The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1851-02-06

vation of habits more refined than peo.
pie in his humble although respectable
position deem necessary. As their
prosperity increased, Marie was sur
prlsed to observe her husband devote
all his spare time to reading, and not
onl y picture cleaning and repairing, but
painting, in which he was such an
adept, that he was employed to paint
several signs.
g How did you learn SO much?o she
said one day. "Did your father teach
you !'
"No; went to school Then he was
very poor, but he lived in hopes that
might one day possess fortune.p
9 1t would seem as if he had fore
knowledge of what my little statue
containedw
=" No my love he looked TO it from
anothe! source; for title without
fortune IL misfortune.
g Atitle! Nay, now you are playing
with my simplicity"
''No, Marie; am the nephew of the
Flcomte de, and for aught know,
may be the possessor of that name at
this moment-the legal heir to his es-
tate. My father, ruined by his extrava-
gance, and, grieve to add, by his
crimes, had caused himself to be dis
owned by all his relations. He fed
with me to 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 given him offence, he re-
fused 1t In the most cruel manner: and
l was left to my own resources at
time when my name and education
were rather hindrance than a help
and | found no opening for entering in
TO 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 a recovery
is not looked for by the most sanguine |
OF his friends. never breathed word |
Of all this to you, because | never ex-
pected to survive my cousin, and re-
solved to make an independent position
sor myself sooner or later. Do you re-
member the other day an old gentle
man stopping and asking some ques-
ions about the coat of arms | was
painting 2"
- Yes: he asked who had employed
Tou to paint those arms, but was una
Die to inform him."
"Well, my dear, he came again this
morning to repeat the question to my
elf, and | am now going to satisfy
lim, when | expectto bring you some
lewsD
Marie was in a dream. Unlike gar
leners' dapahterS of the present day.
he had read no nosols or romances
md ii appeared to her as inlpossibIe
hat such an event should happen az
hat the cap on her head should turn
nto crown. 1t did happen however.
The old gentleman. a distant relation
ind 1utialate friend ur nuguste, mad
come to Paris, at his dying request, to
,ndeavor to find out his nephew and
leir; and the proofs Auguste produced
we're so plain that he found no difficulty
n persnding M. B-de that he was
he person he represented himself to {
,e. He very soon went 10 Belgium ,,
ook legal possession of his rights and
eturned TO hail the gentle and long !
Marie as Vicomtesse de-,
nd conduct her and the children to
handsome apartment in the Rue,
ressed in habiliments Suitable to her .
resent station, and looking as lady-like
S if she had been born to fill it. She
wed long and happily, and continued 9
he same pure, humble minded being ]
he had ever been, whether blooming :
mong the flowers at Bouloinvilliers, or :
lining for want in a garret in the
'aubourg St. Antoine Two of her G
aughters are alive now. Her son, af- e
er succeeding to his father; died, With I
ut children, of the cholera, in 1892 /.
nd the son of his eldest sister has
lken up the title, under a different d
anne, these matters not being very !
trictly looked after in France.