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—_—_— Aa hour before, she spoke of things, That memory to the dying brings, And kiss’d me all the while ; Then, after some sweet parting words, She seem’d among her flowers and birds, Until she fell asleep.
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And muse on all the happy talk We had beneath the limes ; And, resting on the garden seat, Her old Newfoundland at my feet, I think of other times : |
Of golden eves when she and I
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But when the daylight dies away, And ships grow dusky in the bay, These recollections cease e And in the stillness of the night, Bright thoughts that end in dreams so bright, Communicate their peace, I wake and see the morning star, And hear the breakers on the bar, The voices on the shore : And then, with tears, I | mg to be Acryss a Cim unsounded sea, With her for evermore. —Household Words.
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| Courtship under Difficulties. A HUMOROUS HISTORY.
FROM THE GERMAN OF FERDINAND STOLLE.
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take you into partnership. A few years more, and I retire altogether, and vou are a made man. My old friend the eounsellor warmly desires the alliancg. Not all wooers find their path so smooth. I ran myself nearly off my legs after my dear departed wife. The old peopie were against it, and would not listen to me. Luck lies before you, my boy ; seize it with both hands.”
‘** All very well,”’ thought I, as I got into the gig and drove off; ** but my hands are bound, and my heart too. What is money compared to Minnie? One lock of her lovely hair | waa make the old counsellor’s money-bags kick the beam ?) And even if she were not in the way, I hate these mercenary unions got up by third parties, where everything is for the purse, and nothing for the heart. To pleasure my uncle, however, I can yery well manage to get through a few days at Wiesenthal, and see the counsellor’s graces on their best behaviour. I owe much more than that to my kind kinsman and second father. I wi!l look at the ladies, but there is no fear of my marrying one of them. Poor dear Minnic! But if the Frager girls are such beauties, besides being fortunes, what on earth is the reason that none of them have yet got married ?* I should not wonder if the glitter of their thirty thousand dollars had somewhat blinded my ee uncle, it would notsurprise me if one of them squinted, and another had red hair, But there is no harm in going to see.”’
Thus communing with myself, I rolled pleasantly along the {level road, in the warm autumn sun, through mile after mile of dew-spangled orchard. Those were my romantic days, and ; nothing would have pleased me better than to have met with |an adventure or two by the way. These were denied me ; but, }upon the other hand, an abundance awaited me at the place of my destination.
It was betayeen nine and ten in the forenoon when T reached the neighbourhood of the rich counsellor’s fine domain. The
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back to dinner. I ventured a conjecture that they were ona visit somewhere. Not a bit of it, was the reply ; cach one of them had gone her own way, and on her own business. Business ! thought I to myself, what business can these young
| ladies possibly have? And I fervently trusted it was not that
of waylaying travellers, and shooting at hats with heads in them. :
** Though I cannot show you my family,”’ quoth the coun- sellor, when I had done eating, *‘ if you will come with me into the next room, I will make you acquainted with their portraits.”’
{ followed Mr. Frager. Beaming out of their goiden frames were three of the handsomest female faces man’s eyes ever rested upon. But my admiration was converted into some- thing like terror, when I recognised in one of the portraits the redoubtable guerilla who, one short hour before, had sent a bullet within six inches of my head.
** This blonde,” said Frager, playing the showman, “is my eldest girl, Louisa, a terrible madeap and hair-brained ‘puss, who should have been a boy. I always call her my Nimrod, for she is passionately fond of hunting, and rides and shoots to
rfection. Lowe that [am not partial to such tastes in young adies, but youth and high spirits must be allowed their way, and as the girl is a real angel in every other respect, and has the best heart in the world, [ tolerate her cavalier customs.”
** As regards the young lady’s shooting,” I replied, ‘* L have had some experience of it myself this morning. She sent a bullet through my hat as I walked up to the house.”” And I related my adventure. The counsellor tried to look indignant, but his frown melted into a smile.’’
‘* Just like the gipsy,”’ he said. «* But you had nothing to fear. Her hand is steady and her aim sure.”’
‘*] will take the liberty. to remark that I do not think such masculine accomplishments particularly becoming in a young lady.”’
moraing was so fine, the country so beautiful, that [ determined
drive from Wiesenthal, and to proceed thither on foot. Per- haps, also, if truth be told, | was not sorry to stop at the inn | to get rid of the dust of the highway, and arrange my dress a jlittle. FE had certainly no desire to please any. one of the
to disadvantage before them. The disorder of my toilet re- paired, I set out on my walk, and soon came in sight of the counsellor’s villa. A small bireh wood lay before me, through |) Which I had to pass, and then [ should he in the garden, which | stretched up to the house. As I proceeded [ looked about me ,onall sides, thinking I might by chance desery one of the three graces from which it was my uncle’s will, but not my intention, that L should sclecta wife. The only woman I saw | were two peasants toiling in a field. I was about te enter the j wood, whem at some two hundred paces from me, the slender | figure of a woman, attired in a fantastical costume, between (a riding-habit and a hunting-coat, and bearing a double-
uncle—who, since the death of my parents, had supplied their( barrelled gen in her hand, stepped out from among the foliage. place te me—at a pleasant country-house within an easy dis- | !aning upon her weapon, sue seemed enjoying the charming | cleverest surgeon in the whole neighbourhood. She is just
tance of his manufactory.
to me, and although he bad not objected to my prolonging my university life rather beyond the usual age, when I finally | quitted Jona he strongly urged me to turn my attention to industrial pursuits, holding out to me the prospect of becoming his partner, anc ultimately sole proprietor of his profitable ‘ business. Aceordingly. for apwards of a year I applied my- | Self tu master the mysteries of looms and shuttles, correspond- ence and accounts, although these were much less to my taste than the tranquil life 1 had led at Jena, studying little law,
Unele Reinhold was much attached | #ndscape.
** If that be one of Frager’s daughters,’’ thought 1 to my- self, «+ Uncle Reinhold was not so far wrong. A fine girl she | Nets
to leave my gig at a roadside inn, about a quarter of an hour’s |
|three Misses Frager, but that was not a reason for appearing |
i Certainly not, certainly not,’’ replied the fond father. |‘ You are quite right, and I preach to her every day. But it | goes in at one ear and out at the other. Andif’ [-get serious! | angry, se throws her arms round my neck, and vows she will | be a better girl, and leaves me no rest till [ forgive and kiss her. Then off she goes, and good resolutionsare all'forgotten. | L confess my weakness; I have not the heart to thwart the ehild.”’ | ‘The next portrait was that of the second daughter, Emily | by name. It was that of one of the handsomest brunettes I evcr |saw—a lofty commanding style of beauty, but the features wore an unmistakable expression of masculine earnestness and decision. [I stood lost in admiration before the beautiful eountenance. The counsellor noted, with evidentsatisfaction, the effect it produced a me. | ‘* That is my Dieffenbach,”’ he said. | ** Your Dieffenbach!’’ Trepeated, wondering what on earth ‘the name of the renowned surgeon had to do there.
‘The same,’ replied Frager, smiling. ‘‘ Emily is the
jnow down at the village, helping the doctor to amputate the _ hand of a gamekeeper who has had an accident with his gun.”* | ‘* A fine profession.’’ 1 remarked, not knowing what to isay ; and [ turned, with somewhat altered feelings from the
Not wishing to distur) the graceful apparition in her con-| portrait of the fair Esculapius. The third portrait was not
ceived her. “4 had taken bat a few steps when a
templation Of the scenery, f walked on as if I Jad not per-| less charming than the other two. Rich masses of brown hair voice, | shaded a countenance whose features were more delicate and
melodious but powerful, shouted ** Hult !*’ That cannot be| its expression sofier than in that of either of the other sisters.
| , |addressed to me, thought I to myself, and walked on. Then
|came a souzd like the cocking of a gun, and the next instant
Let us hope,’’ I thought te myself, ** that this one has no such extraordinary and unwomanly tastes as Nimrod aud
but diving deep into our foble German classies, and storing |# bullet whistled, as it seemed to me, closeoyer my head. The | Dieffenbach. She looks milder and ‘more feminine.’?
. . . * So my mind from the works of the best prose-writers and poets, Before the year was half out, I fell deeply in love, but this |
| hint sufficed, and T halted at once.
| ** The woman must be erzzc4,’’ thought I, as I gazed at the dared not tell my uncle. Minnie was the sweetest fairy that | reckless amazon, who walkea slowly towards me. I had |
eyer tripped over a lawn without doubling a daisy ; her hair | leisure to observe her, and to admire her remarkable beauty.
was of the richest auburn, her eyes were of the deepest blue, | ; : eile , | fitting habit, and her blooming countenance by a profusion of
her mouth was a rosebud, and with my hands I could span
her waist, but—alas! that terrible 6ut—she lacked one thing | fair curls. : _ |a form should be that of a mad woman. When she arrives |
, which my uncle set above all the graces ever combined in a | goddess. Her mother, the widow of a poor clergyman, lived upon a scanty pension, and Minnie was dowerless. So we kept our loves a profound secret, and trusted to time and the
built and co:nmodious Dwelling pehapter of accidents. Both young, we could afford to wait, | land, confident in each other's aff-ction, the possibility of; ¥
“another union never entered the head of either of us.
My uncle frequently spoke to me of matrimony. He ad- vocated my early marriage—perhaps a little from selfish motives, for he joyously anticipated the charm a young and
f years, as agreed upon, graceful woman would bring into his dwelling, and the delight he |
should have in dandling a grand-nephew on his knee. Warm- hearted and generous, he yet in everything was completely the man of business, and he looked upon it as a settled matter, that, although [ had very little fortune of my own, my €x- pectations from him should ensure me a rich wife. This idea )svemexd so rvvted in hig mind, that it sometimes oecasioned me uneasiness. [| foresaw Some anger and mach opposition when the day should come, and come it must. that I should confess to him my love for sweet penniless Minnie. _ One morning, in the usual bundle of letters eame one which _seemed to give my uncle unusual satisfaction. I ‘supposed it ,to contain a large and profitable order, for those were the
letters over which he generally rubbed his hands, twinkled |
his eyes, and gaye other unmistakeable marks of contentment. ‘To my surprise, instead of tossing it over to me, with an /exulting ** There my boy !”? he carefully folded it up and put _itintg the breast-pocket of his coat. All that day he was in ja state of particular exhilaration. At dinner he said Jittle, , but something agreeable evidently occupied his mind. At last, | when, at evening, he had established himself in his easy-chair /at the open window, his meerschaum in his mouth, a flask of | golden Rhenish at his clbow, a lovely landseape and gorgeous sunset before hita, the mystery was revealed. The letter was from his old friend, Counsellor Frager, who lived on his _ pleasant domain of Wiesenthal, about a day and a half’s drive from us. The counsellor, whom I had twice seen at my uncle's since my return from college, was a wealthy widower with three marriageable daughters, whom I had’ not seen. My uncle, it appeared, had lately been in correspondence with him respecting the propriety of bringing about a union between me and one of the young ladies, who were reputed handsome ; and that morning’s letter contained the counsellor’s full ac- _quiescence in the scheme, and an invitation for me to pass a ‘few days at Wiesenthal. In vain did I raise obstacles, and declare my conviction that none of the Misses Frager would ‘suit me. Unele Reinhold had the ready reply that I could not tell that until I badseen them. After making all possible ob- _jections, I felt that to persist longer might excite suspicions of a prior attachment. And, after all, it was but a week’s ab- sence, and no unpleasant escape from the monotony of the counting-house. All that | was required to do was, to go and see the damsels, who, I was assured would not carry me off and marry me by foree. But whenI told Minnie of my approach-
ing departure, I thought she would have broken her heart. enamoured of a Zouave. I looked cautiously around me as I!
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| within twenty paces of me— ‘ | «Why did ye not halt,” she asked, in commanding tones, i** when I ordered you ?”’
l really knew not what to reply tothe imperious beauty ; so I aried the subject.
**If Ldid not mistake,’’ I said, «I heard a bullet whistle ‘rather ii@ar me.”’ | ** Aneyouafraid of bullets?”’ | ** Well—there may be cases.’’ ‘** For shame ! a man should never be afraid, least of all of a ‘lady. You thought I should hurt you. Do you take me for |an assassin, ur for 2a bad shot ?’’
‘+ Neither, upon my word.”’
“* There is a fine apple hanging over your head. Lay it oa |your palm, stretch out your arm, and I will shootit of. Will you bet that f don’t?” ‘ | **T am not fond of such bets.”’
6 Afraid again ?”’
** Every man has his moments of weakness.”’
** Poltroon !”’ scornfully exclaimed this demon in petticoats, raised her gun, and levelled it at my head. | ** For God’s sake!" I eried, but before the words were out of my mouth came the flash and report. I thought I should | have failen to the ground. Yo a dead certainty the monster |had hit my hat.
‘** Take off your hat,”’ said she. I mechanically obeyed. {There wasa hole close to the crown. I shuddered from head | to fuot. | ** Where are you going to?’’ said the terrible markswoman. Not to anger her, I replied, as courteously as possible—
** To Wiesenthal ; to Counsellor Frager’s.”’
** Beware of his daughters,”* said the female fiend, with a
‘laugh that reminded me ef the wild huntsman. And she dis- |
\appeared in the wood. It may be supposed that I did not | linger long in so dangerous a neighbourhood. The lady might take a fancy to load again. I made the best of my way {towards the house, wondering as I strode aloug, whether Wiesenthal was a Turkish province, or whether we were back again in the middle ages, when people shot at peaceable
e! Was she a goblin, 2 wood demon, whose occupation was | to frighten men, or real flesh and blood? If the latter, where had she acquired this preternaturai dexterity with the gun, and the abominable habit of firing at travellers? Handsome she undoubtedly was, but when the devil disguises himself, he does not assume the ugliest form. And my thoughts reverted | to my pretty gentle Minnie, a less imposing beauty, but a far safer companion than the lunatic William Tell, whose warning against the counsellor’s daughters also reeurred to my mind. 1 would not allow myself to suppose that the sharpshooter was one of Frager’s daughters ; but if she was, and her sisters re- sembled her, there was no danger of my falling in love with one of them. I shouid as soon have thought of becoming
beng for pure pastime. What could this semi-assassin |
** That is my Oken,”’ said Frager.
‘What? The naturalist?’’
“The same. This, my youngest daughter, was baptised by the name of Ernestine, but I always cail her my Oken. No professor knows more of zovlogy, ornitholog -ichthyology, ner anda few other hard-named sciences. She is | passionately fond of the study of nature, notwithstanding the cecasional disagreeables connected with it.’’
ss [ isagreeables ?”’
‘‘Cortaimly, From her wanderings over hill and dale, ‘through thicket and forest, the girl brings home so much ‘vermin that I have repeatedly been quite angry with her. | Snakes and lizards, frogs and toads, are continually crawling, | writhing and jumping about the house. She is particularly |attached to spiders, of which she has a splendid collection. If youcould procure her an American tarantala, which is the object of her most ardent desires, you would at once attain a high place in her esteem. You should see Oken’s boudoir,” | concluded the happy father; ‘* you would never think you | were ina lady’s apartment, but in a museum of natural his-
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| My dear sir,”’ I exclaimed, now completely astonished, | ‘* how is it that your amiable daughters have become addicted to such extraordinary and unfeminine pursuits ?”’
‘““The cause is soon told, my dear Mr. Frank,’’ replied Prager; ‘* they had the misfortune to lose their mother verv |young. My occupation rendered it impossible for me to attend to their education, and I thought I had done all that was ‘necessary when I entrusted the girls to a tutor highly re- /commended to me, but who brought them up like boys. heir ‘only companion was their brother Remerd, since unhappily drowned when studying medicine at the university. freak him the sisters learned and inherited their various passions— Louisa her riding and shooting, Emily her surgery, and _ Ernestine her natural history. I live in hopes that when they ‘are well married they will be weaned from their strange fancies ; housekeeping will not leave them much time for | shooting and operating, or for collecting frogs and snakes. I
feel that I ought to have been stricter with the girls, but the | harm is done now, and J can but hope in the future.”’ I was far from displeased at the counsellor’s revelations. | The peculiarities of the three beautiful sisters justified op- _ position to my uncle’s wishes. He could not expect me to | take to wife a Nimrod, a Dieffenbach, oran Oken. The thing was dhsurd. No amount of gold and beauty could atone for ‘such unwomanly eccentricitics, At the same time,I was curious to see the two younger sisters. They must be very beautiful. 1 was less anxious for another meeting with Miss Nimrod. The whistle of her ballets still resounded in my ears. The female Frieschutze was capable of shooting the cigar from my mouth, or the rose from my button-hole. Iam “not fond of such practical jokes.
| We had hardly returned into the breakfast room when there was barking of dogs without, and Louisa dashed into the court ona snow-white palfrey. Nothing could be more graceful ‘and charming than this slender daring amazon in her well- fitting habit. She sprung lightly from thesaddle, and hurried into the house. From the window the counsellor watched her with ill-onceald pride and satisfaction. The door few open, ' Louisa entered in, and, without taking the slightest notice of /me, threw her arms round her father’s neck. ** Mad girl!”’ cried Frager, with a most ineffectual attempt
Her confidence in me was great, but the circumstances were hurried through the wood, every moment expecting to see the at severity of tone, *‘do you not see there isa guest in the _certainly trying. She could not endure my being thus driven terrible double-barrei peering ‘through the bushes. Uneas room, a worthy friend of mine?”
_into temptation. She had heard of the counsellor’sdaughters in the forests of the Hudson, with Pawnees upon his trail, | r ' as very handsome and yery rich. She doubted not my truta, could not have reconnoitred more carefully. Atlast [emerged beauty, glowing with recent exercise, measu
Rearing her elegant form to its full height, the wayward me with a
but she had forebodings of evil, and implored me not to leave from the trees, and breathed more freely as I entered the gar- glance that spoke engiies but friendly weleome, A sarcastic
her. I had promised my uncle togo, however, and I could not retract my word. It took a great many yows, and not a few kisses, to console the little timid loving girl, and even then she was but half consoled.
Befare my departare [had another grave interview with m uncle. ‘+ You will not regret your journey, Frank,”’ he said. ‘« The girls are pretty, witty and well read. Not geese, such
must rab up your learning, I can tell you. And the chief thing is, that each of them will have her thirty thousand
den. My wish had been for adventures, and I was punished by its fulfilment. Romance and danger were certainly com- bined in the one I had just met with. é
The worthy counsellor gaye me a hearty reception, and
_made me welcome to Wiesenthal. I must be hungry. he said, |
‘after my drive, and calling a servant, he bade him bring re- freshment. Cold
,and lamented the absence of his daughters, whom he was
Charlottetown, P. E. Island. deliars. Bring me home such a golden niece as that, and 1 most desirous to introduce to me. He hoped they would be
. me and a bottle of Steinberger were soon | : as one finds in our Kirchberg and other country villages. You on the table, and truly I wanted something to revive me after sellor, with some displeasure : ** my recent peril. My friendly host phdged me in a bumper, |
smile played about her beautiful mouth, which Diana might have envied. | ‘If Ido not mistake,” said she coldly, ‘I have already made the gentleman’s acquaintance.”’
**T had the honour,” replied 1, with a bow, ** to serve you as a target.”’
‘1 wish you had behaved better, Louisa,”’ said the coun- ou are really incorrigible.
‘*So he has blabbed already,” said the damsel soornfall ‘ ‘Only think, papa,’ she added, turning to Prager, ** the young wan was frightened, and thought 1 would kill him*
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