others of a kin-; them an intimation of his reasons for do- ‘How the affair ‘affected them I could not decide; but certain i is that their anxiety, with terms, that he was well satisfied with the sudden ehai ™ So ay eee le am a now be pened. the I should have | — pyeelt mec hovt deen, out of — | — jeoget decid ban tae ea eee t stances.” A« for my eves, they seemed to be doing well; at all events, they did not burn, as they had fre- } uently, during the previous seven or eight j poo hy I ow ‘on alert to discov. was Passing at the window be- | hind me. Dr. Waltchstels anxiety concern- ing his patient Prompted him to come again in the evening; but, finding me comparatively uiet and well, he put off the examin: | tion A peek we aus morning. He, a oe some time aud convers-d with stayed that even! er than usual. at evening much tong- | Mother insisted on reranining wi ith me; but patient and nurse slept sounaly the whole ight through, and awoke the next And the final result of the ? It was all that could have been desired—it was | etmiens; and; when I contemy even ‘A grateful |, bat for whom, I often said, t never have submitted to the operation” To which my husband, Dr. W: In, would reply: j BC red upon it, im, bat le would have needed no wit- | | and the (GENERAL SaTURE—N, iy + manner whatever; the oMoes of said shal! acant, the if all Coase to ex- , January 24, ty AN ACT transferring the control of certain tor- ritorial penitentiaries to the-several Territo ries in which the same are located. Be it enacted sentatives of the U Wroming, ahd Cole control of the respective United Sr shals for said Terri and the care and ‘usted States of 4 therefor, a1 heged Person 0 imprisoned. Suc. 2. That immediately afver the passage of by the Senate and House of Repre merica in Com So Much ot the act eRtitiod placing the’ peniten tories of Montana, Idaho, rado unter the care amd rates mar tories, ts hereby custody of said penitentiarios, P Pp y thereutto be! | and the use and ocr: thereof, are transferred to Territories, respecti vei ‘until otherwise ordered by the Attorney Gow = title to said pemi- shall continue to vest im this act the Attorney General of the United States shall cause to be transferred tothe you urging, after thorities v ‘erritaries of Monta: “ft sho Pemsing as you hare the daily results achieved ‘Wyoming, and Oclorade, the peaiantiones eal al rh, i nalAh, but for the operation you would never | [i cach of sani Turtitorien hs “ea ave known me. . Approved, January 16:3. QB Hump! that is not so certain. Did I not pact Finches Sa roe tt the time that you had long interest- (GeweRrat NatTCRE—No. md. “Oh, it the oculist I As Act to fix the time for holding the annaai are always looking out f subjects’. ry ape 7 im, intance; it he got ahead of me. ie r pines lead= not aths; they enhance trne. I was, in- my life by a peril- ith me this was eminent deed, led to tne happiness ous path. And, the minor blessings of which I have been the recipiout, thauks't a hust parents loved as a son.and of whom I have been ever proud, I have been blessed with am abundance of that, without which, in Eberhard’s mistaken fancy, no home could be happy—wealth !”” Carl in due time married Charlotte, a pre- sumptive heiress, and certainly a spoiled child. At the death of her father, however, whith fol- lowed close on the beels of their marriage, it was found that the ion of the sup heiress was next to notuing. Eberhard, there- fore, found that he had been greatly deceived, and Charlotte, I fear, was not less so. In ex ternals, she tried hard to keep up a show of ele- gance, but her ele; was always somewhat | old-fashioned, and sometimes even shabby. Of the appearance of the inside of her house, and of ber chikiren, I know nothing, except from hearsay. I have never spoken with Eberhard since we parted at the institute; if we chanced to mect n the stecet, it was he whose eyes turned away —mine now looked straight ypleton"s Jour= nal. _—— (OFFICIAL) LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES Passed at the Third Sesston of the Ferty= Second Congress. [GENERAL NaTURE—No. 13.) As Act to authorize the examination of certian Be it enacted by the Senate and House of ae sentatives of the United States of America in Con- gress assembled, That the Comptroller of the ‘Currency, in addition to the powers now con- ferred upon him by law for the examination of national banks, is i further authorized, whenever he may deem It nsefal, to cause ex: umination to be made into the condition of am bank in the of Columbia organiz under act of Congress. The Comptroller, at his discretion, may report to Congress the resulta of such examina’ The expense | necessarily —— in the = this act shall be out of any appropriation made by © Ror special bah eeteation. oe Approved, January 20, 1873. ae - (Gewerat yo arena = sofeseg S AcT regulating 1e com! members and officers of the blies of the soversl Be it enacted by the Senate and House sentatives of the United States -s8 assembled, That the ‘ive agsemblies of the United States shall America ions of the * several Territories of the be limited to forty days’ duration. Suc. 2. That the members of each branch of said shall receive a compensation of <2 bow six dollars per day di the sestions herein provided for, and they recetve such mile- age as now wh aban by law: Provided, That the the >. of the use of represe: ves each receive a of ten dollars Eyed and that of of said dollars per day, and of one assistant clerk, one enrolling clerk, one e1 clerk, one ser- End one watchman, who shalt co sation of five dollars per day during the Szc.3. That from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, the annual salaries (GeyERAL waTuRE—No. 15. Ay Act establishing -routes in oe State of | ‘as post- : i East Baldwin, via ye im, ner Depot to Gray Corner, in county of Cumberland. Approved, January 23, 1873. [GENERAL NATURE—No. 16. ntitled i ii HG z $ i 7 ef i li court, States, and for purposce. Be it enacted by the Senate and Howse of sentatives of the United States gress asermbied, me Court of the United of America tn Come and after age of this act the annual session of the Supreme Court of the United States shall commence on the second Monday October in each year, and all actions, sults, appeals, recoguizances, processes, writs, F pendix or which may be ing i all have day therein and he a lings whatever, i” said heard, tried, proceeded with, and decided, in like manner as ifthe time of holding said sessious had not been hereby altered. Approved, January 24 ([Gurenat NATURE —No. 21.) AN Act to authorize the President to appoint Frederick E. Upton, of Bath, Maine, a mas ter in the navy of the U Be mact-d by of the United Sta’ embled, That the , authorized to appoint Frederick E the Sena’ psident be, and Upton, of Bath, Maine, a master inthe United States navy. with the grade in his rank that be heid at the date service. vr to Captain ing the Tevenue steamer ‘ Moccasin,” of leaving the United States [Approved, January 27, 1873, OF GENERAL NATURE—No. 1.) tow tenderi Da the thanks ot Ritchie, com- and the officers and men under his command. Resolved by the Senate and House of Reprearnta- tives of the United Stater America in Congress rseembled, That the thetks of Congress are dur, mi are itchie, ¥ anding tendered, to Captain David the revenne steamer “Moccasin,” and to the officers and men undor his command, for {Appros. red and . Sanuary 24, 1573, G®PANDEsT SCHEME OF THE AGE: $500,000 CASH GIFTS! $100,000 for enly $10. SH GIFTS. ON lot to the Sires sees’ -bolders, a» follows: LIST OF GIFTS. 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