Stories by Foreign Authors

quite wide, impediments in them made it difficult for the ladies to go side by side. The autumn showed itself uneven and jagged. The currant and gooseberry boughs, that earlie

aps, have come to the conclusion, that even if these two had been together on the most unobstructed road, no confidence would have arisen between them, and would have suspected the hostess of trying to atone for her lack of interest, by being polite and careful. She was not strikingly handsome, but possessed of a fine nature, which manifested itself in the whole figure, and perhaps, especially, in the uncommonly well-formed nose; yet it was by peering into her eyes that one first obtained the idea of a womanhood somewhat superior to the generality of her sex. Their expression was not to be caught at once: they told of both meditation and

out Emmy Ibsen's marri

about a month

was brid

elm, in a voice which

s at the shoo

as if she had learned it for "I don't care." "Take care,

ss Brandt, and avoided it as charmingly a

than wedding-parties commonly are; but this

S

gay ... I was his

A

e table he stands up decl

s lady

not, I think. Do y

d I know that,

whirl

whirl

s love letter or his promise out with the wind, and he was continuall

he young hostess at this moment had relaxed her polite care, and

he termination of the walk, turned toward the house side by side,

perhaps only to make himself conspicuous, for certain gentle

ttered a dou

Have you ever seen any lad

em, but I should suppos

as really coquettish. I don't know how it is with th

hen, Counsellor B

romantic love for a fairy, he often does court to mode

nbecoming

t he is

y known one war counsellor, and he was old;

gger is not war counsel

Counse

t is! And so he is i

d reached the house, and Miss Brandt complained that something was yet pricking her a

n a situation like this one can surely live in the country summer and winter. O

be bad in a

hirlwind carried such billets: not that one would car

es! pe

, when there came from Heaven a billet, in which

rence quite so uncommon. A friend of mine once had suc

h things away? Hav

in drawers, and small boxes, than was really necessary, she found it. Miss Brandt read it, taking care

one gives away!" sh

sked Miss Hjelm, as though

ager acceptance; but she checked her

riosity." Then slowly put it

away, said Miss Hjelm's cousin, a

ars to me you laugh with one

burst for me, and glitte

the sentimental enigmas: can

n has vanished, that ha

inquiring or sympathizing look. "So it b

nth year I saw an ideal of a man, and was enamour

ropping her eyes; "but I suppose that then you had a pretty visio

re than a vision; it was

necessary. Beside this the cousin knew, that when Ingeborg was inclined to talk,

iolently against me, that I could hardly breathe; and something blew against my veil, fluttering with wings like a humming-bird. I tried to drive it away, for it blinded one of my eyes; but it blew back again. So I caught it and was going to let it fly away over my head, but t

" answered Miss Hjelm, with a plain simplicity, showing how

h perhaps was somewhat ironical: "And did you then resolve to remain unm

more guarded; "but the letter perhaps contained some stronger

and

ented the letter

e it awa

obably wrote it in his youth, has spoken about it

, half audibly: "when the ideal is

ng fumbled in public. I would get away from the temptation to think of him

ting her arm affectionately around Ingeborg's waist

nderstand, feels somewhat for him. They two can get each other; and what a wond

e year, without another surmising it!" Suddenly she added: "But

and, besides, Miss Brandt is a judicious girl," answere