Volume I. C., October 22, 1871. Number 33
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VOLUME I. C., OCTOBER 22, 1871. NUMBER 33. For THE CAPITAL. contemptible fellow, a weakling, a scamp, a ments he was absent, and I anxiously won- had arranged a stout iron pipe as a sheath, ger from the obstructions, and then to await sick, but I believe she intends trying one of her by October. Good Americans, so the saying run.», TIIE YELLOW LEAF: criminal; the'world does not applaud any, dered whether she would receive a letter from |uid discarded entirely the usual signal-line. my return to the surface before proceeding carriage horses?. are expected to come here when they die ; but IN TUB POET'S BOOK. does not hail any as heroes -who resist great me. Friedrich returned, and a hasty glance "All )>eing in readiness, after personally farther. Miss Julia McCoy is spending this winter in very reasonably and practically they make, the "Whisper, Yellow£eaf, to me . temptations. The world is hard, very hard! showed me that his hands were empty; -petting all of the apparatus, I cautiously "Carefully watching the air-tube leading Georgia. I saw Miss Marie McCoy in the park on most of the opportunity offered them to visit Paris Thy forgotten history." v One's own conscience, a secret sense of hap- Blanche had accepted my note. ¡nade my way to the ladder, and having fixed overboard, the engines were started slowly, horseback. She is now taking her first lessons in while alive, if only to get a slight idea of their that so healthful an accomplishment, and with so ^ One far spring-time, green.and young, piness, is the reward. Oh! God, I feel very jny helmet firmly in its place, and secured my and as the ship gathered headway, and the future quarters when dead in the States'. Of On a sunny bough we hung. capable 4n instructor as her father I have no doubt litfle happiness!" it of tools, hammer, saw, chisels, <fcc., to the pipe remained without visible strain, it was course the allusion only concerns good Americans, 11 CHAPTER IX—" LOVE'S LABOR WON." she will soon become an " expert." and their sojourn here is of double interest almost Happiest of green leaves were we, In truth, the consciousness that I had treated trong belt attached for the purpose, began concluded that my ascent had begun, as in Fluttering glad on the green tree. No, dear Ada, Mrs. Backler is still in Paris, also from the fact that owing to the trouble and ex- Blanche without any consideration, and had I now wrote a second letter, addressed .to ay slow descent. truth was the fact.; so instead of coming to Miss Bessie Wo&dville and Mr. R. W. Tyson and " Merrily fairy moonbeams play'd, my man of business at home, intending to pense incurred by several New York bankers set- done my duty wholly uninfluenced by her en- "Fortunately the water was quite clear and after steaming a short distance, the ship was family. Miss Minnie Smith was at Florence when Dancing through our dancing shade. ask the physician, who had promised to call tled in Paris to fit up their respective establish- treaties, did not save me from being utterly |ree from mud, so I had no difficulty in seeing headed for the fleet, arid only came to anchor we last heard from or of lier. Do you remember, ments on a grand scale of elegance and comfort again the next day, to take charge of it and " Deck'd with Morn's lost jewelry, wretched. What did philosophy, reflection, jverything with perfect distinctness. Gradu- when within hail of the flag-ship. The rest I dear Ada, Tom and Dick Boiling, to whom you combined, they are enabled as it were to revisit Full of singing birds were we. or reasoning avail in this matter? The argu- mail it at Noroy. |lly nearing the bottom, for the depth of have told you. introduced me one night, ages ago ? Well, I bad their home in imagination every time they are I had just finished when the abbé entered " Through the May and through the June ments of reason and the example of others rater exceeded the draught of vessel less than "As one result of that day's work, I was a letter from Virginia this morning quite filled called by business to enter their banker's door. We danced every breeze's tune. and informed me that M'lle Blanche wished with on dits, and among other mentions • is the make as little impression upon us in such sit- )ur 'Wet, I became aware of quite a strong sent North on the sick-list, and from that day The firm of Bowles & Brothers, notably, is fitted to speak to me, and, if I was too weak to go Boilings. Dick is engineering and Tom has an ^ Ask not where my kin are flown ; uations as the experience of other men helps arrant setting me against the ship, which, to this, young man," turning to me as he up in such a tasty, refined, handsome manner, and I am old and here alone. up stairs, would come down to my rooms. excellent Situation somewhere in Richmond, and is so complete in all its numerous departments, us in life. The individual peculiarities of our liile lessening my fear of being swept out of spoke, f' I have never been inside a diver's is of course a great beau. He is a good, clever that it is a real-pleasure for Americans to avail " Their far summer-time was brief ; situation exerts their overmastering power " You see I am much stronger, almost well ach of my ladder, rendered working more dress, and never Intend to be again." I am here a Yelfow Leaf. in fact," I interrupted; "may I go to M'lle fellow, but not very brilliant. themselves of the advantages it offers, and many upon us; we always have the feeling that our fficult. As usual, my progress was attended As the old man approached the conclusion, Paymaster and Mrs. Qpldsborough are very Blanche at once? " French bankers would find it to their profit if they ' Sunbeams grew cold and winds grew wild— calamity has something unusual, and as if we r numbers of curious fish, and as I neared he grew quite excited, as indeed had his lis- regular in their attendance at the convention. conducted their' establishments in a similar man- Kiss the Summer's orphan child ! " The abbé bowed—his whole manner was had a special right to rebel against fate. e bottom one or two huge fellows passed teners, and as the tones of his voidte died Our beaus are just now quite distracted on the ner. more formal and constrained than the day be- " Whisper, Yellow Leaf, to me Hundreds of thousands as well as I might bse-'by, but seemed intent on other prey, away, the wind outside, gathering fresh fury, gunning question. Isn't it curious, Ada, how If nations had a little more care, and used more Why.the poet treasures thee." fore—and led the way. I followed him in a have been forc&d to renounce their wishes for ,ving me in peace. seemed to shake the old house to its very insane men get on this subject ? Now there is discernment in their own interest, and if humanity 1 state of mind by no means easy to be de- Frank Tyson, out four days, comes home fagged That far Spring, when we were young, the sake of duty, but not one of them was '' Once or twice I was somewhat startled by a foundation. .instead of sighing perpetually after the cloudy scribed. out, with twelve squirrels and several partridges. laurels of war would only prove itself grateful In our shade a maiden sung ; thereby compelled to resign such a girl as avy splash overhead, and a dull thud, fol- Simon Weaver is dead, but his memory 4 We passed through the well-known drawing- He niay^isive bought them, and I've no doubt he and obligee! to men of skill and science occupied And his life a blossoming tree, Blanche.! As Blanche! oh! God, how every rwed by the rapid descent of a shot or shell will long be kept fresh and green among those room into the small boudoir, which I had sup- did ; and for this he got up at break of dawn and by useful and beneficial enterprises, the past week Danced with leaves as glad as wo. fiber of my heart clung to her; and yet I must thin easy view, and as it would settle into who succeed to his profession, as one kind to scoured the country for miles. would hold a most honorable and merited place ' But those blissful leaves at last posed tChe occupied by Mme. Kulin, on the vi tear her from it. How truly I felt that I could e soft, oozy bottom, a tiny cloud of mud all and brave beyond compare. Dr. Tom Williams is here attending the con- in the history of the nineteenth century, for after Flutter'd, falling, to the Past. occasion of my first visit. The apartment not live without her, and yet I must go away buld for a moment obscure it from view. I vention, and do you know, entirely-«»¿re nous, he the opening of the Suez canal, the piercing of 1 into which I was ushered was a very hand- Sovfsi^approaHung (he subject of per- See his song, along with me, without the faintest hope of seeing her again.