Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1843-04-18

utHsc u ClOuu ut ever.
Ia vain was the British ambassador appealed
10 more than once by mothers with marragcnble
daughters and iashionabc spondlhrits, who were
anxious TO ascertain whether they could force their
acquaintance upon him, and make him their ban
ker through the MEDIUM Of hazard and rouge ct
NOR, without losing caste His Excelency knew
nothing Of him and could not recognize an En-
gsh subject who had not even left his name nj
the embassy. And thus months rolled by and
the curious were rs mysthe1 as ever, save tina, it
transplred through the servants Of the stranger
tina, he had arrived in Paris direct from Venice f;
but tins was all that even his domestics though,
f, 10 communicate Meanwhile nothing could be
more regular simple than the habits of the two
handsome foreigners. They were constantly in
their box at the theatres, riding or driving in the
Bots dc Boulogne, saunierng through the woods
Of Meudon or wandering amid the stately magnf
icencc Of Versailles; nor was the gentleman ever
seen without his beautiful companion, they were
| as inseparable substance aud shadow; and all
the ojiiades which were lavishly bestowed upon
each Of them by some Of the brightest eyes in
all Paris were fairly thrown away upon both Of
them
Things were in this state when the old Marquis
dc St C arrived in Paris from his chateau
in the Lower Alps and as the rieur bon homme,
for thus some Of his associates thought proper to
call hun. had been regularly seen in the capital
every spring for the last fifty years, his advent on
the present occasion would scarcely have elected
| a remark, had he not been accompanied by his
bride, fair young creature Of sixteen, who had
exchanged the sccusion of a convent for the arms
| of bridegroom of seventy nine, at the command
| of her father 1t was her first appearance in the
| metropolis she had never been heard of until she
blazed in the eyes of the Parsians at the Opera,
| In el, 1os "A opI
seqncntly not wonderful that on the morrow the
| 'loi'I It C was bcsieged to such an
extent that the old Faubourg St German appear
ed suddenly to have thrown off century of time,
and once more TO have become the qrarfier par
excellence, Of the changelul and capricious CAPT
tai.
| Nor was the admiration which had been elici-
ted by her beauty at all diminished in the eyes OF
T,he arstocrac societies ofthe old Marquis, when
they learned that the fair young creature who now
bore his name far from beng the clever little ad-
rentariere whom each expected to find her, was
in reality, the only child of Count V, who
had been banished many years previously for
some alleged disrcspect to royalty and who,
when he was afterwards pardoned, and recalled,
refused TO return to the scene of his blighed am
bition preferring the tranquil and certain enjoy.
nen,s OF his own secluded estate, to the feversh
and ftful existence whence he had been formerly
| cast out
| young noble. beautiful, and ricn such they
discovered wa. the wife of the withered. dccrped,
ioting old Marquis de St C. What a de-
ligh,ful page had been suddenly opened to the ar
stocrac desGres Of Paris More than one bel
esprit voted an address of thanks to the polite hus
band for the noble selfsacrfce which he had
shown in bringing his fair wife TO Paris while
the more designing and the more speculative
| l l., IL r. 4 r
innocent being to whom the very thought of vice
was unknown
Pure and Iighti,earted as in her first childhood
the beautiful Marchoncss received all the homage
by which she was Immediately surrounded with.
out fear or suspicion of evil and many court
" whisper which would have breathed pollution
into more worldly and accustomed ear, fell
harmless upon hers, and was rewarded with a
smile.
Laura had never loved, nor guessed she it is
every woman's destiny TO do so during her life
She had known the Marquis from her infancy
she bad smiled upon him from her cradle, sported
on his knee ia her girlhood made him the conf
I-dant Of all her Joys and SORROWS for he was her
fathers only intimate associate, and his nature was
less stern than that of her own parent and thus
her bon pciit papa, as she was accustomed to cal
him was always the medium which she obtained
was summoned TO the convent parlor by the wid
owed Count and desired to prepare herself to be
come the wife of his friend within month heI
only feeling was one of delight that she should SC
soon and so Unexpectedly be freed from conyenu
al restraint, and left at liberty to coax and be spoil
ed by her bou pstit papa, without even the dread
Of her fathers frown, to damp her quiet enjoy
ment.
: Such was the mood in which, a month after
her marriage, the fair young Marchoness found
herself stepped to the very lips IN the gayetIcs o.
the metropolis; and If Laura knew nothing o
evil the Marquis, on his side, appeared totally Il
have forgotten lis existence and 10 look upon hi'
p wife as the handsome romping girl. whose viii
hal always been his law; without remembering
p that he chil had grown into a beautiful anl "a
b dian; woman, and that 10 Paris the husband o
q such BRIDE could i'll dispense with dagon il
has garden Of Hesperides
: l. was a crowded night a,the Theatre Francois
4 Nile Mas, then ia The zenith OF her fame mad'
D her nrsl appearance as the heroine oil drains
; which hal been written expressly 10 display he
. admirable talent. and Of which report spoke nigh
II on the authority Of the gifted a'ilse herself
Is Every box was filled ami the PIT rescmblrd
% 50 Of human baioSs heaying los.I.ng, ssl pres
! sag one over the olher, un,il The whole SPACE -
8 ll. % saIJc.ion bot even on that occasion Their
= sere 1870 groups n the house which almas. ltgl
led the admiration Of The audience with the hero