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THE ROANOKE tfEWS, THURSDAY MARCH 31, 185)2.
WEARY WAITING.
Oh, the agony of waiting In anxious, dread sus
pense, When pulses ihrob at fever heat, with ham
strings strained unci tense.
When speech w aits on expression waits an un
developed word,
Waits tho knock that never Cometh, the foot
step never heard.
When at evening "would 'twere morning,"
when at morning "would 'twere night,"
When tho oyo is strained to aching and aweary
is the sight;
When tho ear grows dull from listening for
comings long deferred,
For tho knock that never comoth, the footstep
never heard.
When the voice grows weak and husky, when
the breath oomes taint and slow;
When the soul oppressed and saddened for
what it longs to know,
When hours grow from moments and eyes with
tears are blurred
For tho knocS that never comoth, tho footstep
never hoard.
Oh, weary, worldly waiter, on tho seeming
laggard pace
Of the watched-for, longed-for moment, wait
with teccraiuj grace,
On tho promiwjof fulfillment made In His Saored
Word,
That patient vnitir.j will have record when His
knock and sti:p are hoard.
Clark V. Llryun, in Good Housekeeping.
THAT RARE ENGRAVING.
Story of Mr. and Mrs. Clover's
Woddlngr Anniversary.
Beautiful!" said Mr. Clever, ecstat
ically. "Exquisite!" echoed Mrs. Clever,
standing on tiptoe, to peep over her
husband's shoulder.
"Who's the artist?" said Mr. Clever,
putting up his eye-glasses.
"Donnavetti, ot Rome," responded
some one who chanced'to be nearer tho
eight-line than ho himself was.
"And what's the subject?" demanded
Mr. Clever, who, being a business man,
was not quite posted in poetic lore. "A
lady divinity?"
" 'Ophelia!' " interposed Mrs. Clever,
ibriskly.
"Oh!" sr.id her husband, "from
Shakespeare? 'King Lear,' ain't it?"
" 'Hamlet!' " corrected Mrs. Clever.
"Ohl yes, 'Hamlet,' " nodded her
husband. "I knew it must be in some
of those comedies."
"It's a tragedy!"
"What's the difference? It's all one
la the end. But really, that picture's
something different from the common.
I wonder if 1 could get tho artist to
paint one for me like it?"
"Hardly," said a connoisseur, who
was standing near.
"I don't mind the expense," asserted
Mr. Clever, loftily (which wasn't
strictly true, for he did).
"Yes, but unfortunately Donnavetti,
of Rome, died twenty -odd years ago."
Mr. Clever's countenance fell.
"Oh!" said ihe. "I was rather struck
by the picture that's alL"
"So was 1," said Mrs. Clever; "such
a sweet face and the shadows on the
water so perfect! And only look at
the blue-flags and rushes along the
shore. "
"I think there aro one or two en
gravings of it, yet extant," remarked
Mr. Poulett, the connoisseur. "And a
steel-engraving Is next best to an oil
painting, you know."
"Any chromos?" said Mr. Clever,
pricking up his ears. (
" 'Chromos!" scornfully echoed old
Poulett "Of Donnavetti, of Rome?"
"Horrid!" chimed Mrs. Clever. "Why,
1 trot a ehroino yesterday, with a trial
pound of tea that I bought a mere
red-and-yellow daub. Nobody toler
ates chromos nowadays."
So Mr. and Mrs. Clever Went home
from Mr. Moidore Million's picture
gallery opened for a week to the pub
iic, to help ulong some limping charity
on artistic thoughts intent
"1 never saw Mr. Clever so interest
ed in a picture," pondered the lady.
"I'll surprise him with one of those en
gravings for our anniversary present
if it can be obtained. Although did
not really fancy it"
"Maria was perfectly fascinated
with that sprawling woman in the
water," reflected Mr. Clever. "Tastes
differ. Give me a good, red-hot battle
piece or a landscape with plenty of
sunshine. But if money '11 buy the
Ophelia,' it shall be Maria's on the an
nivcrsary of our wedding-day."
Mr. Clever dealt in hides and leather
on Spruce street a lucrative business,
although not an aristocratic one and
just around the corner an old Jewish
picture-dealer lurked, like a human
spider in his den. To Mr. Ezra Elias
sen our hero hastened, and explained !
bis wishes.
"Yesh, yesh, I undershtand," nodded
Mr. Eliassen. "Dere is one at Mento
ni's, but it coshts ah, mine faith, it
coshts its weight in goldl It ish rare
very rare. And dere ish only one in
de country."
"What would it cost?" asked Clever,
with his hands In his pockets and one
foot tapping the fender.
"Sheventy-flve dollarsh," said Mr.
Eliassen, after a hurried calculation
that the engraving might possibly cost
frim twenty.
.."Ordcr it, then, and don't let a soul
.y what your order's for. Mum'
Wd."
idcrshtand. I undershtand."
M-.ver uade haste to her friend,
j-Wgt," she said, ' 'I ntutl have
Sj by What's-hiS-namo,
f vrjftjt to surprise my hus-
It be a pro-found secret
fo& monly," said Mr. Poulett
$his penhindle against his teeth,
&eii ha wili't an art critic for the
. ("papers he M as paying-teller in an
w,'wn bank.
don't care what it sosts," said
Clever.
"Sixty dollars at least," said Mr.
Poulett, whose conscience was less
elastic than that of old Eliassen.
"Then let It be secured at once,"
said Mrs. Clever. "It will take tho
whole of my month's allowance, but
the grocer and baker and other trades
people will all trust me, Jknow
So Mr. Poulett wended after bank
ing hours to Mentoni's.
Mrs.
Wc had one?" responded the clerk,
"but It's just been ordered."
"Ordered?"
"Ye::.. By o!d Eliassen."
"How much did ho givo you?" ques
tioned Poulett.
"Twenty dollars."
"Put him ft, cant you? I'll give
thirty."
Well, said the clerk, dubiously
stroking his chin, "I'll try and Bee
what can be done; but Eliassen's a
crusty fellow to deal with. I can write
him a note, though, and say old Mcn
toni himself had sold the. picture with
out my knowledge."
Eliassen trudged around that same
evening, in a rage, ana bade still uiguer,
so that M. Mentoni's veracious clerk
gravely informed Mr. Poulett that,
though sorry to disoblige a customer,
they could not really resell a picture
which had once bucn ordered. It was
contrary to their principles.
"Come, said Poulett, "that's all talk!
If I give you forty dollars for it"
"Quito out of tho question, said tho
clerk, who had been offered the same
sum by Ezra Eliassen.
Fifty, then. It's more than it's
worth, but my friend rather fancies
it"
Tho clerk stroked his chin again.
"Well if it's a possible thing to Im
port in time another for old Eliassen."
"How soon docs ho want it?
"By the third of February, without
fail."
"Very singular." said Mr. Poulett
"My customer named the same day, . I
say, Jackington, I must have it at any
price. Come! I'll give you seventy
five down for tho picturo, possession to
to be given at once."
And Mr. Jackington closed tho bar
gain. Tho picture, neatly packed, was
delivered to Mr. Tsulett, who immedi
ately informed his fair client that the
"Ophelia" could not be bought for less
than a hundred
A hundred dollars? Oh my!" said
Mrs. Clever. "A hundred dollars for a
mere engraving."
"But such an engraving, ma'am,"
bowed Mr. Poulett "One of tho finest
specimens of art in the country. It
will be a gem, a perfect gem."
"Well, said Mrs. Clever, recklessly,
"I'll tako it Not that I should ever
care to look at it twice but it's Clev
er's taste."
Old Ezra Eliassen shook his head,
when Mr. Clever came around the next
day to see if he had purchased tho
"Ophelia."
"Mentoni's copy is sold," said he;
"for a hundred dollars!"
"Sold! Oh, hang it!" bawled Clever.
"But there's one thing, whoever paid a
hundred dollars for that thing was a
full-sized fooL"
"I could import one like it for tho
same money," 6aid Eliassen. watching
his customer's face.
"Could you, though? By tho third of
February?"
"I goessh sho!"
"Import it then! I'll not be balked,"
said Mr. Clever, bringing his clenched
hand down on the rail of old Eliassen's
desk. "It's more than I can afford and
three times what the thing is worth,
but Maria likes it and Maria shall bo
suited for once in her life. But mind,
it must bo on tho spot by tho third of
February, or not a red cent do you
get!"
"There shall be no mishtake," nodded
Ezra Eliassen.
The taird of February came; and
Mrs. Clever radiantly awaited her
husband's appearance in the breakfast
room, with a brown paper package all
twined and scaled on the table. Enters
Mr. Clever with a ditto package under
his arm.
"Dearest," said Maria, "this is tho
tenth anniversary of our bridal-day!
Accept thio memento of love."
And she gave him brown paper par
cel Number One.
"Hello!" said Mr. Clever. "And I've
got something for you, Maria," hand
ing her brown paper parcel Number
Two.
"Oh, a thousand thanks!" sighed
Maria.
"Much obliged, I'm sure," said Mr.
Clever. And they both went to work
with scissors and penknife at the twine
and paper. And out of both wrappings
emerged the same fair, floating
"Ophelia," in the sane glassy stream,
with the same blue-flags blossoming
along its edge
Mr. and Mrs. Clever looked at each
other, and then at the "Ophelias."
"I meant to surprise you, love,'
gasped j.irs. uevcr. "Ana youvo
thought of the very same thing. How
kind of yon!"
"By Jove, I am surprised!" said Mr.
Clever, blankly. "Two of 'cm! And
each one uglier than tho other!"
Mrs. Clever began to cry. Mr. Clever
put his hands in his pockets and
whistled And fast then in bustled
Uncle Chipley, who always breakfasted
with theKi on tiiL-ir anniversary day.
"Hallo!" said Uncle t'hiplcy. who
was rather a dabster at tho flue aria.
"Donnavetti' i Ophel a, eh? lint you've
got two of ma. A l..nrain, eh? Or at
auction?"
"I pave a hundred dollars for mine,"
whi.ipercd Mrs. Clever.
And 1 gave a hundred for mine!
exclaimed her husband, dragging saV'
agely at LU mustache.
Then you were both great fools,
mildly remarked Uncle Chipley. "
saw half a shop full of 'em in Paris,
vhea I was over there last, for tea
dollars apiece, American money1
They're a regular drug in tho market,
over thero!"
"Of course, I appreciate tho atten
tion, Maria, and all that sort of thing,
began Mr. Clever, "but 1 don't want
this gushy thing on my walls!"
"And I r,m sure it would give me the
mghtmaro to havo that drowning face
in any room," retorted Maria, crisply,
And she jjr.tod out of the room in
manner not at all befitting a wedding
anniversary.
ad i u anyone wants a proof ea-
jfraviajrof Dnanavctti's "Ophelia." ho
may 2nd two of them at the establish
mentof Mr Ezra Eliassen. who bought
thorn of the Clevcra' for five dollars
apieee, and is prepared to sell them for
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