The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-12-30

vexed their simple minded mother more than all the
rest sometimes told stories of one another. Still
they were good children, children go and when
the black screen was superseded by punshmentsa
little more severe, did credit to their training.
They were not permitted to play in the street, or TO
20 to or from school Alone or remain there after
school hours Their father took pains with their
department, corrE$1d false grammar, and recon-
mended the cultivate SIoTblts more refined than
people in his humble ath6. 8 respectable position
deem necessary. AS their ,trosperity increased,
Marie was surprised to observe her husband devote
all his spare time to reading, and not only picture
cleaning and repairing, but painting, in which he
was such an adept, that he was employed to paint
several signs
I" How did you learn so much ?" she said one
day. Did your father teach you %
"No | went to school,"
Then he was not SO very poor?
He was very poor, but he lived in hopes that
might one day possess fortune"
." 1t would seem If he had foreknowledge Of
what my little statue contained?"
"NO, my love; he looked TO it from another
source for a title without a fortune is misfor-
tune"
" title! Nay, row you are playing with my
''@PNioityi" q N X
dsS---, and for aught know may be the posses
s0 o that name at this moment the legal heir to his
estate. Mytather, ruined by his extraVagan and
grleve to add, by his crimes, had caused himself to
be dIsowned by all his relations He fed with me
10 Paris, where he soon after died leaving me
nothing but his seal and his papers, | wrote to
my uncle for assistance; but although being then
quite boy, and incapable Of having personally
wen offence, he refused it in the most cruel man.
ner; and l was left to my own resources at time
when my name and education were rather a him
dtance than help and | found no opening for en-
terins into any employment suited to my birth
My uncle had then two fine, healthy, handsome
boys; the youngest IS dead and the eldest | heard
accidentally, IN such state of health that re-
covery is not looked for by the most sanguine of
his friends. ! never breathed word OF all this to
you, because never expected to survive INV cousin
and resolved to make an independent position for
myself sooner later. Do you remember the
other day an old gentleman stopping and asking
some question about the coat of arms | was paint
ing,Ty ,--,,,,
those arms, but was unable to inform him.
Well, my dear, he came again this morning to
repeat the question to myself and am now going
to satisfy him, when | expect to bring you some
news"
Marie was in dream. Unlike gardeners
daughters Of the present day, she had read novels
or romanCes, and 1t appeared to her as impossible
that such an event should happen as that the cap
on her head Should turn into crown. II did hap
pen, however. The old gentlewau, distant rela-
uon and intimate friend of Augusc, had come to
farls, at his dying request to euGeavor TO find out
'I'S "SP"e" aLI t'ei anu l"e proofs angHSte pro-
duced were so plain, that he found no difficulty in
persuad,ng NJ B-de that he was the person he
represented himself 10 be. He very soon went II
Belgium, took legal possession OF all his rights,
and returned to hail the gentle and long suffering
Marie as Fcomtesse de-, and conduct her and
the children to handsome apartments in the
Rue, dressed IN habments suitable to her
present station, and looking as adyIike as if she
ad been born to fill it. She lived long and hap
PLY, and continued the same pure, Undetermined
being she had ever been, whether blooming among
The flowers at BouIoiuvers, or piuing for want in
garret in the Faubourg St Antoine Two oil
her daughters are alive now. Her son, after sue
ceedlng to his father, died without children of the
cholera, in 1882 and the son of his eldest sister
has taken up the title, under a different name,
these matters not being very strictly looked after IN
France.