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PART 11. -
chapter in. (Continued.)
They bad finished with the arching of
the ceiling. The walls they proposed to
leave plain, to cover them over
with a bright brown color. The delicate
pillars and the quaintly-moulded orna
ments were to be distinguished from them
by a dark shade. Bat as in each things
one thing ever leads on to another, they
determined at least on having festoons of
flowers and fro it, which should as it were
uhite together heaven and earth. Here
Ottilie was in her element The gardens
provided the,most perfect patterns; and
although the wreaths were as rich as they
coola make them, it was all finished soon
er than they had supposed possible.
It was still looking rough and disorder*
ly. The scaffolding poles bad been run
together, the planks thrown on the top
of the other; the uneven pavement was
yet more disfigured by the particolored
stains of the paint which had been spilt
over it.
The Architect begged that the ladies
would give him a week to bimself, and
and daring that time would not enter the
chapel; at the end of it, one fine evening,
he cam** to them, and begged them both
to go and see it. He Hid not wish to ac
company them, be said, and at once took
bis leave.
“Whatever surprise be may have de
signed for ns,” said Charlotte, as soon as
he was gone, “I cannot myself just now
go down there. You can go by yourself,
and tell me all about it. 3to doubt be
has been doing something which we shall
like, I enjoy it first in your descrip
tion, and afterwards it will be the more
charming in the reality
Oltilie, who knew wtH that in many
cases Charlotte took care to avoid every
thing which cod Id produce emotion, and
particularly disliked to be surprised,
set off down the walk by herself, and
looked round involuntarily for the Arch
itect, who, however, was nowhere to be
seen, and mast have concealed himself
somewhere. She walked into the church,
which she found open. This had been
finished before; it had been cleaned up,
and service had b6en performed it it. She
went on to the chapel door.; its heavy
mass, all overlaid with iron, yielded easi
ly to her touch, and she found an unex
pected sight in a familiar spot.
A solemn beautiful light streamed in
through the one tall window. It was fill
cd with stained glass, gracefully pat to
gether. The entire chapel bad thus re
ceived a strange tone, and a peculiar ge
nius was thrown over it. The beauty of
the vaulted ceiling and the walls was set
off by the elegance of the pavement,
which was composed of peculiarly shaped
tiles, fastened together with gypsum, and
forming exquisite patterns ah they lay.
This and the adored glass for the win
dows the Architect bad prepared without
their knowledge, and a short time was
sufficient to b»ve it pat in its place.
Seats had been provi led as well.
Among the relics of the old church some
finely carved chancefchairs had been dis
covered, which now were standing abont
at convenient places along the walls.
The parts which she knew so well now
meeting her as an unfamiliar whole, de*
lighted Otlilie. She stood still, walked
up and down, looked and looked again;
at last she seated herself in one of the
chairs, and it seemed, as she gazed up and
down, as if she was, and yet was not —as
if she felt and did not feel—as if all this
wopld vanish Irom before her, and she
would vanish from herself; and it was on
ly when the sun left the window, on
which before it had been shining full,
that she awoke to possession of herself,
and hastened hick to the castle
She did not hid,e from herself the
strange epoch at which this surprise had
occurred to her. It was the evening of Ed
ward’s birthday. Very differently she had
hoped to keeph- How was not esfejylhing
to be dressed out\fur this festival ?and
now all the splendor of the autumn flow
ers remained ungalhered. Those sunflow
ers still turned their faces to the sky;
those asters sull looked on with quiet,
modest eye; and whatever of them all had
been wound into wreathe had served'as
patterns for the decorating a spot which,
if it were not to remain a mere artist’s
fancy, was only adapted as a general mau
soleum.
And then she had to remember the im
pctuous eagerness with which Edward
had kept her birth-day feast. She thought
of the newly erected lodge, under the
roof ot which they had promised them
selves so much enj )ymerit. The fire
works flashed and hissed again before her
eyes and ears; the more lonely she was,
the more keenly her imagination brought
it all before her. But she fell heVself on
ly the more alone. She no longer leant
upon bis arm, and she had no hope ever
any more to rest bersth upon it.
FROM OTTILIE’s DIARY.
‘‘l&have been struck with an observa
tion of the young architect.
* “In the case of the creative artist, as in
that of the artisan, it is clear that man is
least permitted to appropriate to himself
wbat'is most entirely hts own. His works
forsake him as the birds forsake the nest
in whic . they were batched.
“The fate of the Architect is the strang
est of al in this w .y. How often he ex-
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pends his whole sohl, his whole heart and
p&B£ion, to produce bu'ldlngs into which
he himself may never enter. The balls
of kings owe their magnificence to him;
bat he has no enjoyment of them in their
splendor. In the temple he draws a par
lion line betweeiT^himself and the Holy
of fioiies; he may never more eet bis foot
upon the steps which he hid: laid down
for the heart-thrilling ceremonial; as the
goldsmith may only adore from afar off
the monstranc4 whose enamel and. whom
jewels he has himself set together. The
builder surrenders to the rich m*n, wflh
the key of hi 3 palace, all pleasure and all
right there, and never shares with him
in the enjoyment of it. And mast not Art
in (bis way, step by step, draw off from
the artist, when the work, like a child
who is provided for, has no more to fall
back upon its father? And what a power
there mnst be in art itself, for Us own
self-advancing, when it has been obliged
to shape itself almost solely out of what
was open to all, only out of what wasthe
property of every one, and therefore also.
of the artist!”
“There is a conception among old ns*
lions which is awful, and may almost
seem terrible. They pictured their fore
fathers to themselves sitting round on
thrones, in enormous caverns, in silent
con verse; when a new comer entered, if
be were worthy enough, they rose up and
inclined their heads to welcome him.
Yesterday, as I was sitting in the chape 1 ,
and other carved chairs stood round like
that in which I was, the thought of this
came over me with a soft, pleasant feel*
ing. Why cannot you stay sitting here ?
I say to myself; stay here sitting meditat
ing with yourself long, long, long, till at
last your friends come, and yon rise np to
them, and with a gentle inclination direct
them to their places. The colored win
dow panes convert the day into a sol
emn twilight; and someone shmid set np
for ns an ever-burning lamp, that the
night might not be otter darkness.”
"We may imagine ourselves in what
what situation we pieaae, we always con
ceive ourselves as seeing. ‘ I believe men
only dream that they may not cease to
see. Some day, perhaps, the inner light
will come out from within us, and we
shall not any more another.
The year dies away, thr wind sweeps
over the stubble, and there is nothing
left to stir under itl touch. But the red
berries on yonder, tall tree seem as if
they wouli remind us of brighter things;
and the stroke of the thrasher’s flail
awaks the thought bow much of nourish*
ment and life lies buried in the sickled
ear.”
CHAPTER IV.
How strangely, after all this, with the
sense so vividly impressed on her of mu
tability and perisbableness, must Ottilie
have been affected by the news which
could not any longer be kept concealed
from her, that Edward bad exposed him
self to the uncertain chances of war! Un*
happily, none of the observations which
she bad occasion to.make upon it escaped
her. But it well for us that man can on
ly endure a certain degree of unhappi
ness; what is beyond that, either annihi
lates him, or passes by him, and leaves
him apatbelic. There are situations in
which hope and fear run together, in
which they mutually destroy one anoth
er, and lose themselves in a dull indiffer
ence. If it were not so how could we,
bear to know of those who are most dear
to us being in hourly peril, and yet go on
as usual with our ordinary everyday life?
It was therefore as if some good genius
was caring for Ottilie, that, all at, once,
this stillness, in which she seemed to be
sinking fmm loneliness and want of oc
cupation, was suddenly invaded by a
wild army, which, while it gave her ex
ternally abundance of employment, and
so took her out of herself, at the same
time awoke in her the consciousness of
her own power.
Cbatlntte’s daughter, Lnctana, had
scarcely left the school and gone out into
the great world; scarcely had she found
herself at her aunt’s house in ibc midst
of a large society, than her anxiety to
please produced its effect in really pleas
ing; and a young, very Wealthy man,
soon experienced a passionate desire to
make her his own. His Urge property
gave him a tight to hive the best of eve
rything for bis use, and nothing seemed
to be wanting to him except a perfect
wife, for whom, as for the rest of his good,
f .rtune, be should be the envy of the
world.
This incident in her family had been
for some time occupying Charlotte, -It
had engaged all her attention, and taken
up her whole correspondence, except so
far as this was directed to the obtaining
news of Edward; so that latterly Oftilie
bad been left more than was usual to her
self. She knew, indeed, of an intended
visit from Lncima. She bad been mak
ing various changes and arrangements in
the boose in preparation for it; bnt she
had no notion that it was so near. Let
ters, she supposed, would first have to
pass, seltipgfthe dime; and then a final
fixing, svhen the storm broke suddenly
! over and over herself.
TO BE CONTINUED.
“What is your secret?” asked a lady of
Turner, the distinguished painter He
replied, “I have no secret, madam, bnt
hard work,”
The surest way to get on in lif is to
grow old*
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