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No. 3.
A Visit to a German gymnasium.
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"WIibii I Bleep I drenni, when I wnke, I'm weary,
Heat I can ut "nno for thinking o' my dcnrlo."
Ami us to HiUtic, she had told Elsie that
she could live just us well without John
Howard, and that she could live just as
serenely happy as though nothing had
happened ect., cct., and ol' course we have
no riglit to doubt her veracity, though we
did lind marked in her "Lady of The
Lake," and written on the fly-leaf ol some
other favorite work, this rather talc-telling
passage:
" Bill he who stem a strewn with sand,
And Tetter flame with flaxen band,
lint yet a linrder tank to prove,
Hy Arm resolve to conquer love."
But we pass on in our narrative to more
important matters.
At the end of the two months, Howard
graduated, getting all the honors which
he had sought, and came home. Again
on Sunday morning he sat with his moth
er in a front pew, while his father, with
more than his usual eloquence, preached
from the pulpit. Hattie Gleeson, as of
old, sang in the choir. Now I suppose
our readers are expecting that some hid
den plot being revealed at this juncture,
or some catastrophe happening, there will
in some strange way be brought about an
understanding and reconciliation between
these two unfortunatr. individuals. But
no such thing takes place, as, indeed, you
will And to be. generally the case in the
lives and quarrels of common-place lov
crs. John somehow found it quite im
possible to keep from stealing an occa
sional glance towards Miss Gleeson, and
Haltic in turn found it impossible to keep
from glancing toward John now and then.
So that, while each affected to assume an
air of uttter nonchalance, each found it
quite impossible to look towards the other
without having their eyes meet. And
there was something, too, in these optical
collisions, that would make them both
lower their glances, hitch around a little
uneasily, and, on the whole, feel very
much like two fools.
The sermon came to a close, thedoxolo
gy was sung, the benediction pronounced,
and people bogan to 111c out of the church.
Miss Gleeson resolved that she would walk
boldly down the aisle, and turn her eyes
neither to the right side nor to the left.
She shut her teeth tightly together, and
kept her resolution until she came oppo
site the seat where John Howard had
been sitting, and where he was now stand
ing, leisurely twirling his hat around his
thumb, when this imperturbable gentle
man stepped out into the aisle, offered his
hand in a very mechanical, matter-of.
course sort of way, and said, " How do
you do?" His brisk, business-like man
n er was too much for Iluttie's consistency.
She shook hands, smiled in spite of all
her efforts to refrain from so doing, and
very soon this j'oung gentleman and lady
were passing out of the church together,
and chatting jocosely over tilings past,
present and to be. John's grave oiFence,
which had been the cause of the rupture,
was either pardoned, forgotten, or never
mentioned, we know not which; and two
years later, when he had been licensed to
preach, and was stationed on a circuit in
the southern part of the state, Hattie went
with him, lest he, being away from her
long, should be at some sort of mischief
that might be the cause of another schism-
Sylvester.
A VISIT TO A GERMAN
GYMNASIUM.
It is one of the simplest tasks in the
world to obtain an exact and comprehen
sive knowledge of the Geiman system of
public instruction. This is true partly,
because the utmost liberality is shown
to the stranger who wishes to inform him
self by actual observation; but chiefly
because it is a system in the true sense of
the word. On the other hand, the foreign,
er who desires to gain a clear idea of
American education, has a formidable
and perplexing task before him. Not on
ly does he find each state of the Un
ion possessed of its own system of public
