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A Woman’s Life. BY LAUBA PEN CEL. Ada Holmes paused on the gallery and watch ed with eager eyes the scene visible through the undrawn curtains of her sister's sitting-room. There the young mother Bat in the fitful fire light, her cheek resting fondly against the gold en curls of her sleeping child, her eyes fixed dreamily on the bed of glowing coals. Ada coaid almost read in that rapt face the tender fancies about the future of the little one now sheltered in the loving mother arms. The coals with their magic mirror fell apart and the dreamer roused. The girl, shivering, turned for a moment to the growing dusk, the chill, slow-dropping rain of the street she was quit ting, then went quickly forward ard entered the room. She throw hat and waterproof on a chair and sat at Annie’s feet in silence. ‘Poor child,’ said the latter, ‘you are damp and chilled, and I had fallen into a reverie and f jrgotten to ring for lights. A funeral on a day like this is doubly depressing.’ ‘No. Let me rest. I am tired,’ said Ada, wearily. She looked up with such pain in her tearless eyes and compressed lips, that Annie impulsively bent and kissed her. •The services were long. Are you just from the grave?' ‘No. I walked several squares before I came home, trying to shake oft memory and reflec tion. But when I came in and found you in your sheltered home, with your happy arms about your girl and your happy eyes shining with the reflected light of the future--I saw it all as 1 stood on the gallery there, and you were picturing to yourself her happiness—were you not, dear?—then the bitterness of that other life came back to me a thousand fold. That young mother, no older than you, Annie, thank ing God, as for one gracious boon to cancel all her ills, that she may take with her into the grave the little girl, for whom she had prayed before its birth, ‘Oh God, let my child not be a woman !' ‘Was she so very unhappy, Ada ? I did not know that you knew much of her.’ ‘Yes, I knew. It is such miserable knowledge as a woman does not like to share even with a sister. Now that the earth has shut Josephine away from ail humiliation I can tell you. I met her first three years ago at our church. She was a constant attendant, and a member of Dr. Cale’s Bible cla»3. We usually sat together, and soon became intimate. She was beautiful then. Sen sibility and spirit gave life and sparkle to her delicate, highbred features, and lustre to her large dark eyes. The fire had died in them when you saw her, Annie, and the soul, which is nine-tenths in her type of beauty, had left its throne to sit in mire and ashes. Her wit, spark ling, but never bitter; her unconscious talent and taste—for she had marked taste, and her dress, though never of new or rich material, was always artistic—attracted the girls, but she pleasantly baffled all their efforts at intimacy beyond the church gates. I sometimes walked with her several sqnares after afternoon service, but she never led the way to her own home, or invited me to visit her.’ ‘We used frequently to go together to the dear Old City Cemetery. It bad grown unfashiona ble even then, and very few besides ourselves frequented it Her mother’s grave drew her there, and I went to meet her. There in the quiet and seclusion of the long summer after noons, I learned the secret of her life. Not all at once, and not by conscious revelations. She was too highbred and too proud to complain. But I could see, by little half-cheeked utterances or swift flashes of bitterness and disgus*bn her expressive face, that she was not happy; I be lieve I was her only friend in the city; indeed, she said so, and the heart must have some out let when its springs boil up with gall. Jose phine’s family, the Blands, were refugees from Norfolk; and, during her mother’s life were peo ple of wealth and culture. With what agony of tenderness and regret she spoke of her noble mother ! That memory was the pole star of all those stormy years. The hope to keep herself pure, to meet with glad and level eyes in eter nity, stayed Josephine when, sometimes, her faith lost hold on God. The year the Southern war closed, the mother died. In another year her lather had married again, this time a wo man, the antipodes of his first wife. You have seen her. Annie, the red-faced, gross and low voiced woman, whose glaring dress and vulgar manners attracted your attention at church last Sabbath. She, too, was recently bereaved and brought her widow's weeds and five children to the nuptial altar. Her husband was a blockade runner, smuggler, or something of the sort; and had got together a considerable sum of money in gold. This was entrusted to Mr. Bland for investment. The man had been an employee of his in Norfolk. He risked it together with his own fortune in some mad enterprise to stay the falling Confederacy and both were lost in the general crash. Mr. Bland was a Southern enthusiast. His faith in the Cause did not fal ter to the end; and its utter wreck, then, struck him from his self-poise and unnerved him. About the same time, this woman’s husband was killed in some lawless venture, and she en raged at the loss of the money compromised the matter—by what persecution, who will tell? —with marriage. Their present home was se cured to her; and, by filling it with associates like herself or worse, she broke off its former intimicies. Josephine, when not engaged in household work, kept herself close in her cham ber, which she shared with a step-sister. Even there she could not escape the taunts of avarice and of fierce resentment at her isolation and its implied consciousness of superiority. All of the family sewing fell upon her.’ ‘ I did not learn these things from Josephine. She held her father’s name and acts sacred. But such things always get out, you know. And people who knew them in Norfolk and here, seeing the interest I took in Josie talked to me about her. And so I heard she had a lover and had rejected him, no one knew why.’ ‘A little lover in round jackets, at first, was he; a handsome, careless, daring fellow, a boy hero and dreamer, true to a child-love, fed by poverty and fiction. In this atmosphere of ro mance, the two children grew up. The school boy fancy ripened into the man’s strong passion without a break; and when he marched away with his regiment he left a ring on her hand, and carried with him her picture and her glove. I said he was romantic. Well, he speedily won his spurs on the field, and Basil Boss, the pri vate, became Col. Boss.’ ‘It all came out in a sort of moral storm, near ly two years after our intimacy began. She had made no sign, and I believe would have kept her secret had he only left her in peace.’ ‘ We had got to meeting at the old Cemetery. One porner, a little wilderness of lilac, and hon eysuckle and violets, was peculiarly ours, and then we would bring our books and work, and read or talk together. A desire for those violets lured me thither one spring afternoon, when there had been no assignation. The charm of the place kept me there day-dreaming till near sunset, when she came. She sank on the sward, pale and trembling and too faint to speak. I thought at first that she was taken suddenly ill, but there was a hunted look in her eyes that I breath, and to pray.” She put hex arms around Jme and her face against my bosom and clung to me. Presently, she burst out passionately that she must go away; that it was criminal to stay; that it was a cruel and wicked law that one should not give one’s self rest and peace forev er, when it was more wrong to live than to die!’ I let her go on without a word, only smoothing her hair and clasping her close, until tears oame and the storm had spent its force. When she lay at last in my arms, trembling with exhaus tion. she told me in broken words her story.’ Before they fled from Norfolk she had been played upon to believe her soldier lover false or careless. Through mischance or interception his letters failed to reach her, and her pride was already alarmed when she left that city. His cousin bad been their confidante, and she prom ised Josephine to keep her posted concerning his movements, and to forward his letters. The artful jealous woman did neither. Such items as she did give were carefully prepared to feed the flame that was consuming Josephine’s impa tient heart. Finally, goaded beyond endurance by wounded love and pride, Josie returned his ring and letters, through this same cousin, refus ing to see him again or to open his letters. Made reckless by this injustice and hopeless of self-vindication, he threw himself into the wild est dangers of the field and scout-path, and rev elled, when off duty, in the maddest dissipations of society. Josephine had a brother in the same regiment. One night they watched together on the eve of a great battle, when the enemy’s camp fires were visible on the hills. It was a moment of reac tion and melancholy, and Boss made a full ex position of his unwavering fidelity and her in- explacable injustice. His friend promised his mediation, and sometime afterward talked it all over with Josephine, warmly espousing her lover’s cause. From the fullness of her gener ous heart she wrote an entire recantation of her last action and an avowal of unchanged love. This was intrusted to her brother for deliver ance. On his return to his regiment, Boss had been detailed for some distant duty. Appomat tox followed, but young Bland broke away to Johnson’s army. What need to follow him ? Faithful to the precious missive in his pocket Testament, he inclosed it to Boss with a short note, scrawled by dying hands in a southern hospital. Then the fever had stricken him down while striving to reach Dick Taylor’s band across the Mississippi. Soiled, worn, out of date, the letter reached Boss’ hands to find him married, married to the woman whose machinations had wrought it all. He left Nor folk the hour he received it, and came on direct ly to see her. From this interview she fled to the cemetery. The sight of his passionate despair was more than she could bear, and at his declaration of past fidelity she fainted. Bapidly pacing the floor he untwisted the whole plot. He cursed his fatal rashness, burled bitter scorn at his ab sent wife, whom he vowed he would never see again, and declared he would visit Josephine regularly with or without her consent. Her ter ror and suffering finally drove him away, but he left with an appeal to her pity for his lifelong remorse; and an avowed purpose to renew the interview, to pursue and find her however she might flee him, and renew their old relation of lovers. To the cemetery, the oasket of her mother’s dust, the one saored place earth held for her she came to collect her energies and plan her future. Never to see him again, to interpose some insur mountable obstacle of distance or circumstance, this must be ! But how? She had neither funds nor friends, and her only relatives lived in Nor folk—his home. She bad already vainly tried every door to employment for which she was fitted, seeking a refuge from her coarse step mother. She said she would accept menial ser vice to secure independence. But what woman wanted cook or house maid whose-wsieg-anca of air and person shamed her own ? Josephine had no hope of sympathy a id protection in her miserable home. Mr. Bland was generally in toxicated, and habitually avoided his daughter, who was a wordless reproach to him. His wife had so little of womanliness that she could not even have appreciated Josephine's position. One avenue of escape opened to her, and it yawned at the girl’s feet like the abyss of Hell. This Jim Barton, with whose family Mrs. Bland visited, had shown unobstrusive but unmistaka ble admiration for Josephine. He instinctively recognised the great gulf between them, and, I believe, would never have dared lift his eyes to her as his wife, but for Mrs. Bland. She favor ed his suit, but her rude hints and jests had un til now, excited in Josephine no other feelings but momentary disgust. The man was repulsive in person and manner, low in his taste and ignorant, but honest and industrious, Josephine swayed between dis gust and terror, looking every way for some re prieve. Col. Boss would listen to no appeal. His wilful and reckless spirit would recognize no obligation in a ceremony into which he had been duped and surprised, paramount to the vows of years. His answer to all was: ‘We have been betrayed. I love you.’ But across the threshhold of her married life she knew he would never come. I saw very little of her then. I think the knowledge of her degrading struggle, and even my sympathy pained her. But I know that af ter a second visit from Boss she married Barton. After that she came no more to the Cemetery, and I saw her only rarely at church, when she went away swiftly with her husband, giving me neither word nor glance. I visited her once in her new home in his mother’s house, but his sister’s were present, and though she flushed with pleasure on seeing me sne paled again im mediately, and made no effort toward a private interview. I did not go again till yesterday. His Bister came to me with a message of entreaty: ‘Josephine is dying. Would I go tajier?’ ‘Oh Anna, I was thanking God for taking her all the way ! Her ethereal white face was trans figured with a far away, waiting look, as though she saw across the boundary line into eternity. She begged them to leave us alone; and then turned to me with the first really happy smile I had ever seen upon her face. ‘See, Ada,’ she said, ‘how good God is to me. Here is my little girl that I may take away with me again. She is two weeks old to-day, my lit tle Margaret! and I have dared to name her for mamma since she died. You will cover her with lillies and white rosebuds, Ada ? She at least is pure. Lay her on my heart, when it is still. My MaTgaret, my pearl! She cannot wait longer for me, and I must die to-night.’ ‘Oh, Anna,’ cried Ada, ‘I covered them both with lilies. She was a lily herself.’ An Incident in Naples. How an Insult to a Daughter of General Lee was Resented by Some of her Countrymen. It has been considered to be proper by a num ber of Americans now in this city to give yoar readers an account of the shameful treatment of a distinguished American la ty by one of the proprietors of the Hotel Boyal des Etrangers, one of the largest hotels in this city, and of the just punishment which he reoeived at the hands of gentlemen who were ready to peril their lives in the cause of right and truth against imposi tion and oppression npon an unprotected lady. Miss Mary Custis L9e, a daughter of Gen. Bobert E. Lee, arrived here a few days since in company with some lady friends from Malta, who registered at the above named hotel. It appears that daring the night of the 8th instant, the mosquito bar around the bed ignited acci dentally from a candle which Miss L9e had lighted. In a few moments the flames spread and caught the lace curtains, and the room was soon envoloped in flames, which Miss Lee heroi cally endeavored to suppress, but without suc cess, and fearing that the hotel might be burn ed, she gave the alarm of fire, which soon was h*ard by some gentlemen who were oocupving rooms on the same floor, when ex-Judge Sam uel W. Melton and Mr. W. A. Clark, of Colum bia, S. C., were the first who came to the rescue of Miss Lee, and succeeded in saving her money and valuable jewelry from the flames. The morning following the fire, Miss Lee expressed her willingness to pay all damages, though the fire had occurred from accident. The proprie tor taking advantage of the lady, demanded 2, 000 francs, which was a preposterous and enor mous charge for the damage. A gentleman from Ohio, a Mr. Poland, a guest of the hotel, who has been vice-president of an insurance com pany for a number of years, estimated the dam age at $70. The friends of Miss Lee at once demurred to this enormous charge. The Amer ican consul, Mr. Duncan at this place, was ex ceedingly kind, and protested against the pay ment of any such sum. The proprietor now being foiled in his disgraceful effort to over charge for damage occurring from accident, be came insolent and spoke in a manner which re flected upon Miss Lee. The insult was quickly resented. Mr. Clark, of Columbia, S. C., struck him over the head with an umbrella. In a few moments the proprietor was surrounded by a number of Italians itfbo were clerks, waiters, and attaches of the hotel, but they were met by Judge Melton, Col. John T. Sloan, Jr., Mr. D. A. P. Jordan, of South Carolina, and Dr. I. B. Iioberts, of Georgia, who by their courage and determination caused them to stampede and call for the police. A large crowd soon assemb led about the hotel. The proprietor was de nounced by Col. Sloan for his conduet towards Miss Lee, and challenged him to go into the garden and answer for the same with swords or pistols, which the proprietor declined to accept. It would be well for all Americans to avoid this hotel when coming to Naples. KENUORE University Sigh School, NEAR AMHERST C. H., VA. H. A. STRODE (Math. Medalist, U. Va.), Principal and Instructor in Mathematics; H. C. BROCK, B. Lit. L T . Va. (recently Asst. Ins. Latin U. Va.), Associate Instructor. This school is strictly preparatory to the University of Virginia, and embraces in its' course every branch taught in the High Schools ot the State. For testimonials as to its general character, and partic ulariy as to its discipline, its high moral tone,and the success of its students, see the catalogues. TERMS FOR HALF SESSION : Board and Tuition 9133. 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