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Morning Star and Catholic Miese:,aer'
NW OaLtANTS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 1i, 1b07.
ZvIBT TA1aA'"MCriA
TRANXLATID Ylto(l TliE GERMAN.
PART II.-TEcN YEARS LATER.
IV.
(CUonoluded.)
"And now I will tell you my history," said
Natalie one day, confldentlally ; "will you lis
ten to it "' t
"There is nothing I should like better than
that "
"'Really ! bat there Is nothing interesting in
it."
" All that concerns you Is intoersting to
me."
""'hen attend."
"'Vill it not tire you tdo much ''
"Oh, uc; I feel so well to-day."
"You have had several attacks of fever dur
ig the last few days, and to day---"
"Could I believe Isbonld ever get betlter-bat
no, that will never be! I usat make haste,"
she added, with a smile that pierced her
mother's heart like the stab of a dagger.
"Then begin. Nitalie; but put away thoso
ugly thought i of death."
'1 can't do that; but now that I know my
mother is living I do not wish to d: so mucb t
as I did; when shall I suo her T"
It cost Louisa great self.restraint not to press
her to her heart and msak herself known as
her mother; but prudence held her back; for as
long as Natalie herself did not know who
Louisa was her secret was safe.
"Patience, my angel, patience; but you are
quite forgetting yoer history."
"That is true. 8o listen, then. I can hardly 1
imagine what my mother is like ; I have not
even a picture of her; but in my dreams I have a
often seen her. I think she is like you, and
that it is this which attracts me to you." i
' Did your father never speak of her 1"
"Never! I once asked him about my mamlna,
Lot he loukeld at me s) angrily I dared not t
question him further."
"And did hio hot answer at all 7'
"No: at least not at fist ; but a few days I
after he came to mie, took mue on his knee, and I
said: 'Lily, I will n-t have yoru ever speak of
your mlthi ; but if anosene ever says an thing
against lor in younr pr.ori ce, tell :,e of it. Yon
musat h,,on r !,rt, for s , , c ,rinitted only one
fault : she diaobeyed mee. Mark tLhi a. a can
verse wilh me, or 1 sltall iL ,', away 'nou.'
Ile lookt.ed " terrible that I iItn~,b'ed ii, evw.r
limb, a ni .I f1rom im. Amn I like iu r
another 7
"No, riot quite, thongh I shounld ta!ce you for
a Po,le rather than a liresiar."
"That Las oltte been t'irown at mne. I hav, r
many cousins and relatives. Aunt Pelagia (
alone has eight children, asnot Znaide six, anid
aunt Alezaud a fur; I am the only one named
Dalmatchine ; in our honeu at St. Petersburg I
and at the castle, the orrvants flow at a sign
from me, but neither miy grandmother nor my
aunts were kind to me. My cousins always
called me the Polish girl, and I answered that
I was proud not to be a Russian. Aunt Pol- I
gia heard me once, and gave me a box on the
ear. I told papa, and sice then be has never I
spoken a work to uncle Wladimir or aunt Pel
agia ; blt he forbade me ever to say the like
agal i."
"And you obeyed him I'
"Yes, I was ino afraid of my father ! but in I
the depths of my heart I always loved the i
Poles. There was a poor Polish woman living1
not far from us, and I was always seanliung ihr
money or clothes, just becannu e .amma wos a
Pole."
Louisa kept back her tears by main force ;
her beatt swelled with thank"giving that 11ea
ven had done that which it was impossible for
her to de: the soul of her child had been guid
ed to good acts, and ti:led with love for her
unknown mother.
"I was a very merry chid, though you would
scarcely think that now," continued Natalie;
"I liked rouning round in the garden all
rambling in the forates better than studying ;
I was as robust as a bIy. and I had a little
horse on which I rode around for hours to
gether."
"And who t wok charge of your education I"
"Madame Monetiers is my second governess;
the first wos an Englishwoman. I troubled
myself very little alout the ladies. I saw papa
very seldom; grandrunamna was al ways equal
ly cold and strict with ime; what did I care for
that I I had a friend called Martf; she was the
daughter of one of our serfs. The family were
angry that I liked her so much, but paps per
snitted it, so we grew up together, played.
rode, read -sometimes even did a little work :
ah, what happy years those werel 1 thought
but little of my mother then."
"How old were you at that time 1"
"I was about thirteen, when Marfa suddenly I
fell sick and died. I nursed her: I, who had i
mever seen a sink or dead person. 0, then I
saw for the first time what a frightful thing
death is I When Marts had left me I was a ,
changed being; for long months I scarcely
spoke a word; in my sleep I was always seeing I
the corpse of my friend, hearing her breathe
her lat. I piotured to myself how lonesome
she must be, lying there in the ohnrohyard, I
and I became miserable at the thought. '
"The physician advised change and mental I
diversion. Aunt Pelagisa and heroahusband were r
Just going to Italy, and grtsdmamma was go
tng with them; they decided I should go too.
Madame Monstierg accompanied ns, but in
order to cheer tme up, when we got to Paris, I
they gave me a young French girl as a corn
panion. Sho was a few ye.ers older than 1, and I
Icould talk with her better than with Ma!uame
Moneticre, asrl so we wint to Italy."
"And your hallith!'
"Ali ! I had alhe...ly cn eatlction of tIbe Si'; I
and hlarit's fate we' ei,'n.itantt'y Lt,.rf.o' . v,
eyes. No oune riil tried t, ,':cnr!-, mio. Was i.t
could they sy I Tlhat Mrt fa %:;I a hi,l*t n
and t'I at w , e!.L.u tld i o one u 'i ',cr i a i i t
Granidiamolni and niy aunts were t,i: willing I
that they ehbould one d.iy mloet their Its i f
heaven. S0 I lootrued hor M:rta as a a teothet
mourns. -
"L uisa larou, my new friend-whonm I ae
oepted at fire; the nl ):o willingly Ieoause aho I
bore my meotjer's namne-was very itione, and a
Catholic; she often spoke to me of the manner
in which we must bear our fate--f the merii I
of snfferingo-of the mseeting again in heaveun- a
and I listenod so willingly, and thought more t
and more of my dear mother. Oh, I shounld t
perhaps get better if- " a
"Go on with your story, dear, please." I
"Now, I am coming to my secret! Louisa
- told me a great deal of the Catholio religion ;
ahe took me with her to church, explained the
ceremonies to me, and I. who knew nothing b
forther of God or of God's service than that we a
shbould go to church and make oroesea beaose ea
the ·sar prescribed it---I began to rejoloe in I
my inmost soul at the new light whilh stream- a
ed into it. I forgot my grie. In Rome I lived 1
again my fall life, bodily and spiritually." e
"But did not your grandmamma, and your s
anute have any asuspicion of what Lounisa was
teabhnlg you 1"
"Nol not yet. They saw us go out, and k
never asked where we were going. B it once,
on a beautiful day in spring, we, in company a
with many noble RuBossians, made a trip to the a
Roman Campagns. We had stepped out of our ii
carriages and were walking in groopm through I
the fields, when all at once a long procession a
drew near. n
'-Tbere were priests and Cardinals, accom- t
panied by a guard of Papal soldiers. I heard d
the whisper brun, through our circle: 'rhe
Pope! the Popel' I had never seen the Pope, ti
and I stood still as the others moved away a C
little. 8ome country-people knelt to receive v
hbls blessing, but grandmamns end aunt Psi- ti
er' ai remained tossoing up their heands in morn
at a distance, and I----ob, I shall never for
7o. get it! se be came nearer, that old man in
white raiment, with a friendly smile and exz
pressive eyes which seemed as if they had
looked loto heaven, how angry I felt at our
poipes and our emperor, that they would not so
knowledge him as their Father, the man on
whose forehead the seal of his heavenly mis
sion seemed stamped!'
'" .had my hands and my bosdes fall of
orange-bloes'ms, and without thinking of the
consequences I strewed the flowers before him
in his path, and then knelt at his feet. I did
not know what I was about; it seemed to
aid me I could not do otherwise than as I did."
lie- "Continue, continue!"
"He looked at me and smiled. What a
an smile I bat what an emotion for me, when he
first raised his band to bless me, and then for
in a moment lot it rest on my bowed head." 0
Mary I I stood up, I stepped on one side, but
to it was like a dream, as if I had been in an
other world."
"And what did the others say 1"
' Grandmamma said nothing; but aunt Pel
agia, overpowered with rage, pulled me back
er- ward and forward, need coasre expressions
regarding my mother, scolded me for my bad
it ways, my Polish sympath:es, and I know not
u," what. The others were much discomposed,
er and the trip was spoiled for everybody.
"'Louisa Baron t ad remained at home ; my
so first act was, naturally, when I saw her, to tell
her everything.j'htelw, a frightened, and begged
my me to be more prudent; bnt I was indignant at
ct the bad treatment I had received. and, nerved
by my meeting with the Pope, I resolved to
es become a Catholic at any hazard. On the fol
sa lowing morning I went with Lquisa to her
as father coufessor, and after a short probation he
,o received me into the Church."
'O Natalie ! then you returned to the rell
re gion of your mother I My God. how shall I
be able to thank Thee snifliiently! And what
y next f"
ot 'Liuisa Baron wrs subjected to a strict ex
re amination. 8be eoncealed the step I bad se
id cretly taken, but it was enough that she had
infused such thonghts in my head, and she was
sent away. Taking leave of her' increased my
a, sickness to such a degree that I was obliged
it to spend the winter at Nice, and the doctor
positively forbade my returning to Russia
again. Grardtnamma and aunt went to St.
s l'.-tersborg, and I remained with Madame
ShIMonstiers and the servats- in It sly."
f "Anld your convcr'ion I"
ig ' Thy hed noticed niothing Madamne Mons
tieri lets ne g"i whetre I !ike to ct,,rch. I
,, i n't know what c)nfesCion s1. l,:,Maigs to,
u. obi sinci----
"1) nr N \ to'ie rip"r,- secsl: f a little : you 1
ar- oalte tired is-vl ha,-."
"In.mirrow I will tell yon the rest; I have
r.nlt'.d tLe priu il eve t:t."
Oa the followintg i y Natalie'V health was
nie.h wrote, and it wa' sime days before she
s could ci p tiiue her narrative, which she did
Id as fo!!o-n' :
"d "I tolld Jn t~at I remained in Italy with
, Madln:e Monhutire; y.n may imagine how
:t ary I wa, : I was not really sick, but very
v e-k and melancholy. IIld not found con
as bulatio, in religion and ii, the !otters of my
at good Lonidn I moust have uil. I regularly
a- fulfilled my duties as a Catholic; and it so hap.
s petted that a Ris.ian family in the neighbar
Cr hood perceived it and let my father know.
il- I told you that papa was overladen with work,
he and had but little time to think about mie. lHe
paid no forther attention to the letter, bu:t
when grendmnammua read it shbefe'l into a vio
in lent passion, and thought it worth the trouble
ie to travel all tiat long way frum St. Pe*ers
.i bnre to Nice .o ie.ttion io n ab.nt i'."
S "I'.)or child!'
.a 'No, not pooot I was -strong through my
Faith; I stoo:1 my ground against ny grand
o ; ruamnas, although t:er reproaches were terri
ble b b; hut when she threatened me with my
or father, who, she said, knew nothing sf it as
d- yet, and who would punish me for my disobe
er dience, then I fell ill of an attack of the nerves
and lay several days without ooouoiousnees.''
Id l'le cruel wo-man !" and Louisa pressed her
u; dan,;hter passionately to her heart, as if she
n wouliT protect iter gainat everyone who c.t,e
z, iia- her.
le ' I it your father did nuot ill-treat 5o1, did
"o Ie Nat.alrt Ie isenoteo dlt-g.nerato aythat."
' N,. I have not seen my father since I
?" took leave of hint in St. Petersburg ; and his
is; letters, though they are short, are milder and
ed more tender ever since my sickness brings me
pa n, arer and neater t) mygrave. lie is c,ming
al- to see me aRs sion as he can get away, but I
or tretmble before him "
be "Does he know nothing of the etop you
re have taken t'
Gr- 'Orandmsammasays not,--bntI found a part
d, of a letter that she received at Nice and tore
t: asunder in a passion. There, read it; I al
ht ways keep it in my letter-pocket."
Louisa took the fragment and read:
"No: is it not bad enough that my domestic
ly happiness has been saorifloed to your fanatical I
ad ambition. I have fulfilled your will. thrown
I myself into politics, flattered the Emperor,
ig eagerly sought the poets of honor. One thing '
a only have I refused to obey you in: that one I
ly shall ever refuse. Natalie's soact is the punish- t
'g ment I receive for breaking my word. I prom- I
ie isod Lodolsek, before marriage, that all our I
s bchildren should be brought up Catholics. God e
t, has avenged Himself, and. without the assist
ance of her mother, my daughter has turned
al her back on the orthodox creed. Do net set
re any restraint oi, her coaslenuce. When I se
o0 her iagain, ther--"
U. "Ther.- hbat then, Mary? What then T" I
in '"Conput e yio-us-If, Natalie. God will come I
I, to your aimisatanto."
n- ' l., )on underetaNd now why I am so I
id willing t dio,-why I ama so attraated to your
te self? I saw you and your sister in the Cstho
lic Cthurch, for I had continued to go thceru. I
T':oy t.ok me away fr.,w It tly a-A I ilt Inu
: i I·t, P'ro stai::t lhtId, in ord- r It, 4l;,rive e
: ti:e :t ,ii (I ,d i- t:ery ,hera , to :I !1 ':c r '.,l ,
i- . ' ,' . a ! i t it i:u: t b - your car Ii ' .
g: ', ., it ,i orr IHoIly Chunrh "
"Ii I es-y." nobbed Louins, "'Nt;e, Icur
o child! (od is god ; but alas! why ab- i oer I
l'te be so odis:nturbed why may 1 ulnt cry yVui
e- sway to a country far from hero ,whure no t on.u
10 i ki:Os S, and whenr -
a "My mother d wells 7"
t Yeus, lour mother; your roor mother, who i
ii for so many years has snfl-red, wept and
- struggled far from you. Wny should we not
re trast that her prayer is heard I She implored I
d the salvation of your soul as tie price of her
sufferingse; and you too have sunffered for her
'Faith in a most wonderful manner."
a "Time presses. Mary; when shall I see her?"
S"8oon I Son !'
e Natalie's strength visibly declined; walking
Sbecame first dimltolt, then imposaeble; with t
e angel-like patience she bore her sufferings,
e especially from the time that during Madame t
n Monstiers' absenoe Louisa procured for her the
a- dministration of the last consoelations of re
d ligion. She seemed no longer to belong to t
earth, so transformed, so bright was her c
r spirit.'
S Her caprices, her humors had all disappear
ed, which the governess was obliged to so- c
d knowledge to;ber own great astonishment; all
, the sharp edges of her charaoter were worn i
y away. Madame Mootiers had formed many
e acquaintanoes ; it was therefore very gratif- -
r ing to her that the sick girl was so fond of
b Louiser, and that this latter nursed her so ex
n oellently well. Sle could take trips, and
make her visits now wibthout anxiety, and to
- their great contentment leave the two in n- t
d disturbed enjoymentof each other's society.
e With a melancholy pleasure Louisa allevia
i, ted the last sufferings of her child, thaenkieg a
a God that at least this last consolation wee I.
o vouchsafed heo; she sought to forget the fo
Store : the day-the fearful day-when the d
r tfamily shbold come, when desath should teat
ir- Natalie from her. She lived but in the
in present; day and night she remained by ths
x- side of the siok girl; she listened to every sigh
id which escaped from her exhausted frame, and
1r every coughing flI went like a stab to the
a- mother's heart
in "Oh, Mary!" once said Natalie, as Louisa
s- was bending over her full of love, bathing the
burunjg forehead of the sufferin child with a
af cooling mixture, "I do not tbiqk my mother
se could take better care of me than you do.
m and I am afraid-but do not tell her of it
Id that I shall never love her so dearly as I love
to yon. But when is she coming, though "'
Louisa's fortitude failed her at this; she
sank down before her daughter, and, embrac
a leg her, she sobbed oat : ' Have you then not
5e suspected it, Natalle? What stranger would
ir overwhelm you with love as I do Oý, look
D at me! do you not recognize your motberl''
It Then, as the maiden still stared in astonish
a- meet, she drew forth the medallion and wed
ding ring, "'Lok," she said, "that is your
father as he was on our wedding-day, and this
I- ring on which your coat-of-arms is stamped
was the sign of our union."
a Natalie for a few moment, was lost in aon
1 templation, then with an exclamation of the
t sweetest joy she threw her arms round her
I, mother's neck: "0 now I know you, mamma,
dearest mamma! I have often seen your image
1 in my dreams. LHow -eften I have thought
1 yon must be my motbh -r ! but I was afraid I
I was deceiving m)s-sf, that this would be too
t great happiness. Oh, now 1 can die in peace;
I and then-ah,. if papa were but here nowl''
1 On this same evening the physioian sent
for Madame Mouestiers and told her that Na
r talie was near her end, and it was time to ap
a prise the family o( the fact.
Immediately on this, the zealous governess
wrote to St. Petersburg, but forgot to tell
I Louisa she had done so.
t One day, therefore, as mother and daughter
were sitting together, Madame Moentiers hav
Sing gone to the city, the Princess Daimatcbine,
Swhose arrogance and bodily strength were in
I nowise einimnished by her years, entered the
s room in which they were.
r Speechless with horror, she gaszd on the
I scene before her: her grand-daughter in the
r arms of her hated daughter-in-law! It was
a monetroeo! No wonder that she could find no
words in which to express her i':dignation.
s Louisa, too, was taken by surprise at her nn
expected appearance.
Natalio nlone found words. "Granlmimmn,"
- she said, "I have, in these my lot dais, bh.en
s o ha!,ty as to find my bes: rnur-e in n:y own
t hit-th a!"
'Yen her: !"' t length she sttueret'd; * this is
I not yitr p' ce---- :
"JMidarn,!" anwi-tred L3ni's, carb t-entmbing
Slips, :t reo!nt'ely, "},,u drove ii from the
aide of ny ho-band, fr'om the ""i-die of my
chlild, hot ton bI:nn being will I:. found aLibt
to f,-rc m.' fr-ma the death bid of my daugh
I ter.'
i No, no, marma ! yo ,'most not leave me!
SAbh, if 1 had always had you by, nmy side 1 aced
not die soycyng!"
Tees-a words, which escaped Nataliu-for she
r had not chosen them pnrpoauly--maloe at first
no great imepreseion on the prinoees; but .aen,.
Sfill of anger, she left the room to seek Madame
iomyt.irs, who was no lie:~e to ba f.,ud, she
began to refl-ict upon them. What could she
do ? Make a funs, ad send Louiesa away !
Everyone wonld bla-ee her then, even her son.
Madame Mosetiers ku~-v nothing of the aftair;
the i.estimonial had b-en made out in due
form. She herself had a.sotioned the arrange
ment whioh-gave Miss de Roode to her grand
dsaughter as a lady-companion. What was it
now beet to dot To wr:t an account of the
whole matter to her sut, and meanwhile let
her danghter-in-law occupy the position of a
servant; in that way tit least the matter
would remain couceaIlei.
While she was pondering over this, Natalie's
words again recorred to tier, and uxcited her
anger to the last degree. She wrote to Casi
s mir that this was tiO way in which Natalie
had sala'el her, and besought him moat
pressingly to come a. soon as possible.
V1r.
Casimir had mrost :arneatly desire i to do
this long since. b'it, he h.:id f-llen into an un
pleasant sittal on. F'r some time past, those
1 who had envictn I:!ii lhie rank and , fli to, and
who throuot envy had become hig enemies,
1 were seiking to ruop hi:t with the Cztr. Some
inooartious words which foil from him on giving
a toast, his known opini-,on, disliking the GOr
G man element in Rssai. and the prot:ction he
had afforded to some compromised Pole, had
put weapons in their hands which they know
how to use at tie right moment.
I He defended timself as well as he
could; bat his enemies were powerful; the
Emperor, worried by anxieties and carried
away by ohimeras of the brain, lent only a too
willing ear to them. and at the very moment
that tasimir received his mother's letter he
was informed that he was dismissed from cufioe
and that a lawsuit was commenced against
him.
SBt he was so shaken at the news he re
ceived of the state of Natalie's health, at the
expression she had used, as also at the unex
pected appearance of his wife at the deathbed
of their child, that be scarce gave a thought
to the other blow which had been aimed at
hint Without reflecting on the consequences
of his leaving St. Petersburg so suddenly at
the crisis, he set out immediately and flew
through Germany to the sick bed of Natalie.
In the long wearisome hours he spent in the
coupe the whole of his past life unrolled itself
in letters of flame before his spirit. Of what
use had it b-en for him that he had for long
years lived a sad an:d lonesome life, far from
wife and c!ilh, on accoont of Il-eting honors
and grander 7 lIe had now lost what he had
-s:riveu and struggled for se loing with snbch
feverynh z al; tb- t for which he linl secri fiord
L.is .t'e, Iirken hi-s o 'h, sta;inet Lis con
ciii-" t ! A. t l c-iw v.:s dying iu the bloom
4:f ,r' :t, ::. !I ter o i:i mti of tho: death on
i ii. :;,in!. No, be had t-v-r kr.own
t .+S it, :1 . r -t', s d :ivi  lif t:rli idi's' d. rt
i t :1" ' ..f t c 1." c k nd- I ' 1f ,iltrg ai id
Sr:.ii " "v er, -:.-;.r, i. Liaust na:k1oledgo
, T, , - i I0 b mt ctsi isiid con
;,:,t' ci·,,c h !: .:i ri;ven his .Lauica form
A. !1~: , reiclt~id tho l)ntch copital, and
i ra  ne'iotey orderedi iiir-c : to go to Schvenin
gen ; he t :-n~it ouly of Natalie, the child ihe
idolw. id, thoula lie eared the sight of her, for
ii seemedi to hinl she was always repeating
softly the words she had lately snpoken alood.
Arrived at the BIath llotel, he ficat asked for
his mother. The meeting of mother and son
was cOol and formal.
"Is she still alizo "' was hise first question.
"Yes, but the Pl sh woman does no; stir
from her side."
'-She is right. Her plaoe is there, and no
where else. Ill news is heaped upon me. At
the moment I reoeived your letter, notice was
given me that I was dismissed from ofliae, and
that I have to answer a complaint laid against
me before the courts."
"And yet you left St. Petersburg! But
that looks like a flight, an acknowledgment
of guilt."
"It's all the same to me! Of what avails it
now that by your advice I sacorificed wife and
child I
"Be my advioe! but, Casimir, I did it for the
bthest "
"Yee, oertainly for the best; now nothing Is
left me; who knows if Sibersia doaes not await
mel but lead me to her."
Madame Moostier brought the news of Cas
miir' a rriral suddenly into the sick-chamber
Nstalie was lying on the lounge, weaker
than ever: her mother did not stir from her
side."
"'O Gid, papa !" cried out the sick girl, in
a frighteued tone ; she trembled in every
limb.
"You must not be afraid of your father,
dear," said Lnouisa, consolingly.
ar "I cannot help It, I always was. Give me
be your little eross, mamma; that will give me
he oourage. Oh, if I had but died soonert-but
bh no I have a duty to perform.
id Louisa's looks whiob usually shaded her
be forehead somew at, had today fallen back,
from the haste with which she had dressed
ma her hair. so that the soar of the fall shabe had
is had in Wisebaden, whioh had never been ef
a faced. became visible.
or "What Is that, mammal" asked Natalie sad
- denly ; "I never saw that before."
- '"Nothing, my child, that comes from a foill I
re had."
"The sight of it pains me, I know not
te why."
o. "I will cover it"
lt "Is papa coming f I hear him; your hand,
d mamma, give me youear hand."
kr Pale as death, and motionless, Loutaa re
mained kneeling by the aide of the lounge,
1n her hand clasping that of her daughter. She
I- did not look up when she beard the roatle of
ir her mother-in-law's silk dress and the heavy
is tread of her husband.
d They both approaohed in sllence.
Natalie raised herself up, and pressed her
t- mother's hand closer to herself. "Dear father,"
e she said, with a sweet, angelio smile, and
or stretobhed out her band to him.
, She had never smiled at him in that way
a before, and the lay crust which enveloped
t Casimit's heart gave way, melted at the a.ngle
I words spoken so touchingly.
o "Nat 'tie I' he stammered; "Natalie I" and he
s; ank on hbis knees by the side of Louisa. "My
poor child I will you leave me 1 Oh, forgive
t me for causing the sadness of your life, and
your early, early -
Convulsive sobs prevented the unhappy man
from finishing the sentence.
a With looks of deepest eympathxy Louisa
LI looked at father and daughter, but she said
nothing. Timidly did Casimir cast a glance
r at her, and the first thing he saw was the scar
on her forehead that for years and years had
h, baunted his spirit as a threatening symbol.
a "Father I" continued Natalie, and she strok
a ed the crown of his head with her almost trans
parent hand. "Father, let the past rest ! I am
a going away, and would leave the earth with
ja oy, if- Give mOe your hand, father I So ! Let
a me role a while."
And she placed the hands of both together
and held them enclosed in here. "Papa l don't
let mamma wander alone around the world
any more. See, I shall be with you always if
Syou remain together."
Exhanuste, she bank back. Nothing was
audible in the apartment but Castmir's hollow
groans and Louisa's gentle sobs.
S Toe Princess Dalmatchine, who had looked
on the three for an iosta't with a cold, haugh
ty gez ., turued contmptuoously away and left
the room that she might reil~ot on the tidings
Casimir had brou t.t her, and which had
blown down all the castlce in the air of her
ambition.
"Do you promise me that, f-ther 1" asbked
Natalie.
1 "Do net ask me, my child." he saghed; "ask
your mother, whom I cast off She most de
cide. I am no longer favored by fortune;
t uerhape even stand condemned ; she will sure
1 ceast me from her now."
"Mamma, speak ; is it tree? Will you l-ave
a my father again ?"
"What God has joined together let no man
put asunder. If he calls me t. him again I
dare not refuse."
"And your forehead. Louisa 1"
"Peace, be still! Why awaken sunob memo
ries ?"
"'Natalie, do you ask her if she will forgive
Sme; I dare not."
But before the sick git I could speak Louisa
Shad thrown both arms round Casamir's neck
and with a sweet force she drew him towards
herself.
"Oh," said the child, with a blissful look,
"how happy you will be now I Ahb, why most
r I die just at this time t"
Too rays of the son were playing on the
wavoes-the visitors of the baths were parading
t up and down the terraco--the forest wee send
iqg its sweetest fragrance on the wings of the
breeae to the shore-toe bells of toe little
church were cheerily announcing the celebra
tion cf to-morrow's rites, it being Sunday. as
Natalie's soul took flight from the earth. Her
last words no longer desired a longer
life, but were fall of hope. "Adieu, till I see
you again, above, dear parents, one in faith,
one in love !'
Calm and composed, as sie had etood by her
father in his dying moments, Louia now stood
by the earthly remains of her only child. Casi
I mir, on the contrary, when a significant look
from his wife told him the painful truth, lost
all the strength which had enabled him to
keep up through the exciting scenes of the
last few days. He fell down senseless, and
I that same evening a violent brain fever set in.
His mother wanted to take care of him and
nurse him, but he thrust her violently from
him. ' Get away; I have lost everything
Sthrough you," he said; "my place, my name,
i perhaps my honor and, besides these, my child.
Lodolaka I Lodoiska I" and her name oame in
oessantly to his lips.
The old princess became very uneasy con
cerning her son's state. She sent a servant to
I call Louisa, but Louisa returned for answer
she would not quit the dead body of her child.
Prince Dalmatohine had attendants enough to
nurse him; she would remain as long as pos
sible by the remains of her daughter.
But Caeimir's illness became worse so rapid
ly that the proud woman resolved on taking a
step which most have coaest her a great victory
over herself. She descended to the apartment
where the obildlese mother was occupied in
decking the corpse with flowers and laying it
out on a bed of state.
"Louisa," said t ie now humbled princess,
"I do not flattor myself that a rqute s from
me will have more tffect than one from another
person, but forget for a moment your enmity
and aee only the mother in me. My child also
needs help, but he pvshes me away, and calls
perpetnually for you ; perhaps you may succeed
in paciSIIg t:ih. Forget all that has passed,
Loutnsa, ud do not foraeke hisa now when he
is n3'ioappy.
' Where is he I' asked Loaisa, simply, and
without epeaking farther to the princess she
followed her to tbo e;ok chamber. "Is my
triumph t ,e death in this case also ?" Louisa
asked herself aoxiooe.y, as she sprinkled fresh
water on the glowing head of her husband and
whispered to him esftly: "Casimir, be calm;
oar child is with God."
"Lodoishka, do not leave me," he begged in
an anxious tone; "she laid your hand in mine,
oh do not take it away I' and he squeesed her
hands as if he would screw them together be
t ween his iron fingers. "No, you will not leave
me. Serve your God in your own way. We
are terribly punished."
"No," she promised, "I will never leave you;
never, till we are again united to our Natalie."
VHr.
'-Can you nunderstand my sister, Lady Baron
esa " satked Vera of Lady Ten Bsrgbe. "That
she should desire to be with her siclk child I
oan perfectly oomprehend ; but that she should
now worry day and night on aooountof a
family which thrust her from them when they
they were in prosperity-no, that is pushing
virtue a little too far."
"Deer Vera, what would Paul think if he
heard what you say Would he not be afraid
that you knew less of the duties of wedded life
than our dear Lonisa I'
"Paul I but how oan you compare Paul with
that half-barbsrian, Casimir ?'
"If Paul had offended you so often and as
greatly, would yon refuse to stand by him on I
a bed of sicknes ''
" I don't know; but I detest that Casimir,
and cannot possibly compare him with Paul.
It seems to me, if I think of doing it, as if the
tortoe had lost its balance "
"Yet yeon most do this if you woeld jadge
your sister's acts correctly."
"rest may be. Meantme I am glad-oh, if
" papa did best ear me-that I am no loger a
s Pole, that I shall never have anything to do
t with Russia, bat may live among a good civil
Ized people with domestic manners and one
r toms, among whom each a condition as my
:sister's can scarcely exist.
'*INow, Vera, do not overpraise my country
i men; or is it because you wishi to say some
thing pleasant to me ''
"O no. my lady; I like the Dutch because
they all bear the stamp of straightforwardness
and of good, sound common sense, and-"
1 "Because Paul van Kysen is a Dutchman I"
Blushing, she turned away her head; but
t immediately after she began again to com
plain of her sister's too great condeseension in
that she never left the side of the wearisome
siok-oonch of her husband for an instant.
Casimir'e illness lasted for weeks and weeks.
He hovered between life and death, and when
at length toe threatened danger of his life had
a passed away, it seemed doubtful whether he
f would retain the use of his reason. Lidoleka
r alone could master the attacks of rage and de
spair which beset him by turns. Thus passed
several months. Tuey had hired a dwelling
r near the city.
The law-snit against the prince was still
I pending and appeared likely to take a bad
turn. The old princess had returned to St.
Petersburg; the severelesson she had received,
I exercised a beneficial effect upon her charac
ter. She had heaped friendly attentions on
her dsughter-in-law,-who, however, returned
them with politeness but remained cool and
dignifled towards the woman who had been
the first occasion of her unhappiness.
Vera spent the winter partly with the Ten
Berghe.family, partly with her future sister
in-law. She often accompanied the Baroness
on a visit to the young Princess Dalmatolnioe.
By degrees the cloud on the spirit of the
I Prince yielded to his Improving condition of
bodily health; but Vera for some time steadily
refused to meet him. One day, however, en
tering unexpectedly the sitting room, she saw
her brother-in-law seated at the window; pale,
wasted, and his frame bent with weakness.
Louisa was moving quietly yet busily about
the room, and his looks followed her fixedly.
"Come in, Vera," said Louisa, in the most
friendly manner. "There is Casimir. Casimir,
don't you flid her grown very tall t"
Casimir tried to rise, but his weakness for
bade it. Moved with compassion, Vera ap
proached and held her band.
"Forgive me, Vera," he said, in trembling
tones, "in the name of your departed parents.
the sorrow I occasioned your sister and the
had coldidt by which I let her saffer so
many yore. ,d is too good that 1i gave
rue His angel back again."
With tears in her eyces Vera aesur,d him she
forgave him everythiageven as Louoi forgive
tire.
"Yea. as Laniai has fo, :' - . is a saint,
whom I misonderatJo i . own aol my
child's detriment,"
'Dorn't you think she is lice her, Caiumir i"
asked Loaisa, coming nearer and leaaing on
his arm chair.
' Yes, she might have grown like her if her
yo,.ih had known tLe warmth of a mothet's
love."
In April, soon after the f.stival of Easter,
the marriage of Paul von Kyzen and Vera
Florinski was solemnized with great foestivity.
The Baron and Baroness Teaoo Berghe honored
the young couple by their preseanc on the oc
casion. Casimir and Louisa did not make
their appearance, on acoount of the mourning
which they still wore for their daughter, but
before the young couple started on their wed.
ding trip they spent a day witi them in the
city.
Paul looked admiringly at his sister-in-law,
whom he had once thought of for a wife, and
whom he now venerated as an ideal, who stood
far above the ordinary standard of humankind;
he way happy with his dear little wife, whom
he had known and loved from childhood up
wards.
"Are you satibfied with met" he asked of
Louieas. "Was I faithful to the promise I gave
your father 1"
"How can you ask But now more than
ever is Vera confided to your care."
"And you will know better than I did how
to watch over your treasure and prize it at its
real worth." added Casimir.
"Oh, tiir !' said Louisa; "let the past reest."
Tnromtlh unforeseen circomstances the law
suit took a turn in the right direction. Ca-i
mir's cause triumphed; his enemies were de
feat:d; he was restored to his tfl'e,. and the
Emperor himself desired his return. Bat Casi
mir deolined acceptance. "I have bat one de
sire," he wrote back, "and that is to compen
sate my wife for all thesnffering I have caused
her; this duty binds me to existence." And he
hung on t Louisa with almost morbid feel
ing; he could soaroely bear her a moment out
of his eight; yet when he looked at her his for
mer cruelty was ever present to his thoughts.
Louisa, however, understood the art of
guiding his troubled spirit, of raising up and
and tranquilizing his despairing soul; by her
ever constant love and indefatigable care
she convinced him at length that she thought
of the past only to remember that she had
ever dearly loved him and had taworn to him
eternal fidelity. "The weather is so splendid,
Casimir," she said one day, "the spring Invites
as out to enjoy the refreshing evening hour.
Will you not sake a walk with Paul and Vera 7"
"Yes, if you go with me."
"Certainly, if you wish it."
For the first time since his sickness Casimir
left the house. Both couples took the road to
Schveningen, bat Casimir walked too slowly for
Paul and his young wife, so that these went
on before at eome li tle distanca.
"Louisa," said Casimir, "let as go--on
know already-I have not been there yet."
"Will it not affect you too much f"
"No. I dream of her every night. I shall
feel easier when I have knelt at her grave."
"Then we will turn off in thisdiretriou; the
others will fied their own way."
Just then Vora looked back.
' Follow us, at a disltnce,' Lounisa signalled
to her. She iWell nndirs:and how muos Casi
mir wished to ho alone with her at t Aii hLa first
visit to tee grave of his child.
They walked together tP the Catholic grave
yard, which lay still and lonely amid the
brnshwood.
Louisa knew the way. Almost every morn
ing she brought fresh flowers to the little
monument. "Hlere it is," she said, and knelt
down.
They stood before a small but tasteful monu
ment; under a medallion which represented I
the busnet of the young departed was engraved
the text from the high hymn: "I sleep, but my
heart waketh." A small oross, under a framed -
glass, was inserted beneath the words. It was
the cross that Louisa had worn in all her
years of desolation, and from the sight of
which she had drawn courage to suffer and to
gain the victory. A little lower down, the
name and age of the sleeper were also out In
the stone:
NATAL' DArAiTCIIrcm,
1 ae are tof e. Dsuetere of
Cuimlr D~almatehtint
and
Loluisa Florinekl.
Her life wes short, br her memory refreshes the lives
of her paentus lie a sweet fragrance.
Pray for me.
Casimir stood for a while beside his wife.
With an expression of heart-breaking woe he
gazed on the stone beneath which the remains
of his beloved daughter were laid to rest. (
Then his eye fell on the inscription, and it
seemed as if in that his pain Bfirest found some
alleviation; be sank down on the ground, and
copious tears flowed from his eyes. "'I sleep, I
but my heart waketh. - a sweet frag
rance,' " he murmured. "0 Louisa, these
were your thoughtsr; yes, I know it; but her
last words, do you know them still i'
"TIill we meet again, one io Faith, one in
love."
"One in Faith ! Yes, Louisa, teach me her
:a aith and yotrs. Both of you have enitgd
o for it let me learn to know it."
And Louisa bowed her head. Her prayer was
,. heard, her offering accepted.
SThe yet leafless poplar trees rustled saft]y
and mysterioosly to their topmost heads, ts
the last rays of the aun played through t,
tender foliage of the willows as the pair aroms
and arm in arm left God's sere more intimatesl
a united than ever before.
Paul and Vera were before them on the
highway, engaged in oheerfal conversation.
"How glorious is the spring," said Loules. I
t "Yes, they two are in springtime," sighed
Casimir; "but we, Louies, we are in autumno.
"0 no, Casimir; winter follows autumn, aod
e we-we have a meet baantifal spring before
us yet."
Louisa's prediotion was verified. Casimir's
d health was completely restored, and he took
e his Louisa back to Rossia. There they devote
themselves to the welfare of their subjects on
their princely estates. They live far from the
j Court, but first Casimir had something to do
for his wife by way of compensation. Bifore
he retired from public life altiether he pre.
s1 aented Louisa to the Imperial family as the
a Princess Dalmatohine, his beloved and bonored
wife. She was received with great respect,
and thence forth his own family never ren
tared to treat her otherwise than with grat
0 consideration. Even his return to the Catho.
Slie Church made no unfavorable impression.
This last fact increased his self-reproach. How
different his life might have been had ho mani.
feated the like noble firmness from the first.
Meanwhile their lives passed as beautifully
as was possible, after all the the storms they
a had encountered.
Paul and Vera paid them one visit, and bat
one; but every year they went to ol land to
f visit two graves, that of the old Count Florin.
ski and that of their eldest daughter; for at.
though the dear God filled their house with j y
through the merry voices of two frolicsome
boys, yet ineffaceable in the memory of both
parents remains enuraven the rememb:rance of
their first darling, Natalie.
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If misfortune comes upon their friends, as it
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