Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-05-20
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not o ffction) will not deter our readers from Pc
rusins it. 1t pourtrAy', with great CORRECTNESS, the
unalteruble nature Of "wom ans love- and shows
how dangerous apd how pregnant with Affections
and distre'ses, are departures from virtue and mo-
rality. Man, the lord of creation, may wander
from the paths Of duty, and yet sustain his place in
society, but woman, if she step aside-is lost for
ever,
"And one false step forever damns her fame"
The fate ofthe unhappy heroine, Mademoiselle
GELIMERT, cannot fail to excite the sympathy
AMI commisseration Of the reader, whilst the cold
blooded villainy of MoRANBERr, will call forth
the excavations of the feeling heart. The untime-
ly end ofthe misguided and heart broken girl proves
that women sometimes "love not wisely, but too
WELL, - and that connexions not sanctioned by So
ciety and religion, are ever productive Of shame
and misery:
The President Of LOUIS XVITIs council, the
Duke dc ~RIcHELIEU, being a man of slender abb
lities, got about him some men of tried talent, such
as VI. MEUNIER, who had been Secretary to Ma
PoLEoN. But amongst these, the person whom |
shall call Nj. MoRANBERT, was not the least
remarkable. Between this gentleman and myself
a considerable degree ofintimacy, from a similarity
Of pursuits and frequent opportunities of meeting,
existed. He lived in the Rue du BAG, close to the
Minister'S hotel; my abode was in the Rue du
Varcnnes; and his mistress, Mademoiselle GELLI-
INERT, lodged in the Place du Corps Legs
latif. have no hesitation in naming her by her
right name; first, because she i. no more, and next,
because many traits in her character cannot but Sc
cure to her memory the admiration and regret Of
every generous and feeling mind.
"But your voice falters, as If you were going to
weep?' said the philosopher, VoLNEY, 10 whom |
was telling this anecdote.-"True think | yet
see those large, black and languishins eyes, and
hear that touching voice resounding in my ear and
troubling my heart. Charming, and unique crea-
ture. you are no more! Years have passed since
the grave has hid you from my sight, and yet the
recollection Of you still stirs my inmost soul."-'You
loved her then!'-"No-Oh. GE~LLIMERT-Oh!
MoRANB ERT! you were both prodigies-one of
woman's tenderness-the other Of mans ingrati-
tude. Mademoiselle GELLIMERT belonged to a
respectable family, which she quilted TO throw
herself into the arms Of MoRANBERT He had
nothing, and the little property she was entitled to
was sacrificed to supply the necessities and even
fantasies of MARANBERT. She regretted neither
| her dissipated fortune nor her ruined reputation
her lover was all the world to her.'-Thig Mon
ANBERT must have been a most seductive, irresist-
lille sort of persono"-'On the contrary, he was a
little, morose, %taciturn, and sarcastic minded man,
with a shrivelled countenance, a dark sallow COM
plexion, and a poor mcagre figure; in a word, down
right ugly, if Il MN can be called so, the expression
on whose countenance announced intellect and sa-
gacity, Such a being turned the head of this
charming girl.
The Duke de RICHELIEU having on his hands
the affairs of all Europe, which at that time were
treated of in Paris, and being unable to do any
thing himself but play with his huge monkey, threw
the whole weight of business upon the confidential
persons in his office. The health Of M. MORAN
BERT soon felt the effects ofthis incessant a%pplica-
ton. To render his task less laborious, Made
moiselle GELLIMERT learned two foreign Ian
yuages, and whilst her lover repOsed. she sat up the
| greater part of the night, making extracts from the
reports of French agents and spies at ST. Peters
burgh and several Of the German courts. But a
still more painful labour was that Of decypherins
the voluminous dispatches in CIPHER addressed to
the Duke de %RIcHELIEUb by the weak headed per-
sonages whom he had sent to all the capitals of
| Europe, with the title Of Ambassador or Minister
Plenipotentiary ofthe King Of France. These gen.
tleman, few Of whom were capable Of writing
a sensible lettey on their own private affairs, knew
not how to make a selection OF what was impor-
tant, from what they heard themselves or were in
formed Of by their agents at the Courts where
! they resided. They therefore wrote down every
thing no matter how trivial or Indifferent, which
came to their knowledge; and as they attached a
wonderful Importance to their communications
| they wrote them in the most secret cypher, which
was supposed to be known TO the Ambassador and
the Minister. The cypher, which was a chef-d
CURE of mathematical calculation, and was the in
vention of one Of the pupils Of the celebrated La
| place, was changed from time to time. When poor
| NIademoiselle had passed a whole night
in transcribing in French thirty or forty pages, she
| had then to make an abstract of tho contents in two
| or three. TIL s was by no mesns an easy task, as il
was indispensibly necessary to preserve the utmost
respect towards the noble friend of the Minister
| who wrote to him from St. Petersburgh or Vienna.
| She was therefore obliged to give an air of impor-
lance to what in itselfhad neither weight nor value,
for she dared not state simply that such or such a
| despatch contained only idle reports, or useless in
| telligence. Madeinoiselle GELLIMERT, to keep
ennui from taking possession of her lover, learned
first Italian singing masters. In n short time she
was enabled to repeat all the favorite airs of the
| Opera Bufa, of which MoRANBERr was a passion
ate admirer. And often has it happened that after
employing the whole night in translating Russian
and German letters, and transcribing cvphered des-
patches, she passed the greater part OF the next day
in an effort TO beguile the sombre humor of Mon
ANBERT, by singing Italian airs to him till her
voice failed her, and acute pains in the chest warn
ed her ofthe injury she was doing herself. In this
statement there is nothing exaggerated: DR.. G. l..
who attended her in sickness, and succored her
when in distress, is still alive to attest its truth. -
But had almost forgotten to mention one of her
first misfortunes-the persecution which she had to
suffer from her family, who were indignant at the
| publicity Of her attachment TO MoRANBERT. Her
relations, aided by the priests, pursued her from