New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-01

NUMBER 25S.
mp o long avenue Of lines in full beauty. and On
| halting MT the door Of vast mansion. was n,
yited by the lady to dismount and take refresh
ment. He had been in a reverie for the last
half hour, was plunged FIVE hundred fathon,
deep in delightful improbsbiIities, and was
4 thinking at the moment how he should preface
his suit for the fairest hand in the world, by
frankly confessing that he was not worth d rir.
dollar-and nfter this happy Recommendation
to the lady's favor, Offering her fhe captivating
chance Of living with him, unknowing and un-
known, in the wiles OF Prussia or the steppes o1
Poland, keeping sheep, or teaching village boys,
OF dressing vines, or doing any thing or NOTHING
to the end of an existence in which poverty
obscurity and exile were to be all forgotten IN
that grand sweetener, love -
| But the sight of the palace at whose marble
| threshold he now alighted, or rather awoke, gave
| q new turn, If not violent shock, to aft hi:
| meditations. 1ne the pompous coat Of -arnis
carved by the chisel OF some family sculptor, a
hundred or thousand yearssgo to the dust
he saw terrible impediment to his project oi
the cottage. Haif-a dozen grooms and Wallets
in green -and-gold habilirfsnts, which might
| have moved the envy of royal smaster of the
falcons, seemed to him what the giants of old
times, and troubadour tales, appeared to the ad.
venturous knights who tilted for The love Of the
imprisoned Lady Adelndas and Corxainflas. But
1t was when he followed wave of the fair own
erss hand, and advanced, with the silence Of an
indian slave, into an apartment Of all hut regal
luxury, and sat down with the implicitness Of I,
French automaton-for every thing else IN
France has q will of its own-to table covered
with the elegant profusion of dejeuner worthy
of the chief cook Of a Partisan banker that lie
felt the misery of his false position BY some
fatality, which however happens to lovers at first
sight every day Of the calendar, it had never
occurred to him to ask the lady's name Her
beauty had absorbed his inquisitive faculties SO
suddenly, that it had not given him time to ask
q single question of the kind
1t was now noon, and he was not conscious
that it was not midnight. There is no account
ing for what we do in delirium and he would
not have sworn that lie had spoken syllable,
or even drawn breath since sunrise. But the
lady certainly did not follow his example.
Whether she thought him one of the handsom-
est personages whom she had seen for some time
or not; or whether she was now and then in
clined to wish that the interview silent as it was
should not be hurried over too rapidly or whe-
ther the quick glow that sometimes succeeded
the delicate paleness of cheek, which Phidias
might have lmodeied in marble, gave any signs
minds eye--it is certain that she exhibited her
terrestrial nature to the extent of touching the
exquisite yiands set before her, and even Of re-
commending them to the abstract of man who
played the statue at her table. Still, he slipped
and tasted, all unconscious, while he gazed on
those twin stars that sparkled in his horizon
But even deieuneYs cannot be made to last for
ever. The Hulans were heard caracoline their
steeds on the esplanade in front Of the palace
and a valet. embroidered to the neck, announced
that. the captains charger was Fready.', If
he had come to tell the captain that he was to
be shot within the next FIVE minutes on the
Grand Parade in Berlin, his intelligence could
not have been received with greater surprise. It
fell on his ear like the discharge Of a bomb.
The true way to escape his embarrassment
would have been to state the whole case fully.
and at once; get up, thank his lovely entertainer
for her hospitality-wi the Hulans hanged
devote all courts-martial to the lower regions
take his leave for Spandau-and implore her
permission, g if he was not shot, to make love
to her on the first opportunity But the words
6 stuck in his throat" He rose, made an at
tempt at speech, which satisfied him perfectly
that Nature had not intended him for IN orator ;
received some Of the graceful acknowledgements
in return that could proceed from the rosy lips
of grace and beauty. stood stock still. probabiv
waiting for more Acknowledgements; and might
have stood there until now, but for rather
| abrupt opening Of the door, and the entrance of
one OF the Hulans into the room. The man had
become eager to make way towards his journey S
end, for the double purpose of being out of the
clutches of the enemy, and of being in the beer
shops of Berlin. Every man has his motive, if
we could find it out; and the Hulan unquestion-
ably had as good right as a million to cover
his panic with the public cause, and to reconcile
his love of beer with q sense Of his duty.
But this entre was worth whole volume Of
eloquence. The unlucky lieutenant was saved
from all the embarras of detailing his offence
his arrest, the certain loss of his commission,
and the probable loss of his liberty and love to-
gether. The kick with which the Hulan's boot
threw open the door was expressive enough, but
his Sclayonic candor settled the whole difficulty
at once. He summoned sc his prisoner % to march
without loss of time. The gallant officer would
have gladly smitten him to the earth; but the
fair lady now claimed all his attention. The
light had broke in rather too suddenly upon her
vision; and her excessive paleness, and the tot
tering step with which she reached a sofa
covered with thousand tapestried flowers and
glttering with ormolu, showed that she felt the
full effect OF unwecome surprise prisoner
in alrest-going to Spandau u"-were the few
words, which a tongue, five minutes before elo-
quent with all the prettiest forms of human
speech, could contriye to utter The lieutenant
had no explanation to offer, but stood gazing at
the sofa and its fair burthen. The Hulan, not
at all in love- and therefore in possession of his
senses, took up a flask of champagne, and hay
ing first tried its merits by swallowing bum
per at the side-board, presented glass to the
lady. But she had by this time recovered all
but her astonishment, and her quick wit had
found out the remedy for the young soldiers i'll
luck. 'sArrestp' said she, in spirit, half in
quiry and half Indignation, which brought the
color in tenfold ivcliness to her cheek-ss It is
impossible. 1t must not be- Sir, you have rem
dered me services too important this day to al
low of this offence to your feelings, and I will
say to justice. You must permit me to send off
a courier Immediately to my father, the Count
Won Koller.''
Thename shot like twelve FOUNDER into Stein
forth's heart. That the very man with the
frowning face, who had caused his being con-
signed to durance vile, should be the father of all
the exquisite compound Of scnsibility softness,
taper fingers, and rosy lips before him, was next
to impossible, Yet as he had her word for it
that it was true, what was to be done? What
mischief of blacker dye could fate invent for him !
He might have preferred his suitto a royal tiger
with as much hope as to the imperious count
Still set there might be twenty of the same name y
But no, the ivory hand of the lady accidentally
pointed at that moment to picture over the
mantel-piece, and there was the General him
self irth full, q