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VOLUME II. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., NOVEMBER 10, 1872. NUMBER 36.

Tor THE CAPITAL. children with whom he had played long ago. could not burn all those thoughts of which adapted for so little a couple. Superficially us old sailors and quite accustomed to going cart were two market women and a baby. Their only Nature as his counselor. One day to the seeing my ennui, my pale and tearless grief at aloft, but we agreed that this was rather more united weight would be not far from four hun- falls of GeisBback, where the hotel proprietor your departure, they amiably persuaded papa to THE LAST. And withal she was very neat. If any com- the paper was only a copy. observed the furniture resolved itself into an enormous clock and a monstrously fine airy than any sky-sailmast that we had ever dred pounds. We judged this from their sitting gives you about twenty seconds of wonderful allow me to accompany them. We arrived yes- BY FANNY DOWNING. mandment was issued especially to the PART II. scraped. We were all practical Yankees too, posture, for neither of the ladies thought proper terday morning, and after breakfasting Clara mirror; but after a while you might remark illumination, with colored lights, of the water, French, it enjoined tidiness; but this child L'amitié passe le gant. and it was a consideration among us what was to descend, but took an immense draught of and a swindling bill as the finale In the morn- and I started out in the gayest of spirits pre- A woman lay In her lace-htrag bed. four-small chairs and a great one, a bureau, And a white-robed priest pat by her side, , was so quietly attired, that her cleanliness If the creamery had seemed lonely by gas- the use of running the steeple up so far when beer, that was brought out to them to wash ing. Then followed trips to Lauterbrunnen and pared to see the town. While grisly Death, with his stealthy tread, seemed & matter of nature, not of command. light, what must Ralph 'Flare have said of and a , a sofa and a canopied bed; you can see everything you want to see on this down the bread and cheese with which they Staubbach, lovely cascades and Ice caves in the I will spare you details of our shopping ex- Was coming to claim her, his stolen bride. Her cheap coral ear-drops, and the thin it next morning, as he sat in his old place and just without the two gorgeously cur- fiat country at half the height ? This question were already provided, at the same time that glaciers ; and with dancing at the hotels in the perience, which was delightful, I assure you, The light bnrned low In the perfumed lamp— band of gold upon her white finger, could and watched the ouvriers at breakfast? tained windows lay a cunning balcony, was answered by a cute Down-East captain, who the infant took its nourishment filtered through evening the Snooks family was pretty well ex- but which I am well aware you wouldn't appre- concluded that "it was originally intended for the pure veins of its healthy-looking mother. ciate. You always admired Clara, I know, but Oft It had lighted her lover there; not have been so fitting had they been of They came in, one by one, with their baton where they could sit of evenings, with the hausted, and enjoyed the lovely scenery, and The wind from the river, chill and damp. diamonds; and her tresses, inclosed in a old ruin of the Hotel Cluny beneath them, a windmill to run those everlasting bells down The ostler—of which the original is most cer- the quiet as well, of the lake of Brienze, and when you see her wear the bewitching bonnet Uplifted the wavcB of her shining hair. of brown bread, and called for two sous' fillet of beads, were tied in a breadth of the towers of Notre Dame in the middle below, blow the organ, and work all that Catho- tainly horseler—was in this instance the dogster, the diversity of a day's ride by diligence to she bought at Madame Guerin'a you will have worth of coffee and milk. The men wore lic machinery round the altar that now goes by for which no such corruption as ostler exists— Lucerne. This town, shabby in itself, but with to surrender your heart at once. Everything round her with luxury teemed: blue ribbon, which made a cunning lovers- ground, and at the horizon the beautifully of blue and white, and jested after hand." The day was clear, but In the direction well, the dogster came out and Slipped: the har- Pictures; her birds in their burnished cage-,; wooded hill of Père la Chaise. its real "lion" in stone, and the lake, and the You have recently visited the picture galle- The rings on her fingers that glowed and gleamed ; knot above. A plain collar and , the Gallic code with the sewing girls. This of Brussels there was a mist upon the horizon, ness from the dogs, who forthwith trotted up mountains beyond to keep it in countenance, ries here, so I will talk to you about what we Suzette had tristful eyes when they rested The glided book with its rose-marked page; a bright cotton and dark , and a bread and coffee, and a pear which they so that the city could not be discerned ; but we to the tub and drank freely, after which the has guests enough to always fill the superb saw at Schaus & Goupil's some other time. delicate below—these were the com- should eat at noon, would give them upon this cemetery. Her baby lay there, had good views of Malines, Ghent, Breda, Flush- dogster brought them perhaps two pounds each hotels. In speaking of the National Hotel Sufficient to say that an art season of extraor- Her scarlet , so wee and warm; - without a stone—not without a flower. The toys on her toilet rich and rare; ponents of a picture which Ralph thought strength to labor till nightfall brought its ing, and the sea. of meat and vegetables, evidently prepared for there, Mrs. S. said it is one place where the dinary interest and brilliancy is in store for us. The that folded her faultless form; the loveliest and pleasantest and best that frugal repast. Yet they were happy as j "Pauvrepetit Jules!" she used to say, nest- On a very fine day there is a radius of view of such equipages—no, such canipages. Finish- extras did not amount to more than board, ser- We particularly admired Gerome's magnificent ing their meal sooner than their mistresses, And the woman work on the velvet chair. he had ever known. crickets, and a great deal more noisy. ing close to Ralph, and for a little while seventy-five miles. We were actually in too vice, lodging, &c. And no army of impudent painting of "Cleopatra before Csesar," and elevated a position to see Antwerp and its im- they took a short siesta on the grass, and as our servants stood out on either side as you left the some fine works by Meissouler and Cabanal. All things about her, Instinct with life, In his own sober city of the Middle States Here is little Suzette, smiling and skip- they would not speak nor move, but the Living and loving, and drawing breath; he would have been ashamed to connect smoke of his cigar made a charmed circle mediate surroundings, of which we get a better inclination led us to some inner strengthening hotel, waiting for drink geld. This is so uni- Mr. Belmont's private collection is also on view, ping, and driving her glances straight into idea from some of the lower balconies. The at the same time, we waited to see the end of versally the case that, unless you empty your and we purpose to visitr it to-day. She so adored, In such fearful strife. with these innocent features a doubt, a around them, and the stars came out above Yielding, by atoms, her sweetness to death. Ralph Flare's heart. town itself is not remarkable for anything ex- the performance. After a rest of about a quarter purse to these kitchen Jack Cades, they man- We met several Washingtonlans at dinner light thought, a desire. Yet here in France, and the panorama of the great Boulevard Good day, sir," she cries, and takes a cepting its curious old buildings in some quar- of an hour,•the dogster, at the request of the age to make you feel that you are running away yesterday. Among others, Dr. Bliss, who is The breath In her bosom fluttered slow ; where climate, or custom, or man had moved on at their feet. Down bent the priest to her lovely face; chair close by him, after the manner of a ters, the remains of its Spanish existence. The ladies, still seated in the cart, called the dogs from an honest debtor. Mrs. S. sat down more " here on business connected with his health;" "Daughter," he whispered In accents low, changed the relations though not the nature sparrow alighting. She smooths back her Their first difficulties were financial, of streets are as narrow and crooked as an ancient by a noise partly a whistle and partly a grunt. than once, and made a very strict computation also Mrs. Keller and her daughter, Mrs. Wilson, . "Your hour is upon you! God grant you grace 1" of woman, he did but as the world, in blend- pure wristbands, disclosing the grace of the course. Suzette would have liked a silken Bostonian would like to see, »nd although there They submitted quietly to be put to, and off of what the family really had and what they Governor Cooke, Major Slack, Miss Edes, and is a tumble-downatlve look about the houses, they trotted quite "refreshed and built up," as had - paid for, and found that the American Wide she opened her beautiful eyes: ing with Suzette's tranquil face a series of arm, and as she laughs in Ralph's face he robe, a new bonnet, a paletot, gloves and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph May. There appears to "This Is the last of living?" she cried. ideas which he dared not associate with knows what she is saying to herself; it is concomitants unlimited. She delighted to they are clean and tidy. Of the outskirts we we say after a good dinner or a good sermon. hotel system was much better and cheaper. be very few persons stopping here just now, had a better opportunity for observing than i J. c. But if one goes up the Rigi, and enjoys it as "The true death came In more crnol guise. what he had called pure, beautiful, or happy. more doubtful that he loves her than that walk upon the Boulevard, the rue Rivoli, but that is one of the pleasant characteristics 1 When hope of my love-llfe with Ernest died. from the steeple when we afterwards took a much as our S. family, they will forgive all the of hotels, It is always so delightfully quiet, and she knows it. and into the Palais Royal, looking into thè Now and then they spoke together, unin- turn a turn on horseback with a military gen- APOLLO. petty meannesses of these Swiss leeches. To one never encounters a crowd of noisy people. "All that was best of me with It fled, shop windows and selecting what she would [From the unpublished poem of Endymion.] telligibly, of course, but very merrily, and "Peut-etre, Monsieur, vous avez besoin des- tleman, who took us around the new, immense, be sure, if you are sensitive to sounds, when At the opera last night wo met Mrs. Elliot, Only the likeness of life remained, On high Olympus, when the feast was done, Ralph's appetite was that of the great car- gants ? " buy, when Ralph's remittances came. Her and, as he admitted, useless fortifications con-' you are seated on the curious car that makes the much-admired soprano of Saint Aloysius The real woman was stark and dead hospitality when his friends visited him did For the assembled gods who sat reclined, With earth's only heaven all unattftlned. nivora ; potage, beef, mutton, pullet, van- She gave him the card of her beutigue, and structed eight years ago on the then most ap- Or more majestically throned, or moved the ascension, yOu will find very disagreeable church, accompanied by her handsome son laughed like a sunbeam playing on a rivulet, less honor to her purse than to her heart. proved earthwork system, but which can hardly the ringing in the ears like the effect of qui- Wallace. They are on the way to New Orleans "Life without him was living death. ished like waifs, and then came the salad, With light divinity* through golden halls, 1 She certainly made excellent punches; Ter- withstand more modern artillery. Now, really, nine, and a grating sound caused by the iron Father, this dying is something grand which he could not make, sfr that Suzette and went out singing like the witch that she Apollo woke the sweetness of his lyre; to see after the large property Mrs. Elliot has .Gladly I give up my feeble breath, helped him again with her sprightly white was. rapin thought her cigarettes unrivaled; she when you see such exhibitions of the laek.of Urged by the harmony that filled his soul, teeth of the middle rail striking the cog-wheel lately fallen heir to. - I don't know how they And sought fresh channels like the ocean's flow, And enter the Elsewhere'B awful land. fingers, contriving so marvelous a dish that I don't want gloves," said Ralph Flare; was fond of cutting a fruit pie, and was foresight—when the originators of the plan im- under the locomotive, that seems to quiver get along at church without their favorite so- agined they had succeeded in making tbeir He poured his minstrel might in varying song. along the back as though a saw was dividing prano, and the tenor, Mr. Burnett, is also absent "Father, you tell me my hour is hero; Ralph thought her a little magician, and 'I won't go to her shop." quite a connmsseur with wines. Raph did With every varying impulse: now his hand works impregnable, and then when you hear the spinal column. But the great world reced- from the city. I hear they have a German gen- Speed me my soul to its home above, not wonder at her tidiness when the laun- Called forth the melody that some time charmed wanted to eat salad till daybreak. But he asked Père George the direction, of another genius who has invented an artillery ing below, like scene-shifting in a theater, jiever my spirit can feel a fear, dry bills were presented, but doubted that Admetus and his rude Thessalian hinds. tleman in his place who is not much accustomed "Now for the cards!" cried Terrapin, notwithstanding; and though his conscience arm that will diminish it, and then of still an- made Mrs. S. feel as though it was not real, to singing part-music, and instead of following For God is Our Father, and God is LOVE." the coiffeur beautified her hair, and one day, And his voice trilled his old Thessalian hymns— when they had finished th« cafe and the seemed to be blocking up the way—a tangi- other who has produced a target that will resist only a Christmas pantomime. In an hour and the tenor part, takes up on the bass, alto, or jlll Soul's Day, November Hymns to the majesty that rules the world, 2, 1872. Eau-de-vie; and as the parties ranged them- ble, visible, provoking conscience—he put when a cool gentleman in civil that gun, and as you proceed in this short kind And portions Time, and sets the bounds of Fate, a quarter Bhe had become reconciled ; she had soprano, just as it happens to catch his eye. selves about the greater table, Terrapin, who his feet upon it and shut his lips, and found knocked at the door, and insisted upon the of history, which, as they say, "Is writing With reverent remembrance of the old conquered a world, like Caesar, and was above How I wish you could have been with me at MARRIED ABROAD. knew everybody, gave their names and the place. immediate payment of a bill for fifty francs, itself "—now gun, now target, and then gun And fallen gods, that served the three-formed Fate; it. She waved her hand at it in disdain. It the opera last night! La Favorita was given for he lost his temper and said bad words. again—all these "improvements," God save the And mythic legends of the ancient years; was too material to mount herself and all the the first time this season, and as "Leonora" avocations. Ralph Flare has often remarked since— From what embrace the lords of heaven sprung, mark ! placing nations in the attitude of bull Snookses on tumble-down old horses, or the M'me Lucca was magnificent. The house was An American Romance of the Quartier Latin. "That is Boetia, a journalist on the Steele; for he is quite an artist now—that of all What could be done? Suzette was sobbing; And who of all flrBtheld the away of gods; dogs towards each other, and literally making alternative of chairs, to bWcarried up like par- crowded, and I never saw such enthusiasm. you will observe that he smokes his cigars scenes in art or nature that beutique was to Ralph detested " scenes; " he threatened to How discord grew within their joyous lives, butchers of a part of their population and abso- alytics ; from this latter the soul of Mrs. S. People say she Is the finest artiste and singer J1Y GEORGE ALFRED T0WN8END. quite down to the stump.- The little man him the rarest. He has tried to put it into leave the hotel and Paris, and frightened her And son to son gave place, and might to might; lutely making slaves of the majority whose earn- How the chained Titans groaned in banishment, revolted ; she had learned the Independence of since Grisi. In the last act she was grand, and color—the miniature counter, the show-case, very much—and paid the money. PART I. beside him, with a , is Haynau, fellow ings and productions go to support these worse How throqeless Saturn built the Age of Gold; climbing, Alpen-stock in hand. the excitement of the usually cold audience the back-ground of boxes, each with a but- "You said, Suzette, that you had rendered Les absent art tovjours tort. of the College of Beaux Arts—dead-broke, than useless encumbrances, really, and in sober And how the gods came down to dwell with men— ' Finding everybody was to be taken up some was electrical. If the other members of the as usual; and his friend, the sallow chap, ton looking mischievously at him, or a a full account of all your indebtedness. You earnest, I would like to ask our blatant political Thus hinting darkly of his own dull lot. way, Mrs. Snooks fell into the , and, troupe compared with Lucca the representation To say that Ralph Flare was "lonesome" is Moise, whose father died last week, leav- shaking its fore-finger, or a shapely told me a lie!" philosophers what they mean bv calling this an Driven in exile from his glittering home. with the united efforts of a peasant lad and a weuld have been unequaled. As it was, it is •would convey a feeble idea of his condition. ing him ten thousand francs. Moise, you pair of hose making him blush, and the ' Poor boy," she replied, " this debt was " age of progress ?" long whip, the horse gained the summit, and something to remember for a lifetime. Abrug- Four months in England had gone by wear- daintiest child in the world, flushing and so old that I never expected to hçar of it." We rode around but a small part of these fort- Yet the same song, unchanged by lyre or lips, the Hotel Rigi Kulen was reached at last. But nedo made most unsuccessful efforts to accept- will see, has a wife, Feefine, though I sus- That gave to wondering earth such vast delight. ily enough; but in this great city of Paris, " Have you any more—old or otherwise?? ifications, for they are of immense extent, and people seemed to swarm on this high place, like ably fill the role of "Fernando." A love duet pect him of bigamy; and the tall girl, with flirting and gossipping before him ; but the Thrilled with a liner glow the face of Heaven; where he might as well have had no tongue our friend made1 use of various military terms, the wicked people of Noah's time, as though with such a miserable actor and worse singer hair like midnight, and a hard voice, is at sketch recalls matters which he would for- Suzette said demurely that she did not owe For each high thought and every matchless tone, both French and English, in his explanations ; fearing a deluge. All over this mountain , must be very uninteresting to the prima donna. at all, for the uses he could put it to, he present unmarried. Those four fellows and get, his hands lose command, something a sou in the world, but was able to recall Making in human hearts delirious joy, pined and chafed—and finally swore. thirty francs in the coursç of the afternoon, but, as I have said, he having admitted that the And sweet confusion and uncertain hope, ' which was nothing more than a grassy knoll, He sang " Splrito Gentil" with some expression, their dames are students of medicine. They makes his eye very dim, and he lays aside but failed to elicit an encore, and his voice gave An oath, if not relief in itself, conduces to and assured him, truly, that this was the works were useless, we did not care to remem- Found clear response in every god-like breast. they were waiting for the dying of the day; he have one hundred francs a month apiece, his implements, and takes a long walk and ber all these particulars. It is certain that they Had higher meaning, taught a separate love was dying royally, seated on his crimson throne, out entirely in the last act. As to the new bar- that effect, and it happened in this case that last. and keep house upon it." wears a sober face all that day. cover such an extent of ground that in order to To each, as each was fashioned in his BOUI, crowned, scepter in hand, of purple and itone, I wouldn't spare a penny to hear him ! a stranger heard it. There are many sounds And Suzette," said Ralph Flare, impa- We may all follow up the sequence of a Still, she lacked economy. They went to defend Antwerp from attack, every man, And with a gentle magic led them all. gold bordered with scarlet and blue; all the (His name is Sparapain.) Maretzek has pub- common to altlanguages, but the crisp Saxon young man's thoughts! in doing a strange the same creamery, but her meals cost one woman, and child should be a soldier of the Anon he touched the chords with lighter sweep, Bernese Oberlands, white with snow, made lished a letter in which he reminds the public tiently. And flooded Heaven with a mellower tone. adjuration cannot be mistaken for any for- half more than his. She never objected tò garrison, and then they could not spread them- themselves into a mirror for him, and the three that there are not more than half a dozen tenors Oh! she is a couturiere, a dressmaker, wrong for the first time. If Ralph's pas- Singing the beauty and the strength of Love- eign ejaculation whatsoever. a ride in a voiture; she liked to go to thé selves effectually behind the ramparts. Getting lakes, so near, wore his colors upon their.breast. of the first class in the known world, and con- but just now a clerk at a glover's. She has sions of themselves could not mislead him, Love all divine, the rich boon of the gods "You are English," said the stranger, balls, but walked, very soberly upon his arrdr a few miles into the country, we passed through He seemed to say, See, I am king! this -great" sequently the demand -is painfully in excess of dwelt sagely, generally Speaking. She there were not lacking arguments a»d ad- To sighing men, but on the godB themselves turning Shortly upon Ralph Flare. recognizing nobody and exacting the same the pretty suburbs of Borgerhout. In the Dropped dew-like,-as it were from some far realm, round world of yours for twenty-four hours has the Bupply. He considers himself fortunate to breakfasts upon five sous; a roli, cafe, and visers to teach him that this was no offense, "I am not," replied that youth, "I am behavior from Ralph. Let him look at an Bquare is a fine statue of General Carnot, who Above Jove's throne, beyond the round of Fate. lived upon my smile; I have looked at your have deprived Covent Garden of Signor Viz- a bunch of grapes—her dinner costs eighty or that the usage warranted the sin. He be- Kindled and glowing with the sacred flame, zani, and to have persuaded Signor Abrugnedo .an American." unusually pretty girl, through a shop win- in 1814 commanded the French garrison of Ant- petty cares and worries; you are all a selfish centimes, and she makes a franc and a half came acquainted, through Terrapin, with werp, and who, notwithstanding the positive Apollo stood^rhis lightly curling locks lot; you do not love me for the heavenly light to have quitted the scene of his triumphs In "Then we are countrymen," cried the dow, upon his peril! If a letter came for a day, leaving enough to pay her room-rent." dozens of his countrymen; the youngest orders he had received to destroy this faubourg Shook with the joyous tremor of his frame; I bring, but only because I serve your plots and Naples, Milan, and Madrid. He adds that these other. '' Have you dwelt long in the Hotel him signed Lizzie, or Annie, or Mary, she A written Bong, his young celestial face, It is a little sum—seven dollars and a and the oldest and the most estimable had for "military necessity," disobeyed and spared ambitions. I make my last adieu! And he was artists, together with Sjgnora Sauz, the con- du Sibottf " took the dictionary and tried to interpret it, Changing expression with each changing note, half a month—how is the girl to dress?" their open attachments. So far as he could it. In memory of this kind act the people have Shone with a radiance like his own blithe sun. gone—no waiting, but only like a well-bred tralto, have been suffering with cold3 and and in the end called him a vilain and wept. erected his statue, and despite of general person. The day and its freight of events were hoarseness incident to our variable climate. Ralph Flare stated that he hadn't and that Terrapin shrugged his shoulders, but said remark, the married and the unmarried he had, and that he was bored and sick of wives in Paris were nearly equal in con- Toward the letters signed " Lizzie," she hatred of the French, they still hold Carnot in The airy billows of his tender lay in eternity. Lucca has entirely superseded Kellogg In the nothing. lasting remembrance. Nature has done very Swelled through the court and dashed against the A long wail from an Alpine horn floated out affections of the fickle New Yorkers; and the it, and had resolved to go back to the Re- sideration, How could he become perfect conceived a deep antipathy. With a woman's heart They played "ramps," an uproarious little for ornament hereabouts. Left to the on the gathering gloom. "Ah!" said Mrs. Brooklyn people complain of having to pay four public and fling away his life in its armies. in the language without some such incentive instinct she discerned that ' 'Lizzie" was more Of every listener. Jove's grave brow grew light game; and Suzette was impetuous and noisy direction of that wild young lady the whole Snooks, with a tender, brooding look in her dollars for a ticket to hear Kellogg. Dear knows "Pooh! pooh!" shouted the other, "I.see and associate? • ,, to Ralph than any other correspondent, A With ancient love, and smiled upon his Queen, as the rest, with brightened cheeks and eyes country would be a swamp, as it was In the eyes, "how many hopes lie buried with this what we shall be charged for the privilege of your trouble—you have no acquaintances. It His income was not considerable, but they single letter satisfied her of this, and ,when The jealous Juno; she with face upturned and fi,clear , silvery voice. The stake was a days when civilization first took it in hand for Gazed fondly back withunreminding eyes. dead day! The fate of half the world has been hearing the troupe in Washington, for I believe is six o'clock; come with me to dinner, and told him that to double his expenses was he was reading it, for the second time, she bottle of Bordeaux. Few women play cards the purpose of reclaiming it. But for ages it Pallas let fall her spear, and even she, staked, like a dicer's throw, upon these few it is now finally decided that they-will appear you shall know half of Paris, men and wo- certain economy. He was very lonely and snatched it from his hand and flung it fiercely honestly, and Suzette was the first to go out; has been drained and planted. Fine avenues of Venus the wanton, turned with earnest love hours. Let us pray that all people have kept there. men." he loved company. His age was that at upon the floor. Ralph's eyes blazed menace trees cross it in all directions. Elegant cha- To limping Vulcan, her too easy lord. We went to see our sweet little friend Addie but seeing that Ralph floundered and lost their faith." They filed down the tortuous Rue Jacob, which the affections and the instincts alike and her own cowered. teaux, which in summer must be hidden in But ohaste Diana, huntress unpursued, The Snookses in their Bight-3eeing had fol- Randall, yesterday, and heard her sing a few continually, she gave him her attention, Sat far apart, none noticed why nor how, now thrice gloomy by the closing shadows of impel the man to know more »f woman— "Take up that letter, Suzette!" forests of foliage, were peeping out from among lowed in the wake of crowds so much that when songs. I was delighted to find her voice so looking over his hand, and talking for him, Weeping strange tears, and rosy with new shame; evening, and, turning into the Rue de Seine, the processes of her mind, lier capacities, "I won't I" the branches ; well-çultivated market gardens they saw people hurrying out of the purple twi- much improved and strengthened. I think her and counting with so dexterous deceit that For still she thought of Latinos' breezy slope, ¡stopped before the doorway of a little painted her emotions, the idiosyncrasies which di- "Take it up, I say! I command! in and pretty white cottages with roofs of thatch O'er which her silver car at midnight'stood. light, they went too. The dining-room was the prospects of success in Italian opera are very he escaped also, while Terrapin paid for the everywhere abounded, and all was green in the fair indeed. She expects to go to Italy in the IbeuttQue, whereon was written " Creamery du vided her from his own sex. stantly!" He had risen to his feet and was When ail men slept, and beasts and painted birds, attraction. But all this hurry and excitement wine. fields. Art and industry have triumphed, the And fair Endymion, with his watchful hound, seemed vulvar; so madam calmly seated her- spring, and will shortly appear upon the operatic vQuartier Latin." Hitherto he had been chaste, though once the master now. She stooped with pale It was" not the most reputable amusement frogs have disappeared, and man has vastly im- TJnwakened even by Diana's kiss, Belfand " olive branches," and prepared to look stage at Milan. American singers are highly A tall, sallow, bright-eyed Frenchman was when he had confessed it to Terrapin, that jealousy lying whitely in her temples, and in the world, but the hours were winged proved their old domain. (Yet did his lips stir, and he smiled in dreams with supreme disdain on the disorder. But the appreciated abroad. seated at a fragment of counter within the incredulous person said something about gave it to him meekly, and sat down very I do not know why a dog should not be made At his divine and unsuspected joy,) dignity was all spoiled by a violent attack of I commenced by telling you what a very good and midnight came untimely. Suzette tied While conscious stars forsook her stooping course. smallest apartment in the world, and address- the marines and repeated it as a good joke ; he stricken and desolate. There was one whom useful. He is an animal upon whom a great sneezing—real, old-fashioned sneezing. The cousin I was to you, and it remains for me to on a saucy brown flat, streaming with rib- And morning bluBhed to see the lated moon. ing this man as " fe&e George " the stranger felt, indeed, that he was not entirely manly. he loved better than her—she felt it bitterly- prove it by telling you that all this time, while bons, and bade them good night, ending deal of needless sympathy is wasted. " Treated young Snookses looked the reproof they could passed through a second doorway and He had half a doubt that he Was worthy to a love more respectful, more profound a like a dog ?" Why, do you know dogs, as com- not utter at the disgraceful conduct of their I have been writing to you, New York, with all with Ralph, in whose palm her little fingers MRS. SNOOKS AND FAMILY. introduced Ralph Flare to the most miscel- walk with men, else why had not his de- woman, perhaps, whom he meant to make pared with men and other animals, have a pretty parent. But the sneezing became prevalent, its fascinations, awaits my attention, and Clara lay pulsing an instant, bringing the blood Correspondence of THE CAPITAL. laneous and democratic assemblage that he sires, like theirs, been stronger than his vir his wife some day, when SHE should be only good time through life ? Dogs are sometimes and in a moment three hundred people were all has been running in and out of the room at to his hand. PARIS, October 15, 1872. intervals of five minutes, saying "Do put up had ever beheld in his life tue; and had not the very feebleness of a shameful memory ! Kicked, not very often. Our sensibilities haye sneezing for dear life. The scene was inde- How mean the creamery and its patrons frequent raps. Aristocratic dogs such as hunt- Once fairly in the town of Berne, the juvenile scribably ludicrous. Snpoksey felt it to be so, that horrid letter and come go out. The Com- Two long yellow tables readied length- desire proved also a feebleness of power? (To be continued.) seemed now that she was gone! The great ers, spaniels, terriers, and poodles get on much Snookses were in great content, for it was there but there was no time between spasms to laugh, modore Is down stairs waiting with the carriage, ways down a long, narrow salon, the floor But more than all, he had a weakness for old Bruin was almost deified. This animal fig- and I'm sure he'll be out of all patience!" So clamp at the portal of his hotel sounded THE WATERING-PLACES OF GREAT BRI- better than aristocratic ladies and gentlemen, Everybody said, from behind their handker whereof was made of tiles, and the light Suzette. ures in all nursery stories, and therefore the at iast, reluctantly, I leave you, dear hoy, after very ghostly as he knocked; the concierge TAIN AND GERMANY. and common dogs don't work like common peo- chiefs, " Mountain air!" and everybody exe- wh weof fizzed and flamed from two unruly There was old Terrapin, with bonnets and ple. In Birmah and in Turkey I have noticed Snookses expected to see live bears living in crated mountain air. Madam was wiser, it was thanking yon for your kind and interesting was a hideous old man in and night- the wonderful clock. When, therefore, they burnei?*' A door at the farther end opened in his wardrobe, and a sewing basket Hints for Passing a Summer Pleasantly and that a dog, even of the most curish cast, is cayenne pepper. The last things at night were letter, written while you awaited the train for the cook . stood, all expectancy, before the clock tower, dreary twelve hours in Indianapolis. (You upon a BBS9 ' 19H Tovjours seul, Monsieur," he said, with on his mantel, and with his own huge with Economy. respected more than the majority of the human sneezing and the Alpine horn, and the first: population. Kick a dog in Rangoon or. Con- and a feeble little toy-cock flapped his wings in things in the morning were still sneezing and shouldn't call it a God-forsaken town; that was outside the door a pair of tapering , and meagre BE |11 an ugly grin. CHAPTER XXIX. stantinople streets, and if you are far from yoùr a wornout-bellows fashion, and gave a shrill the Alpine horn. It was a race between people only applies to Chicago!) in a as 8 and in his easy chair a little being to sing and the firelight, talk.'«« •Uk, B B ¡9 | What does that mean, Terrapin?" said The antiquarians seem to be at loss almost as consular flag you too will be speedily kicked. cry like a child blowing on a pumpkin vine, a and the sun to see which would be up first, If I had been with you I should have taken Frenchwoman can v chatter and mix his punch and make his harlequin like a jumping-jack strikes the hour j{ j' Mae George fat and Ralph. much as to the origin of the cathedral as in re- "Now the peasantry here in Germany and in though when he shut up suddenly from his bed you to call upon one of my most agreeable and Then there was a( cigarettes. Ah! how much more entrancing on a bell; a little old figure that looks as though likewise, with a gard to the city itself. It is generally agreed other parts of Europe, who find it difficult to of creamy mist he was saluted with a great charming friends, Mrs. Governor Hendricks, handsome, and gossippy "He says that you always come home would be Ralph's chamber with Suzette to it had just stepped out of the Farmer's Alma- . nd Hue patrons that it was commenced in 1352, but most singu- support themselves, do not admit any such cheer, at which he threw out beams of gold and in her brilliant and witty conversation you baby, a boy, and a daughter; a alone." garnish it. He would make a thousand lar it is that there is no trail ot the architect nac solemnly tips the hour glass, then the stone would have found compensation for your annoy- 'a number, Pagan or Moslem idea in regard to dogs. They on the snow of the mountains, and Earth re- of the place, twenty or more " How else should I come?" said Ralph, studies of her face; she should be his model, who conceived the plan. The entire uniformity figure in the towers strikes a bell, and with all ance in being so unreasonably detained. ~neaking allow " every dog must have his day," but every sumed her splendor. The light, went to the were eating and laughing and all ks^ dubiously. his professor, his divinity! What was gross of everything below the belfry of the great dog must do Lis day's work. The animals ap- this toy pomp one hour is gone, and another is farthest hills, and gave the valleys a glory not Clara insists that it is going to rain this morn- *naat at the same time, so that Ralph Flare "How, indeed?" answered Terrapin. is her he would refine; what dark he would tower is proof that it was the conception of a pear to have come down from the high preten- come. With so much machinery they should their own. Tripping down the steep mountain ing, and says all the gentlemen passing the win- really have handsome figures, with at least a first stunned and afterwards astonished. It was without doubt a dim old pile—the? make known. They would walk together single mind, and it is indeed a miracle of his- sions that they maintain elsewhere, and haye path inhaling the delicious air, Mrs. Snooks felti dows are carrying ; but I know bet- tory that she should have hidden the name of semblance to nature. The Inhabitants talk of ter, for it never rains while I am in New York. His new acquaintance, Terrapin, went TJjettl du Hibou, What murderers, and by the river-side,'into the parks, into the submitted to become useful members of society. it to be a day restored from her lost youth, and such a genius in one of her dark recesses. It Thé Belgian dog has not suffered by this con- this as the chief glory of the town, forgetting knew what it was again to experience the bouy- Don't you know there are some people upon gravely around the table, shaking hands j -