The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-06-29

Caesars, which nothing should approach save what
Is joyful and glorious, poverty will creep and 1t is
happy privilege to be permitted to beckon it
away
Rise mynheer rise said the Emperor give
me truth, and fear nothing. value truth more
than kueeworship.'
He was obeyed.
And now, this ailluonce, this spendor' persist.
ed Joseph H.; this lavish masniiiccncc, when not
only my weathiest nobles but even myself am
impoverished by a long and expensive war-how
can you account for this?
Simply and satisfactorily, sire. have told
your majesty that | am the grand-nephew Of
Faust; but few are aware that before his death
he had discovered that mystery of mysteries the
art Of producing gold; a secret which he only di.
yulged. and then under the most solemn oaths Of
invohble silence, to his next Of kin, my father
who was neither topro6t by his knowledge until
he had attained the age Of sixty years nor to
communicate 1t, except upon his death-bed and
sti under the same restrictions, to his immediate
descendant. You see him before YOU, sire. Ny
father, thanks 10 a constant Use of that elixir Of
which your imperial majesty has partalien, lived
to the age Of seventy not only hale but even Wig
orous as IN his first manhood; and during the ten
years which were granted to him after he had un.
rgl1uk the mysterious scroll which taught him how
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And should you die before the allotted time
asked the Emperor eagerly, who would inherit
the secret
No one on this earth, said the young man al
most despondngly; for the scroll is written in
hleroglyphics difficult to deciphcr, that it re.
qulres years to comprehend them, learnt as they
must be, without the aid of written characters
and the task is rendered douhly onerous by the
fact that the lesson thus acquired ia complicated
by the introduction Of host of figures signs, and
sounds, which ultimately prove supererogatory
and are only invented 10 check the mpious curl.
osity Of those destined TO succeed TO the mysteri
Gus inheritance
And can you reconcile yourself to thus useless.
! ly mystiiying your son in your turnf asked Jos
! eph H., gloomily.
Sire was the steady but sad reply, Il have al
ready told your imperial majesty that | live only
IN, and for, my rister. | shall never press a child
Of my own against my heart. | viii inilict ne
such bitter misery upon another human being as
| | have myself borne,
Misery" echoed the Emperor incredulously--
misery. Are you not surrounded by every lux
ury 10y every splendor, and assured Of their pos
session, whatever may be the fate OF cities anl
of empiresf
Your majesty has been importuned To take my
life
True; but have protected it,
! And your successor might hc less lenicnt BE
eve me, sire, the gold is hardly earned which
must be bought by popular execration loud.voic
ed suspicion, and the constant perspective Of o.
scanoli'
| Yet 10 lose such a secret Do you not fee
that you owe something to the worldP
| Atheist though am deemed, sire feel chat
owe more to my own soul What can have il
common with world which hates and msjulge
me :
! H. at least have done you Justice
All, sire said the young man. as he bent down
until his lips came in contact with the impera
hand, 10 You owe more than life for You hay
reConced me with my kind; and, if dared
Dare anything said the Emperor, intereste,
even to facination by this STANCE adventure.
And | shall be forgiyenf
Frccly-fully.'
| Then, sire, and Gotlieb Faust lifted from tn,
lofty mantel Il piece of yellow metal which la,
served 10 secure some withercd blossoms that ha,
been spread out to dry beneath il. your impern
majesty spoke u while back OF being impOycrisl
cd by the war 1t is an unworthy offering, bu
humbly made
"By 81 Stephen, accept it as frankly as it i
rendered said Joseph H., with flashing ewes Il
will repleni-h my treasury brayely, and shall b.
well applied Then rising and drawing back th
curtain from an nnshutered window, We mus
| part now, he said, the day is dawning but yor
shall still further make me your deb;or-gve M
n mantle and a sword. Imust return to the pal
ace urecoCnzed And remember. not wor,
of this interview, rs YOU value your life SO,
! shall soon hear from me again
The young alchemist obeyed upon the instant
The emperor girted on his weapon, muitled him
| self in the cloak, extended his hand, which Got
tIieb revcrcntly pressed to his lips, and in 5 min
utes the sound of his retreatug footsteps was II,
| longer audible. Then and not ill then, Gottlel
| Faust withdrew from the gate with heavy sigh
! closed the uakcn doors behind him, and retire,
TO his chamber
! On the following day all was commoton in th,
| imperial palace and the state ante. chamber lk,
the Eii.dc Bd.G at Versailles, under Lous XIV
WAS crowded by throng of idle courtiers few
louuging lste,sly against the wide easements o
pennlg upon the Joseph Platz, apparently watch
ing Tor some anticipated event, others shedding
around them an enyenomed shower, OF that court
| ly small talk which is generally rs wicked Ms i
is witY,-thut flood of brilliant Cpgrams and roun
ded period which enguIis II reputation in rcpar
lcc, Vt SdCllhCts iHc lctlB- bl u liltiu 10 II tlC
torical flourish. Others again, more ambitions
and less vain, saunturcd near the door of the em
peror's reception room, keeping their eyes stead
iastly upon the usher On duty, and calculatin.
the amount of their present favor by the Length
of the period which elapsed before they were ad
mttcd to the presence.
| Never, perhaps. since the gorgeous Int friyo
lous court to which we have already alluded fill
ed the gardens and saloons of Versailles with ,
galaxy Of splcndor, has the palace of any Euro
pean sovereign afforded so brilliant n spcctacl,
as that of the Caesars. The blending of so many
national costumes all alike costly aud picturesqu,
among which that of the noble Hungarian guard
alike in form, but varying in color aud ornament
is cminently conspicuous renders the select circl,
of the cmpcrorS of Austria human KALEIDOSCOPE,
of which every successive move only tends to en-
hance the attraction; and thus it was on the NOR
ming Of which we write
Can it be true, my dear Marquis, asked tar
dy courtier, as he made his way from The gallery
toward mempcr of the government, that ou
gracious emperor has Mt length consented to ar
rest that rascally alchcmist, Gottlieb FaustF
Nothing can be more certain Count; and moro
over, he is already in the palace, awaiting III,
pleasure of his imperial majesty
What is his crime I asked u shperblymusta
chird Bohcmion noble, joining the group; i
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