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friends and advisers to arrange terms for.
separation. The only argument which ha.
the least dissuading weight with her wa
drawn from religion, and on this ground sh,
consented still to endure. 1t was Gil tn,
18th of August last that the duke andduch.
ess Quilted their estate of De Va4x to tax.
the family to Dieppe for the benefit of sea.
bathing-first, however, coming to Pari,
for a visit of two or three days. On arri.
wing, by the railroad, the duchess, carriage
took her, with the younger member of the
family, to their residence in the Rue St.
Honorc, willie the duke, with his TWO elder
daughters, drove Immediately to the board
ing-schooi where Mademoiselle de Lucy
resided, and made her a visit. On his re-
joining the duchess, a scene of violent al
tercation took place, Madame dc praslin
having been made aware of the visit, and
Immediately after, though it was early in
the evening, she retired to her apartment.
for tho night, overcome with fatigue and
excitement.
One of the French journals intimates that
proof has transpired that, before twelve of
that fatal night, the duke sought the
chamber Of his wife, and with the sacred
embrace of affe ction, feigned a wish for re-
Cancellation, which was mutely responded
to, and adds, that, probably with the peace
of hope and forgiveness in her heart, she
fell in:o a profound slumber. At four o.
clock the duke, who had returned to his
own room, crossed again the corridor which
separated his apartments from his wifs's.-
He had with him a cord with a slip-noosc-
his intention evidently having been t. stran-
gle her, and make it appear that she had
her own life. The drawing of the
cord around her throat aroused her with q
sudden CONFUSION, however, and as the
was a small man, it became strue-
glc Of doubtful termination. The duke had
armed himself besids with a poignard and a
and the body of the duchess was
stabbed in every part, her blood complete
y saturating the carpet of her chamber
Her principal efforts seem to have been
10 reach the bell, a pull upon which would
bring her seIvent. The bloody marks of
her hands, as she reached towards it in the
were found upon the walls in sew
eral places. She succeeded at last in ring
ing the bell, and Immediately after was
knocked down and stunned with the handle
IF a pistol. She fell with her head upon
The side of a low divan, and so lay when she
was found.
The door by which the servant must en-
.er was on the opposite side from that lead
.ng TO the dukes chamber and was locked
On the inside when she answered to the
summons. Listening a moment she heard
| groan, ard Immediately calling up one of
If the men servants, they burst open the
ioor. Lighting the candles on the mantle
hey first saw that the furniture was over
brown, and the next instant their Dyes fell
lpon the bloody and PROSTATE person of the
lying duchess. She was speechless, but
carce alive, and died in a few minutes al
er.
The duke was found dressed, when the
nanrushed to his room with the %intelli-
,ence: he followed him back, with an excla-
nation at the carelessness of the servants in
the doors in the rear open, seized
he body of the duchess and lifted it in his
rms to bear it to a sofa. !
The police we're called in, Monsieur AL
ard, the chief, being almost instantly
to the spot. Hasty examinations
we're made, doors and windows looked to-,
ervants questioned-but suddenly the Of
Ger turned to the duke, and ordered him
0 take off his gloves. He obeyed, pale
no trembling, and showed fingers torn,
and bitten through with teeth. He
vas then ordered to strip himself, and his
pody was found scratched and bruised
There was no longer any doubt Of his be-
ne the murderer. As tito leave ne chance
or a doubt, the arms of Choiseul, which
we're craven on the stock of his pistol,