-Bk.^Jr 1 .W^^-^J^f, respect, at the same time laying a letter HER MIRROR. stant her majesty gives it back into TttY BABY. her rivals could not butadmireher girlish he had not far to go. He went into upon the table: my keeping." grace and naive frankness. It was the little candle store on St. Anne's 'T think ray baby's weight in gold, "I am sent by order of the chef de "Withthe greatest pleasure," agreed From the Independent- not long before .she had many admirers street, where he performed the last sad With all the gems of earth. police to imform Mme. la Comtesse 0 Mirror! whence her lovely faceWas the countess, with amiable alacrity, at her feet, for her reputation offices to the unconscious little proprietress Though multiplied a hundred fold, that the stolen diamond has been satisfactorily wont to look with radiance sweet, detaching the precious jewel forthwith, for wealth was most enticing to those Would not be half its worth of the establishment. The Hast thou not kept of her some tiace, traced, but there is unfortunatelysome and deposing it, without misgiving, in "And yet it is not many days seeking a fortune in marriage. negro woman said afterward, Mile. Some memory that thou canst repeat? little difficulty connected Since first my darling came, the outstretched palm of the imperial Conspicuous in his attentions was a Pierrette gave a start as the priest And knew so little of our ways, with its identification. I am charged.therefore, messenger lor, indeed, diamonds young gentleman of pleasing address entered and tried to talkthat was Could I but could find in thee once moreSome Had neither clothes nor name. to be.: that Mme. la Comtesse were almost as plentiful in the existence dear9 and promising ability, whose name taken of her presence all. sBut, ah, how gladly I supplied will have thegoodness to intrust of this fortunate lady as in 0 Mirror, wilt thou not restore just then was in everybody's mouth. In the old mahogany armoir, among the fellow earring to the police for a Her shadow for an instant here? All wants that baby had, the pages of Lothair, and she attached At a celebration of the anniversary the pile of snowy-white linen was short period, in order that it may be -And through my love for him relied no moie importance to them than of the battle of New Orleans he had found a letter, which puzzled those Thou couldst not yield a boon so great. To make my old heart glad, comnaied with the one found in the did the ]ewel laden heroines of our delivered an oration that had attracted who opened it. I see my own dim face and eyes For grandpa loves his dear, wee bo possession of the suspected thief. late great and lamented premier. general attention and the It read: "My name is Hortense With love and longing debolate. Far more than words can tell Madame will find that the letter I The countess bestowed a smile and All drowned in wistful memories. press of the city was loud in praises Dularge, and not Mile. Pierrette. My Already he has brought me joy, bring, corroborates my statement." a gracious bow of dismissal upon her of its exquisite sentiments and lofty And will repay me well. love brought me back to Louisiana, Blindly for her dear hard I grope The countess glanced hastily through majesty's distinguished ambassador, rhetoric. Raoul Chappelles was a law but it was too late. The only glimpse There's nothing life can have store the letter, and ringing the bell desired who responded by a profoundly respectful student in the office ot an old attorney, we have of heaven on earth is true So sweet to me as this sweet hope, THE LITTLE CANDLE MAKER. that her maid might be told to bring inclination as he made his and, like many others, was quite poor. love reciprocated. Fate denied me To feel her smile on me once more' the remaining earrine immediately exit. Once safely outside the box, A gambling father had left him without that. Show this to Father and this was done, and the dapper little the aristocratic features of this highbred a sou of his mother's estate, and he will understand. I leave all my Charles E. Whitney in Xew Orleans TimesDemocrat. A French Diamond Bobbery. man. bowing deferentially, departed imperial emissary suddenly lost at the age of nineteen he had commenced property to the church." with the precious duplicate safely, in their serene expression of dignified the study of the law, subsisting It was signed with a firm hand and I. possession. gravity, and relaxed into a triumphant on what he could make by commercial sealed. It was in the palmiest days of the If one follows the stream of early Mephistophelean grin. The countess descended to her sledge collections. The funeral was impressive and the ill-fated second empire. The triumphs 'Worshipers that pours out of the old Shortly afterward "Count Ivanoff and drove to the club, to call for her His family connections gave him sermon one of the most touching ever of the Crimea were not yet forgotten St. Louis Cathedral after low mass, returned, "I have been talking to husband en route for the Bois. Crossing the entree into good society, and, poor preached, for old memories were the laurels won at Magenta were still D," he remarked, as he seated himself. the Place de la Concorde, she related as he was, everybody saw a brilliant he will notice that the greater number awakened in the heart of the gentle Clever fellow,D. I am not surprised to him the latest incident in the future before him. priest, memories he had long since verdant and fresh Sedan, with all its pass down the alley on the north side at the emperor's partiality to story of the diamond earring. The beautiful West Indian girl and buried. The little candlemaker's own bitter humiliation and disastrous of the edifice and distribute themselves him he must find him so useful when the law student met frequently, and "You never were induced to give up candles shed a soft radiance on altar train of tragic consequences, loomed up and down the Rue Royal. Just below he is in want of an idea." it was easy to see that the young man the other!" cried Count Ivanoff incredulously. and chancel, but like her life, they at in the misty future, undreamed of "Who is D?" inquired the countess, this, Rue St. Anne crosses the had made a deep impression. The last flickered and went out and the with languid interest. father of the girl at first pretended amidst the almost fabulous luxury "But I tell you, mon ami, an officer cathedral was left in darkness. more busy thoroughfare, and is but "That is rather a difficult question," not to notice the advances of Raoul, of police came himself to letch it, and incredible frivolity which paved a stone's throw from the cathedral. replied the count, smiling "there are but as month after month passed and bringing a letter from his superior the way for the final terrible fiasco. The immediate neigdborhood thereabouts A Spiritual Medium [Exposed. several editions of his biograpnyall the acquaintance between them ripened vouching for the truth of his state- has an air of sanctity and ecclesiastical It was an evening in mid-winter. different, probably none of them true. into an intimacy, he startled ment." From a Manchester (N. H.) Letter. He is successful, which is the chief quiet about it that is due, the daughter one morning by the announcement "If the prefect himself had come, I The Parisian season was at its height A sensational exposure of an alleged point moreover, he is entertaining, that he would, admit don't thinkl should have been cajoled perhaps, to the close proximity of the and a brilliant audience had assembled spiritualistic ^medium, while in the and at any rate, looks and speaks like Raoul no more to his house. The into letting him have it, after last great paribh church. Show windows midst of a materialization seance at the Theater Francaise to witness a gentleman, which in these evil days fiery, impetuous temper of the girl night's experience," laughed her husband- took place recently at the residence are brilliant with gilt crucifixes, altar the performance of Jules San- is somethingeven much. Tenez, he was aroused at this, and for some "However for the second timeof G. B. Ammidon. The medium was \W candlesticks, communion wreaths and has just eutered the emperor's box days she would not leave her room deau'3 delightful play, "Mile, de la asking, we will go and inquire." Mrs. Bessie Huston, of 488 Tremont the man in the black coat." or hold communication with her ornate rosaries and as temptations The coachman turned and drove as Seiglierre," in which the role of Destournelles street, Boston, who had made three father. Surreptitiously she conveyed "Is that M. D?" exclaimed the directed to the bureau of police, at to the eye of youthful lovers, little was filled by the great Regnier, previous trips to Manchester and billets doux to Raoul and mutual love countess, wakmg up to a mild interest Inch the count had lodged his complaint blue velvet prayer-books look coyly and that of Helene by Madeline gulled the public into believing that was acknowledged. in the subject if so he has been here the night before. After a somewhat out from hiding-places on their shelves, she possessed the requisite powers of Brohan, then in the zenith of her fame, while you were away. He came on the protracted delay, the count rejoined There were stormy scenes in that inviting the devout gallant to make calling up the spirit forms of those part of the empress, and carried off his wife with a semi-grim look big house on Esplanade street. An radiant with youth,beauty, and those one ot my earrings, which her majesty who had passed on into the great unknown. of amusement upon his handsome old negress was placed on guard over the heart of his belle flutter by such a fascinations, the outcome of innate wished to compare with one ot the hirsute face. "The police know nothing the girl. Her meals were sent to her Her seances have been well present. Artificial flowers in great talent and refinement, which rendered Countess W.'s." of your detective or his epistolary room and her only promenade w^,s patronized, but all who attended had clusters bloom in handsome Sevres this gifted lady one of the most charming efforts," he said, drawing the fur rug in the back garden of afternoons. not been her dupes, as several had expressed "D Impossible! 1 was talking vases, and near them tasty biscuit up to his chin as the impatient horses Loye laughs at locks, and a regular and perfect actresses of modern to him the whole time I was absent, themselves that she was a vessels for holy water fill up the garniture sped away over the fro/en snow "it correspondence was kept up between and he only left me at the top of the fraud. The last seance was the eighth days. was the wrong man they had got hold the lovers through the hair-dresser of the store windows. Here one staircase two seconds before I return- given by the woman in Manchester, and The empress was present, graceful of at Brussels. Your second earung that came every day to assist the ed."^ could, in fact, furnish all the altar her company on this last occasion" included and beautiful the emperor at her side, has been netted by another member young lady in her toilet. "Nevertheless, mon ami, he has been some of the best known residents. paraphernalia for either a grand wrapped in his favorite air of gloomy of the light-fingured fraternity, and One morning in May all this ended. here, and has taken my earring. See' Some five or six forms had appeared, -cathedral or modest private chapel, abstraction, which, like Lord Burleigh's upon my honor I think he was the A family carriage containing an old it is gone." and among the number the celebrated nod, was supposed and when high mass is sung in the old more accomplished artist ot thetwo'"' gentleman and his daughter stopped "Effectively," agreed thecount, with daughter of one gentlemen, who to mean so much, yet which, viewed And from that unlucky day to this near the wharf occupied by West Indian building so close at hand, it is not a grim smile "but has not taken thought he recognized his dead girl by the impartial light of subsequent the Countess Ivanoff's celebrated schooners and both alighted. A it. It is to the last degree unlikely 'difficult to imagine each window an and exchanged kisses with her. Finally veracious history, seems to have signified diamond earings knew her pretty ears number of trunks were carried on that the empress would make such a altar and unseen acolytes swinging a pretended spirit came to a gentleman no more. so very little. Several officers board the Tres Hermanos, and that request. Depend upon it, you have their incense holders as the rich organ who made up the party, and the in glittering uniforms were in attendance, fleet little vessel was soon on its way been made the victim of a thief, gotten latter acting in accordance with a "tones fill the little side streets. sparkling with decoiations down the river bound for Porto Rico. Not Down on the 15ills. up as an accurate copy of the distinguished preconceived plan, seized the outstretched Two months subsequent a young gentleman, showered upon them by a grateful looking Around the corner from Royal Funny things "not down on the well recommended, entered hand, and threw his arms sovereign and, among these gallant "Impossible'" cried the countess, in street, on St. Anne, for many years bills" often happen to actors. Ab the college at Grand Coteau to study warriors, conspicuous by reason of around her body and bore her to the her turn. "The affair is absolutely as stood a one-story house fronting immediately for the priesthood.and by a coincidence surd occurrences, by some fatality,are the sombreness of his attire, was a floor. The form was no other than I tell you. It was M. the \critable on the street. The years society at the same time missed Raoul solitary, humble, black-coated civilian that of Mrs. Huston, who screamed, M. 1 see opposite, who came most common in tragedy, their ludicrous had evidently some ill-will toward it, Chappelles. in ordinary evening dress, with into this box and took away my diamond. and her husband, who always accompanies for the weather boards seemed more charter being made all the more in. the inevitable speck of red at his button-hole. Only wait a little, and he will dilapidated, the chimney more tottering, her, pulled out a billy and proceeded conspicuous thereby. The Chicago With the budding of trees and the bring it back intact." and the green mossy herbage on to apply it with vigor upon News tells this among other funny experiences first warm breezes from the south, the roof more grasping in its clutches "To wait a little is to lessen the the head of the captor. In the meantime Lent of 1850 was ushered in, and all In a box almost immediately opposite related by Manager McConnell on the shingle roof than any thereabouts. chanc.es of its recovery. In any ease the gas had been lighted by those good Catholics crowded the cathedral that occupied by their imperial Just before the fire of a few I will 20 and inquire of if I can who were parties to the plan, and Mr. to hear the gifted father who had just majesties, was a young and exceedingly years ago it was what wouldt be called get at him, whether he has been seized Huston was then seized and the billy "I was with Barret playing in Dav bu in 185 1 taken charge. The report of his eloquence affair,'5 handsome Russian lady, the Countess a "tumble-down with a sudden attack ot kleptomania taken away from him. The lighting enport, Iowa. The railroad hotel and had been such that it was said Ivanoff, concerning whose manifold 5t had a somewhat more presentable because the idea of the empress having of the gas revealed Mrs. Huston opera house are owned by one man another Massillon had come to earth. graces and facinations the great appearance. This was perhaps due to sent him roaming about the theatre, and are in the same building, while the stretched upon the carpet where she His fervent sermons produced quite a world of Paris elected to interest itself the neatness and taste of that dapper borrowing a lady's jewels, I regard depot and railroad track are immediately had been held by the gentleman who religious excitement Avherever he went, considerably at this period. little old maid, Mile. Pierrette, who as preposterous. Ah' these Parisian behind. The kitchen and had the nerve to trap her, dressed in and New Orleans was not slow to pay occupied the premises, rather than to The beauty and wit' of this fair fitous' You do not know what scientific laundry of the hotel are underneath a sleeveless white garment and wearing him homage. His success here was its architectural qualities. Every geniuses they are in their way." northern enchantress were the theme the stage, and there are waves of hot a white vail over her head. The exposure not less than elsewhere, and never before spring she had the outside regularly of every masculine tongue, and her With this the count departed, and air rising over it all the time. The had such congregations filled the was complete and overwhelming, ^white-washed, and the heavy shutters magnificent diamonds the envy and the second act was nearly at an end weather was intensely hot, and all the old edifice. chalk and other materials used in -given a glossy green that quite renewed admiration of all feminine beholders. before he returned. windows were open to admit the fresh Benevolent, ever attentive to the the youth of the old building. Like the deceit practiced being discovered. The countess was accompanied by In the meantime, the countess perceived air. The heat on the stage was unbearable, wants of his flock, and leading the life the larger stores around the corner, The woman was allowedto return to her husband, a fine man of distinguished, that she was an object of interest and as Barrett stood soliloquizing almost of a saint, he so endeared himself tier front room had caught the ecclesiastical the cabinet, where she clothed herself to the occupants of the imperial prepossessing appearance, J as Hamlet the sweat poured that his parishoners looked upon spirit, and in twolarge,upright box. and notably to the "double" of who looked an embodied refutation of in her evening dress. The money paid in torrents from his face. His him not only as a religious adviser, glass case hung in long rows, the results her late aristocratic-looking visitor, the celebrated Napoleonic aphorism, by the company was returned, but as soliloquy, with locomotive accompaniment, but warm friend. The success of his of the energetic maidtn's handiwork. who she could still solemnly declare, as though no amount of "scratching" the chandelier had been broken in the was something like this. first sermon was not abated by the had stood before her in the flesh. could ever unearth the Cossack element lively scenes which had been enacted many that followed, and two years "I was right," whispered the count, 'To be, or not to be (toot-toot-toot- underneath his refined polished jNofc even a modest sign or other notice when the coup de grace took place,the after he had taken charge his popularity re-entering and bending over his wife's tooty-to-toot), that is the (toot) exterior. gave testimony to the world of purse was presented to Mr. Ammidon, was unbounded. question. Whether'tis nobler (whistle) chair knows nothing of your The curtain fell after the first act. the articles to be found on sale within, with instruction to apply it toward in the mind to suffer (ding-dong, dingdong) earring, and, needless to say, the empress The emperor and empress withdrew 'but all the Creole population knew It was about this time that a lady the purchase of another chandelier. the slings and arrows ol'^ (voice never sent him or any one else the place. Every year, just before during the entr'acte. Many humbler in reduced circumstances opened a little Mr. Ammidon informed the Hustons in depot- 'All aboard fi Chicago an' upon such an errand. I have put the the time when the little "ones take mortals followed their example among store on St. Anne street, and for that his roof could not shelter frauds Rock Islan' railroa-al aboard") matter into the hands of the police, their first communion, the store them Count Ivanoff, apparently in no awhile supported herself by the sale of another night, as he did not countenance 'outrageous fortune, or to take arnits and they will do all that is possible would be crowded with children, selecting artificial flowers and in giving music wise disturbed by the fact that the anything of the kmd,and at once, against' (voice in depot 'Twentyminutes to recover it." their tall wax candles for the lessons. It was reported that she had golden youth in the stalls were bringing showed them to the depot, wnere it is for refreshments'' terrible "Really' How very droll'" remarked interesting ceremony. Mile. Pierette relinquished all right to a large legacy a small battery of opera glasses to supposed they took a southward combination ot gong, whistles, bell the countess with calm nonchalencefor commenced the manufacture of altar conditioned that she should never visit bear upon the dazzling charms of his bound freight train at an early hour and 'choo-choo' of the locomotive). she belonged to that order candles. o it was reported, away Louisiana, and had come to New beautiful wife, with a brazen persistency in the morning. The veil taken from You may easily imagine the effect ali of impassive statuesque women, hack in the days of Gen. Jackson. In Orleans on account of former pleasant which we chivalrous Britishers this would have on the sensitive and Mrs. Huston's head was divided up who remain mistress of themselves fact some of the envious shopkeepers associations. There were many rumors like to flatter ourselves is the monopoly nervous Barrett. He left the tage though any quantity of "china fall among the party as mementoes of the afloat as to the reason of this over the way intimated that she had of foreigners. foaming at the mouth and sweating at "I will take out the other earring, or occasion. The gentleman who led in sacrifice, but the little lady evaded all made the wax lights for the marriage The countess leaned back in her luxurious every pore. The roses which Ophelia people may fancy I am trying to set questions, and the gossipers were left exposure was John Byron Huse, ol of some of the old Spanish hidalgoes fauteuil, fanning herself dreamily, carried were made of tissue paper, but the fashion of wearing an odd OIIP to surmise. She attended church regularly, East Manchester, and he has the billy "when they occupied Louisiana, but serenely indifferent to the interest very life-like, and when she cast them and she handed the fellow to the purloined never failing to be there when these sarcastic remarks were due, perYk&ps, which was wrenched from Mr. Huston. she was exciting. In the dim light of down, saying, 'Sweets to the sweet,' jewel to her husband. the good father preached, but always to jealousy of the little lady's her curtain shaded box the glitter of they were caught in a current of hot The play came to an end, as even left 311st before service was over. This thriving trade. her splendid diamonds seemed to form air and sailed serenely up to the- ceil- that most excellent feast of reason, a had been noticed by many. Once she No matter how long ago it was when a sort of luminous halo around her Mr. Parnell's Mother. ing, where they remained during the good French play, well acted, must do met the father in the alley below the she commenced the business, it is graceful head a myriad starry brilliants rest of the performance, greatly to the sooner or latter, in common with all cathedral almost face to face. New York Letter in Chicago News. nevertheless true that for' delicacy of gleamed among the masses of delight and astonishment f the things mundane. She hastily drew her veil You have perhaps heard the con^ taper, grace of ornamentation, and her gold brown hair, and two priceless audience." The countess was duly commisserated down and hurried by him, while the tradictory tales told of old Mrs Parnell's purity of wax, theie was no communion stones, popularly reported to be by sympathizing friends who one dignified pere walked on entirely unconscious condition. Well, it is just as bad candles in New Orleans that could worth that unknown quantity,a king's and all declared, behind herback,that of the little woman's efforts compare with hers. Even the tinsel as it is represented. Mrs. Parnell is. A Incomparable Winter Resor t. ransom, flashed and twinkled liketwin they would never have been guilty of to hide her face. paper with which she adorned them a lonely old lady, without the slightest planets in her little shelled ears. There is no question, that as a winter the imbecility of trusting so valuable a Years passed, and the trade in altar had a chic about it no one else could regard for what we call comfort. The count had not been gone five resort, especially for lvalids and possession to the tender mercies of candles had become one of the recognized copy, and the tall ones, measuring Moreover, there is a strain of bohemianism minutes when there was a gentie knock convalescents, Bermuda has no equal however fascinating a stranger but industries of that section of the nearly five feet, were marvels of the in the family, excepting at the door, and in answer to the nothing more was heard of the stolen this side the Atlantic. Only three city. Of morningsthe neatly-dressed ca,ndle maker's art. Charles Stewart Parnell, which betrays countess' "Entrez," the ouvreuse appeared jewel until the following day at noon, days from New York by the present proprietress of the establishment I was a source of much satisfaction itself in wearing their hair down and said deferentially: when Count Ivanoff received a note could be seen deftly at work ornamenting line, which might be reduced to fortyeight "to her, on great church occasions, to their backs, carrying Gampy old umbrellas "Pardon, Mme. la Comtesse, a gentleman from to the effect that, as he those tall ones of wax, putting on stand far back in the cathedral, near hours with faster steamers, tbe around, and a certain disregard charged with a message from could not help considering himself here a leaf and there a bit of silvered the vestibule, and looking over the climata is as different as Decemh&r of appearances that looks like her majesty the empress waits in the partly responsible for the loss of the paper until they grew into gorgeous theads of the kneeling congregation, from June. There is never any frost discomfort to American eyes. Mrs. corridor, and desires to know if madame diamond which had disappeared affairs. gaze with pride on the hundreds of here at least, tha- last one, and not will have the goodness to receive Parnell does live on the fourth floor throueh the agency of his counterpart, One evening the shutters of the front soft lights, all from her hand, that much of a one at that, was on Christmas, him." of a tenement-house on Hudson he had taken an early opportunity of window, wherein were exposed numbers shed their mellow radiance on altar Certainly! Enter, I beg of you, monsieur," 1840. The usual range oi the street, which is a very poor street interviewing the chief of the police, of these wax candles, were put up and picture. She had never been replied the countess in a low indeed she is poor and in want oi thermometer during the winter who assured him he had good reason earlier than usual. It was remarked 'known to miss a mass, not even during sweet voice which was not the least of money and she is apparently uncomfortable months is 6 0 deg. to 70 dec. Beina to believe the theif had already been that an old negro woman performed the cholera time of 1847, and her her many attractions, bowing graciously, and is certainly oriy semi-tropical, therefore,~tfcere is traced as far as Brussels. this labor, and not the little Mile. Pierrette. reputation as a devotee was not less as she recognized the distinguished-looking failing fast. But Mrs. Parnell is always none of that oppressive heat ?hat so Early in the afternoon the countess than her renown as a candle maker. civilian she had already more or less in those conditions. debilitates aa the West Indies. There was about to, start for her daily drive Except in the shop she wasneven seen Then it was reported that the little noticed close proximity to She has no idea of the value of money in the Bois. The troaen snow lay deep is always a bracing breeze from the lady with the white cap and fichus elsewhere than in the cathedral, and the emperor in the imperial box. and has made ducks and drakes of a upon the ground, and the jet-black sea, sometimes Loo bracsng but across the way was very sick. As it the sweet-faced Madonna looking down The visitor advanced a few steps, handsome fortune but she never was Russian horses jingling their bells merrily grew darker the wind began to blow, from the pew could hardly be said to though it blow you off your-feet there and, still standing in a deep shadow* is no chill in it. Young men weaT what we would call comfortable even the frosty ahvst'ood waiting in howling under the eaves, whistling 1 be oftener seen than Mile." Pierrette. said with grave dignity: when she had money. The people the courtyard while the countess.! through the railings of Jackson white serge suits in January as well as 11, "I trust my intrusion may be pardoned. donned ber furs. with whom she is staying are plain, square and moaning up among Way back in the twenties a young July, and the gardens sure blooming I am desired by her majesty/to but they are honest and do kindly by the bells in the cathedral spire. A servant entering announced thsiZ lady of remarkable beauty produced with roses every month in the year ask a favor of Mme. la Comtesse, ajid, her. To Mrs. Parnell's lively imagination, At first it caught up the loose bits ah officer of poHce in plain clothes quite a stir in New Orleans society by while such tropical fruife as oranges! at the same time, to beg that she will ww asked permission to speak with Mme. however, they are princes and of waste paper lying around her varied accomplishments and rare limes, lemons, sapadillas and bana-n have the goodness to excuse a somewhat la Cos&tesse concerning the lost diamonds princesses, the tenement is a cozy flat, French Market, until the air was filled conversational powers. With an aged as, especially the latter, flourish in unusual request." and as for want of money, she always with flocks of wingless paper birds. father she arrived from the West Indies, "The obligation will be mine 5f I can great abundance. And in March "But certainly," agreed ma^ame, Then it grew more savage and dug into and soon afterward presided was poor, even when she was rich. fulfill even the least of her majesty's when the farmers of New York and graciously "let the officer be shown the interstices of the square block over a handsome establishment in So, to Mrs. Parnell's peculiar notions wishes," answered the countess gracefully. New Ensland are just beginning to intotheboudoir." pavement and scraped out every loose the French quarter of the city, purchased of what constitute comfort and independence thmk about ploughing and planting, particle of dust and sent it skurrying by her indulgent parent at the frito the boudoir presently same the may be ascribed the difference "The case is this," explained the .u. Bermudan brothers in clouds down St. Anne street. Then countess, stately, beautiful, fur-clad, sale of an estate. Her artistic taste their between her views and other people's. are- busy gentleman, in a tone of well-bred ease came the rain, big drops at first, followed buttoning her littl,e glove. Near the 'was said to be exquisite, and from You and I would say that she digging their potatoes, planted in De- "an argument has arisen concerning by drenching torrents. The xthe imitation of natural flowers in was in penury, but Mrs. Parnell lives door stood a short, wiry-lookingman, cember, and shipping them to the New the size of the diamonds in your earings sacristan was called down stairs by a wax to the execution of an oil painting, on the shamrock andTara'sharp and with keen black eyes, closely-cropped York market, along with onions to- and those of the Countess W. The ring of the rectory bell. A woman she excelled all amateurs ever the vale of Avoca, and resembles Lord hair, and compact, erect military fig- matoes and other vegetables, and empress begs that you will intrust one was dying and needed a priest. seen here before. Modest and unassumming, Edward Fitzgerald to that degree that ure. The small man chncked his heel* thanking their stars(at least they of your pendants to aer oare for a few she heard the praises that Through the storm, guided by the together and bowed profoundly in the ought to be) that with other Amen- whether she has any stockings or not moments as the only satisfactory were showered upon her in an unaffected, old negress, the father made his way presence ot so mpch high-born love- can guests the potato-bug has not yet is a comparative trifle. method of disposing ot the vexed question. charming manner, and even slowly, and was not sorry to find that haw, while he saAd. with the. utmost I put an a*peeru* on theislands I will myseit return it the in-