. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. n had been cure of them T little village which slept within the valley and upon the banks of aslender stream of water called the Li:iotte. . He loved his little town, his little church, his little rectory. Here he wasalone and undisturbed, doing everything himself, always on the road, whetherin sunshine or in storm, in fair weather or in foul. His body had becomeinured to fatigue, but his heart always remained tender and kind. The cure lived in the little rectory, which was only separated from thechurch by the cemetery. Whenever he climbe
. Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama. n had been cure of them T little village which slept within the valley and upon the banks of aslender stream of water called the Li:iotte. . He loved his little town, his little church, his little rectory. Here he wasalone and undisturbed, doing everything himself, always on the road, whetherin sunshine or in storm, in fair weather or in foul. His body had becomeinured to fatigue, but his heart always remained tender and kind. The cure lived in the little rectory, which was only separated from thechurch by the cemetery. Whenever he climbed the ladder to nail up his fruit-trees against the wall, he could look down upon the graves of those overwhom he had uttered a final prayer, and Crinkled the first handful ofearth; and, while performing the task of gardener, he would breathe a peti-tion for the welfare of those souls whose future caused him anxiety, and whomight still be in purgatory. His was a simple faith. Ludovic Halevys Abbe Constantin (translated by E. H. Hainan). vi ^W^ VI CONSTANCE 255 CONSTANTIA came her husband.—S. Knowles, TheLove Chase (1837). Constance., daughter of Bertulphe, pro-vost of Bruges, and bride of Bouchard, aknight of Flanders. She had beauty toshame young loves most fervent dream,virtue to form a saint, with just enoughof earth to keep her woman, By anabsurd law of Charles the Good, earlof Flanders, made in 1127, this younglady, brought up in the lap of luxury,was reduced to serfdom, because hergrandfather was a serf; her aristocratichusband was also a serf because hemarried her (a serf). She went mad atthe reverse of fortune, and died.—, The Provost of Bruges (1836). Constance Varley. American girl travel-ing in the East with friends, and bearingwith her everywhere the memory of aman she has loved for years in meets him at Damascus and after somedays of pleasant companionship, he re-solves to offer his hand to her. The wordsare upon his tongue, when an unf
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