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POOIt CFI11IS TINE.
" I rotucmber it fifty year9 ajo, TrcJ,"
an olJ man saij to his companion, as
they both stood looking up throuah tho
June sunshine at the great front of the
Cathedral ut Rouen. " Yes, fifty years
ago 1 stood before it a9 we ara stuodinr
now, and I think the very same birds
were building their nests tlici up over
the porch there. Look hyw they fly in
and out ! IIuw many generations of
thetn have lived there, do you thiuk, my
boy !"
Tiioy stood iu the open square, with
their backs to the cafes and tho gay
shops, the sunlight falling tenderly on
the great gray sculptured walls before
them, lighting up shaft and capital and
nioho with all their " kitiply crowning,"
with all their wondrous workmanship of
living form and clustejed pinnacle.
" Fifty yea:s ago !" lie 6aid again,
softly " Poor Christine !"
Fifty years ago Frank Liston. had
spent a summer holiday in Rouen; lie
was abuut nineteen then, a high minded
enthusiastic youth. His father was
dead, und he was educating himself to
be an artist, and wa. looking forward
with all tho eagerness of a generous na
ture to the time when he should be able
to remove Lis mother, who was poor
now, above all want. Young as he was
he had worked to hard already that he
had more than once earned something
for ht r, and with a flushing cheek had
poured his golden guineas into her lap ;
aud she, by hard pinching, had saved
some ot these guineas, and this summer,
because in striving after such early
wages he had begun to outrun his
strength, she made hitn take a few of
l lie in again, aiid st'nt him across tho
channel to visit (whut in his heart she
kuew ho lunged to see) some otic or two
o the old pt(jtu.io.s:ue French towns.
It was bright June weather when he
reached tho first of thetn at which he
meant to halt, Rouen, und saw from fur
away, the dark old city, towards which
for years his artisits heart had tended,
stretched out amidst the windings ot
the Seine. He hal been laughed at
by one or two beture he started on his
journey, and had been t .Id that this old
Houen was nothing but a miserablo town
of grimy, tottering houses and blacken
ed churches, but the youth had gayly
returned laugh lor laugh. He kuew
well what he had crossed tho sea to seek
and he knew that he should not fail to
find it. Xor did he. He found it even
in the midst of those decaying housos
nud mouldering churches ; he found it
in tmrrow streets and in neglected cor
ners ; and wheresoever he discovered it,
whether in open square or hidden alley,
he hailed it as men hail tho sight of
long sought, long unseen friends' faces
lie had biougbt his sketching board and
all his materials for drawing with him,
and, holiday though it was, he meant
to work throughout it, but the novelty
and the loveliness of everything nbout
him distracted hi to so at first, that a few
clays had passed bebre he could do any
thing but roam and gaze around him.
He had becu for three days iu ltouen
before at length he took his post oua
morning before the west front of tho
cathedral aud began to draw. Ii was a
mild, warm summer's day, aud the
r i I . ' !
square was very quiet, uuiy a iow
people) passing in ana out of the church,
and occasiually a child or two, attracted
by curiosity to steal near and staro at
him, disturbed him as ho worked, and
hour after hour passed happily over him
During hour utter hour, too, thero was
one person besides himself who, having
come to the square before him, remain
ed till long after ho had gone away i
girl selling rosaries and little images at
tho cuthedral door. Alter ho had
been workiug fur some time ho noticed
her. When his work was over, and ho
came forward before he turned home
wards to enter for a few niiuutes into
the church, he stopped when he came to
where she sat iu the cool shadow of the
porch, and looking into her basket took
up in his hand little rosary of coral
beads.
' How much?" ho asked.
' A fraho, moutieur," she said
Sbe tutted and thanked him as he
gave tho money to her, and he took his
beads and passed on. He thought for
a moment: "what a pleasant smile sho
has 1" aud then he thought no more of
her till tho next morning, when he cam
back to resume his work, and found her
in her place again.
Thtjt day he took note of how pictur.
esquo the quaint old Xormandy dress
looked on her, the great high uap so
scrupulously Btarchcd and white, the
short petticoat so bright in hue. A
trim, neat figure; too, rounded and light(
and finu ; a young, bright face, not beau
tiful, but pleasant as sunlight to look up
on. He should like to make a sketch
some morning of her, ho thought, and
that day when his work was done he
weut up to where she sat, and entered
into talk with her. He had a frank,
fearle9, boyish babit of talking to every
kind of pcrsou who camo asross him.
man or woman, gentle or simple. For
years already, ever since lie had thought
of becoming a painter, he had been ao.
customed to ream about the country, at
taching himself sometimes in all simple
faith to strange enough companions,
fulling into odd adventures, running oc
casionally some lisks, and yet always, by
some good guidance or instinct, escap
ing s:atheless from all; bringing his
fresh, honest, trusting nature, thai, think
ing no harm itself, suspecting no harm
in others, undiiumcd and unsaddened
out of every trial. Ho weut up to the
girl and asked,
" Do you come here with your basket
every day ? "
They had already exchanged a littlo
nod of rocognition.
" Yes, monsieur, every day, " sho ans
wered. ' Well ; and don't you get very tired
of it?" ho said.
" Tired of it?" she repeated with a
smile that showed two rows of even
snowy teeth- " O no, monsieur ; T. know
everybody who passes here, and I amuse
myself with watching for them. There
are hundreds who come every day, win
ter aud summer, as regular as the clock
there. Then I see all the strangers, "
she exclaimed, iu a tone of gentle exul
tation ; "theiois not a creature ever
comes to Rouen, they say, but he comes
here. "
Well, if-you look out for strangers
you will soon see plenty of me, " Frank
said, goodhumoredly ; "fori shall be
hero every day, I dare eay, for the next
two or three weeks." .
' I saw monsieur tho first day he
came, sho answered, witn a smue ;
... ... i -i
' he came aud stood looking up there,"
poiuting with her finger to the church
front, " till I thought he was couutiug
all the figures ou it. "
He gave a laugh and then colored a
little ; young as he was, he blushed for
a moment at the thought that when ho
did not know it a woman had been natch
ing him.
" Well, I waa not counting tho fig
ures exactly, " ho said : " but do you
kuow what I have been doing these last
Jwo days .' 1 iiuve been urawiug tne
church making a picture of it. I am
a painter," ho said, with youthful dig
nity.
"Ah! so?" And the bright brown
eyes looked up into his face, not awe
struck, but a littlo curious and wander
ing.
" I will show you my picture present
ly, wbeu I have got on a little further
with it, and then you shall tell me if
you thiuk I have made it like. Now
when you sit here all day. hour after
hour, " ho said, inquiriugly, ' do you
ever think much about the church ? "
" Mousieur ! " she said, and the brown
eyes opened wider.
" I mean, do you look at it much and
try to find out what the figures on it
meau ? Do you ever thiuk about the
people who built it ? "
She looked at him with a half pity
iug smile, aud said :
" Mousieur, the church is very old
thev are all dead. "
All deadl I should think they
were. " be answered, nuickly. " Hut
what is to prevent you from thinking "
them, though they are dead ? ' You
know thev were alive once. Now one
of them must have cut these littlo twis
ted shafts here once; have you never
wondered who he was, or what became
of him?"
Sho shook her head placidly.
" What would be tho use ? I could
not find out, " she said.
" No, you could not find out ; but you
mUht try to fancv them all at work
here, might you uot ? and how they
came, jut as you come, day after day,
all these hundreds of years, and set up
stone after stone, and carved figure af.
ter fioure. Think how thev must have
watched their work and grown happy at
the sight of it. Just think of them all
here, with their hammers striking the
stono, and tho noise of cvety blow in
tho air, all of them talking in a language
that would bo uluiost like a strange
tongue to us now. You kuow it all teas
; why can't you think of it? "
" It may bo easy monsieur to think
of the dead, " sho answered, simply,
" but for me I do not find it easy, un.
less it may bo of the blessed saints, "
and she crossed herself; " but then we
know that they lived ; while as for those
others " sho said, and slightly shrug,
ging her shoulders, broko off her sen
tence with a dubious smile.
He had nearly burst into an answer
about the saints that was moro impetu.
ous than reverent; but happily he check
ed himseif in time, aud, instead of speak
ing, stood looking tor a minute iu silence
up over the great, dark, glorious church,
front, aud wondering at what he had
said. Out from tho gray, solemn stones
thero seemed a thousand voices that
poke to him : how could it be, he
thought, that this girl had passed her
life under the shelter of its shadow,
aud that to her every tone of it was
dumb.
Thch you don't care for it?" he
said, abruptly, at last, turning to her a.
agaiu ?
" Nay, monsieur is mistaken, " she
nnswered, gently. " See, it is like home
to we here ; when it is hot summer, I
sit here iu the cool shade ; when winter
comes, I shelter myself hero within the
porcn. It is like a good friend to me ;
other things chango, but it never chang
es. When I am g'.ad I go in and kneel
down and thank the blessed Virgin, and
when I am sad I go there too, aud say
my prayers. No, monsieur is wrong ; I
cate for it. "
She raised her face nith a sudden
smile as sho paused, aud, eager to bo
lieve that all tho world cared for what
ho loved, eager for a universal sympa
thy with his own cushusiasm, he looked
with pleased contentment into the girl's
clear, honest ejes, and
" Well,l am glad you like it," ho
said, heartily. " I thought you could
not have lived heie so many years, and
have cared uothing for it. You have
lived in liouen all your life, do you say ?
how lonsj a time is that? "
" I am twenty, " she answered.
" Are you ?" Why you are qldor than
I am, theu ! And what is your name ? "
"Christine, monsieur," she answered.
Some one passing into tho church
had stopped beside her bisket, aud was
beginning to look over its little stock of
images and beads. She had to run
round to attend tohini, and theu before
bis purchase was made another custom
er came. rratiK lingered and iookcu
on for a few minutes; then he said,
" Good by, " and the boy aud girl smil
ed to one auotuer, ana parted with a
friendly nod.
He weut homo, and there was some
thing pleasant to hitn in the thought
which crossed him ouce or twice during
the remainder of the day, that in the
morning lie should see Christine again.
Several times hor face rose brightly up
before him, with its- contented, honest
smile, aud sent a kind of warmth into
his heart ; for, fair and dear to him
was this old Rouen, yet he moved as a
stranger iu it, and no other lips than
those of hers had given either greeting
or kinkly word to him. And so, when
he went to his post again next day, and
she, who had been watching lor him, at
once when he appeared nodded and
smiled to him across the square, instead
of srat'oniiig himself in his accustomed
place and beginning his work, as he had
meant to do, he walked straight to her ic
a sudden impulse of gratitude for her
cheery littlo tvkea of welcome, and, like
a thorough i.n'lishinan. put out Ins
hand to Jer.
" You are tiro only crealuro that I
know iu Rouen I " he exclaimed, " ex
cept my landlady, aud she is quite old.
As I came along just now, t was wonder
ing whether you would be hero before
me. "
" Ah, monsieur, " sho said, laughing,
" I have been here for hoars. Look
there, it is ten o'clock. Do you think
I begiu my day so late as ten, o'clock ? "
" Is it really ten ? Then I must be
quick and. begin ray work, too. By
the way, I wonder 0, may I call you
Christine ? " ho asked, abrnptly.
"Certainly, mousieur; it is my name-"
" Thank you. Well, I was goiug to
say, I wonder, Christitre, if you would
let mo mako a sketch of you ? "
" Of ma?" and tho girl blushed with
sudden half-shy pleasure.
" I think I could do it, if you wouldn't
miud sitting to me. I dou't catch like
nesses always very well, but I think I
should succeed with yours. May I try ?"
" But monsieur, could rind so many
prettier girls"
"0,1 don't want prettier girls; I
would rather have you, " he interrupted
her bluntly. " You will lot me do it,
then, won't you ? When may I begin ?
If I were to come early to. morrow say
at eight o'clock would you be here
then ? Would that suit you ? "
" Any hour that suited monsieur." -
' Very well, then ; eight o'clock to
morrow morning. And now I must go
to my picture." Ho turned half away,
aud then looked suddeuly back. "Have
you a father and nioiher, iMiristinc ? "
he said.
" No father, monsieur, but I have a
good mother. She makes up all my ro
saries for me. I buy the beeds and tuke
them to her. and she striugs them so.
Sho makes these crosses, too. She is
very feeble but she dots all that for me."
" And then you come and sell thetn,
Christine?" he said, quickly. "Do
you know, I have a mother, too, aud I
work for her. We are not very rich,
and I make drawiigs aud sell them. "
' God bless you, theu, monsieur, "
she answered, fervently ; "you will never
be sorry for doing that. "
He was touched by her genuine tone
of sympathy.
" No, 1 know I shall not. I would
rather help her than do anything else iu
in the world, " and the color rose up to
his check.
Sho smiled, looking in his face as he
spoke. After a moment's silence she
sail, simply and earnestly
' It is sometimes hard for me to cam
a living, harder than I hope il will ever
bo to you, monsieur ; but I would rath
er be just a poor girl as I am, aud have
my mother wi;h mo, thuu be tho great
est lady in Rouen without her. " And
then she glanced up with a sunny look
that cleared away tho tears which had
riuen for a nioiueut to her eyes, aud
"But even me the world docs not treat
very badly, " she said, cheerfully. " It
is a little hard to me now and then,
and when it is, I go iu there and
pray to the dear Virgin, and before loug
tho sunshine comes back again. It nev
er btays long away. Thero are many
good people in the woild, monsieur, to
L'OAI-l trio Wi trtf Vrtiii Lforvlnn "
She htid a sweet voice, loweraud soft J
er thau Freuchwomau's voices often are.
Tho fuee, too, had sweetness iu it. He
saw that now, though he had only notic
ed its bright, pleasant honesty before.
'But I am keeping you from your
picture, " she said smiliugly, after a mo
ment's silence.
That was true; so with a few more
words ho turned away ; aud, statiouiug
himself in his place, began to work. It
was a calm, ray summer day, wiudlcss
aud sun'ess, yet with a softened bright
ness in it that shone through the thiu
clouds. He sat and worked, and, as the
sketch weut ou J bit by bit he seized
and made a possession for himself ot the
loveliness before him, in tho veryjy
and boyish lightness of his heart, he
could have sung aloud. He had work,
ed so well yet upon uo other day; all
life seemed full of gladness to him, and
u life especially, his glorious painter's
me, so great anu noble, no bad no
poius probably, tix'B boy Fiauk Litton ;
but bis cheek could burn and his beait
could beat with tho love of all Boblo
things. Ho never niado the world rtnjf
with his name, but in his bright youth
there wero days and this was one of
them when it almost seemed as if th
power was given him to cut his way
through tho diamond gates.
He worked till it was growing late.
All day, amongst tho many things that
had made him happy, one thing had
been the presence of Christine. A boutl
of sympathy had sprung up betwecu
him and the simple, uutaught, poor
French girl real human sympathy,
such us made even the sight of her
across tho square a thing that kept his
youug heart warm Ho liked to look
up now and then and catch her smile;
it was as good as sunlight to him. Tho
old sto'ics had theii voices for him aud
tales to tell him, noblo and sweet and
sad, but while ho listened to them it was
good also to lift his eyes up somtimcs
and look ulou a friendly, living face,
II o knew it was; he kuew us he sat at
work that bis day had been the brighter
for Christiuc.
Nor was it the lust, by many a one,
hat bhe helped to brighten for him.
From this time forward she became his
one friend aud ono companion in Rouen ;
and no gentler friendship, no more hon
est aud pure companionship- ever exis
ted than that between those two tray
wauderers tho girl, whose portion iu
this world was tho selling of her beads
at tho church porch, aud tho boy, whose
beck: u'ag leacju-iight was burning on
the high hill.
lie maue his sketch of her. It was a
feeble little sketch, yet like enough to
her, aud true enough to fill them both
with plcasnio and pride. She sat to
him morning after morning till he had
finished it. lie drew her just as sho
was, In lier common dress, wltli tiui naa.
ket by hi r tie'e and tho gray sculp
tured wall beside her, and ho made her
talk to hi t.i nil the time ho worked.
She h;id tried to begiu herself by sit
ting stiff and prim, with her eyes im
inoveabh aud her lips closed, but ho
had soon laughed her out of that.
" I shall never make anything of you
unless you begin to talk," he told her.
" But how can monsieur draw my
mouth if I talk ? " she added.
' 0, never miud that; I'll tell you
when I conic to your mouth, " he siid,
and by degrees he got her to talk, and
presently she talked so cheerluly and
heartily for by nature she was no lov
er of silence, but could chatter and
chirp like any bird that sho ot'teu al
together forgot that sho was sitting for
her picture, which was exactly what he
wanted her to do.
And to at last the little sketch was
fiuished, and they looked ut it, holding
it between them, with i.roud, bright,
happy eyes.
"Ah, if my mother could sco it," sho
said, wi:h a sigh uf siruple delight.
" Well, why shouldn't she see it '!" he
asked. " Let us take it to her togeth
er, Christiue. "
' Would monsieur wish it?" she said,
half timidly.
' I should like to see your mother,
aud she would like to see this, 1 am
sure ; aud then " he paused aud look,
ed at tho Kith picture tenderly. "Well,
you see, I don't thiuk I could exactly
give it to her, Christine, " bo said, "bo
causo I want so much to keep it myself;
but I will tell you what I will do if she
likes it I will mako a copy of it for
her.
0, mousieur is too good '" But tho
color flushed up iuto her face with pleua
urc. " I should like to make a copy, aud
you kuow it would bo unfair not to give
you ouo; so that' settled. Aud uow
will you take me home with you to see
your mother ? "
They had, before this, had more than
ono walk together. She knew the old
town well, aud on several evenings, af
ter the cathedral doors wero closed, they
had rumbled side by side for a little
while about the streets, searching out
the old houses that ho loved, or had I'm
geted youug and hopeful as they were,
to look in at bright shop windows. But
he uever yet hud gone borne with her.
She had talked about her mother to him
otten, but with iutuitive delicacy she
hid never even hinted at a wUh that ho
should go and see her in tho poor homo
where they lived.
Yet sho hud no false shame, and
when they set out on their walk togeth
er this evening sho merely said to him
ouoe, simply aud quietly, It is a poor
place, monsieur, " and theu without fur
k "L;y the took him to it.