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THE ROANOKE NEWS, THURSDAY, MAT U, 1893. THE COMTESSE'S DILEMMA. That Spring morning, unable to ileep on account of tbo light which came through the windows and curtains that stupid Rosette had forgotten to close the blinds the Comtesse "Valentino resolved to take a walk through the woods and meadows. It would be charming, an escapade among the wet leaves, in tbo high grass where diamond-like drops shone here and there. Sho had nothing to say against the- guests of tiie chateau who, without exception, eld or voung, paid court to her with tho mo:-t Uatlering persis tency, rivaling ei-.oh other all day in sinking her praises; but an hour of solitud'o in tlio freedom of tho air, in tha sunshiny mystery or the trcs. is wt disjili'iiwng, even to a Psrisieune; one may well wish af ter i-avinp heard all" the men say about it. to listen to tho little tattle of the birds. She sni'ang out of bed, did not ring for her feniino do chambrc. was dressed in the winking of an eye her costume was the most simple in the world and went down the stairwav with the slight clic-clac of her heels on tho steps, amid tho silence of the slumbering habitation. She began to run because a bird flew. Sho crossed the down, mix ing with the transparent mist the transparency of her skirt, sprang over the brook, penetrated among the tall trees; and, as when beside the flower-bed she had believed herself a flower, she thought in the wood that sho was a dryad. She was out of breath and de lighted. Remembrances of an idyl came to her, with a desire to be its nymph or its shepherdess. Were there no longer young fauns watching in ambush behind the bushes, ready to bound, little bare feet which hasten toward the springs she would have willing ly taken off her boots as a conces sion to mythology or young goatherds playing the flute while their goats crop the bitter moss? But what charmed her above all was the coolness of the breeze. Puffs, coming from she knew not where, caressed her forehead, her yes, her lips, her neck, imitating the furtive kisses of a somewhat cold mouth, raised her 'sleeves, made her corsage gape, dared to glide, like an invisible kneeling, beneath her flying skirts. Ah! tho lovely shiver, from head to foot, over all her skin yet moist with the warmth of her bed! She breathed the morning air, offered bersolf to the breeze with the pleasure of an opening sail, she smiled, sho laughed she sneazed! She grew serious, ior the caso was grave. Suroly she was catch ing cold: and for a lady who, with reason, was proud ot tier slight and delicate nose, a trifle pink toward the tip, never red to have a red nose, just Heaven! there is nothing more absurd than to have a cold. See what one gets by go ing out early in the morning! It would have been so easy for her to kavo prudently remained in ! d. And the evil was certain; s.. - would have an influenza which would last the whole week; sho folt in her nostrils a continuous, muddeninsr, insupportable tick ling. A cold! She have a cold like an ugly woman! While stamping her foot on the grass and moss from which the dew scattered like a shower of diumonds, she hunted in her pocket. Ill-luck heaped on ill-luck! Sho had dressed herself with such haste, she had come out so quickly, that she had forgotten to get a handkerchief! Now the little tickling at the tip of hernosft had become sharper. There was nothing to be said ; she must blow her nose, must blow it that very instant, and as she had waked very rapidly, then run, she was at least a good league from the bureau in Portugal wood in which so many perfumed, crest snow white cambrics lay, one upon the other, like tho wings ot loving doves. Fate brings us to the hardest extremities! Vfdentine thought of her underskirt, edged with Valen ciennes! But to lilt up her under skirt in open day, in the country great Heaven! Sho ctmid never make up her mind to do that. Some one would certainly pass i the very moment she hud raised theli;ht material to her nose, sho would be surprised in that ridicu lous attitude, and that would be enough to mako her die of shame. No, no, never! Rather rather what? What menus should sho employ? How was she to get out of her embarrassing situation? Ach! ach! that continual tick lino:! Valentine tore off a leaf. The leaf, too slight, too slippery, got away from her. obstinately re fused to render the unforeseen service which was exacted of it. Valentine picked a flower; the flewer, applied to her sensitive nostrils, seemed only to redouble the intolerable tiokling. In truth, . extif ordinary thing was about to happen. Borne one, a peasant, seated at the low door of a forest hut, had juat Igioezed aud drawn from his ,.9" " pockot a red cotton handkerchief, clean and still folded. "Ah! monsieur," cried Valen tine, "wait an instant. I suppli cate you to lend me your hand kerchief! Give it to me, sell it to me; at no matter what price, soli it to me, I beg of you." It was a very young man, al most a child, small, puny, with a sickly look and freckles all over his face. Ho wore a ragged blue blouse, open at the breast, which DO YOU KNOW That you can have your eyes tested ac curately, and fitted with glasses by practical optician at YOUNG'S JEWELRY STORE displayed tho thinness of his bust; his bare feet were thrust into big, down-at-tho-heel shoes, without strings, a miserable lad, without doubt too weak to bo employed in tue toil of the farm house or tho fields, and who, through fear of marauders, had been charged with watching sawed wood corded up in the clearing. He raised his head, tho hand kerchief in his hand, and said, in a drawling voice: "1 know you well. Yon aro the lady of the chateau down there. You often pass along the roa 1 in the paths on horseback with gentlemen. As soon as I hear the horses' hoofs I hide be hind the trees; and I look at you until you have disappeared. You are pretty in a riding habit! You are very pretty aUo in that dress tins morning! You have asked me for my handkerchief! Why? Haven't you a handkerchief, you who are rich?" "(Jh, yes!" said she, "I have one. Don't trouble yourselt about that. Give me yours immediately." "I am willing," he replied, "but what shall I get in ex change?" "V hatever you want!" "Money?" "Yes, money. Fix the sum yourself. You have only to come to the chateau; you will be paid what vou ask for." He looked at her. "I don't need money," said he. "Well, what do you want? speak, but for mercy's sake make haste!" "If you want my handkerchief, promise to send me another, one of yours. I lodge in this hut; I can be found here all day and all night." Sho did not fail to notice the singularity of this demand, though the tickling in her pink nostrils was exasperating her more and more. "Yes, yes, it's agreed! Rosette will bring you what you want this very day." "Thank you," said he. And ho crave her tho red cotton handkerchief in which, without losing a minute, she buried her noso with a little buzzing sound like that made by a wasp whon it settles. Valentine got off with her fear. Dostiny spared her tho disaster of catching a cold! But amid the joy of not having a red nose she took care not to forget her promise. It seemod to her tolerably strango after reflection that a peasant should have preferred such a vaiu recompense to a sum of money. Good! He had, with out doubt, taken it into his head to make a present to some girl of the neighboring village with whom he was in lovo! Well, no matter: a prettv perfumed hand kerchief of Valenciennes, with crown embroidered on it, was brought by Rosette to the young lad of the forest, and the Com tesse thought no more of the mat ter. One evening, when she was walking in the wood, not alone, but with her head bent toward the shoulder of the man she loved she noticed between tho branches a tiny point of light. She stopped and recognized tno torest hut Curious, she approached. She saw, through the half-open door, the puny lad sitting on the d'Kir, bent over and holding in his clasped hands something light and white, which ho sometimes kissed and with which ho occasiona wiped his eyes, which were full of tears. , At the sound of footsteps on the moss ho gave a start, aroso and with all speed hid the hand kerchief beneath his blouse, against hid Hush: then he blow out his cn:idle, left the hut without speaking, as if ho knew not that any one was there, and plunged into tho forest, which was very dark and very melancholy. 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