Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-05-13
A ROMANTIC TALE.

eiOhou eAAas SOt llic particulars OI q ulOSJ To-
mantle and interesting history lately; and
only now found leisure to write them down
for you.
When in public with the Marchioness of
s., had seen her frequently address very
pleasing, fine young woman, whose name and
rank knew, but nothing more; and she said
she wished | should be better acquainted with
her before she told me her history She was
reserved, but had a mild sort of melancholy
in her manner, that attracted me very much !;
and you shall now learn the cause. am not
at liberty to give her full name, so you must
be satisfied with her name being called Ro-
sale, after her saint
She was the daughter of one of the first
houses in this country, and brought into the
world with every advantage been
educated at home and under very amiable
mother, who, unfortunately, died when she
was only fifteen.
Her father had selected youth for her
partner in life every way worthy of her; and,
what seldom happens, the young people were
allowed to form an attachment before mar
riage, by a considerable degree of intimacy
The young Counts mother was high, VIC
lent character, but had not openly opposed
this; however, she conducted herself in
manner that showed little partiality to her
future daughter. All, however, went on till
a few days before the marriage. Great and
splendid were the preparations, and future
happiness appeared within their reach. The
young people as usual were separated for the
last two days. One hardly dare glance at the
feelings with which they parted, to meet
again in the happiest union-loye and hope
binding them to all future chances against
the completion of their happiness.
The evening before the marriage day, Count
P's. mother came to his house. newly prepa-
red for his bride, and said it had been resell
we'd the marriage should take place on that
night, privately, to spare his lovely Rosalie's
feelings, as she sflrunk from the public So
lemnity; and that all should be ready, and
at an hour she named he would be called for
by the father. Accordingly everything was
SO arranged; and the young man was con-
Quoted to church, his carriage following that
of his supposed father-in-law At the altar
which was dimly lighted, stood bis mother
and the bride, covered by very thin silver
tissue veil; and the ceremony proceeded
The youth, whose thoughts were fixed on pre-
sent happiness and engrossed by the service,
distinguished no one, and received his wife in
full confidence. Silent she was, but tranquil;
and his mother carried her home. The cor
tege parted; and he followed to his own house.
there to unveil the treasure of his heart. He
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and sister, who on some pretence had been
kept absent from the ceremony, seemingly
waiting in impotence with his mother and
the bride. The doors closed after him, and
his mother withdrew the veil and discovered
to him that his wife was a beautiful idiot,
whose large estate she had coveted, and had
taken this most wicked manner of obtaining
it for her family.
The anguish that followed brought him to
the gates of death, and the loss of reason has
nearly been the price at which she gained
the success of a plan truly diaboical. His
sister, most amiable creature, soothed him
at Elst into submission to his hard fate, after
finding no means were left to set him free
Of the mother and idiot l say nothing; he
never saw either, | believe, from that hour
Rosalie's fate, | believe, has drawn more
tears than any event in real life ever did in
Naples. Public proof was brought her IA
ther next morning of the marriage, but it
was added, the bride being yelled, her name
was unknown. Enraged, as you may conceive,
he carried his daughter, Tin silence,) to his
villa, and there understand, with more of
tenderness than might have been expected
from his stern character, unfolded what he
deemed the treachery of her lover The death
blow to all her happiness was such, as her
most interesting countenance proves, as tif-
teen years cannot etface and for couple of
years life seemed held by very slender
thread. That a young woman should remain
unmarried out of a convent is thing I'M
known; and her vast possessions made her
father anxiously desire to see her married, be-
fore the fatal truth was known to her, as the
sacredness of sorrow had kept all intruders
away, and her father resolved she should re-
turn to the world under the protection of a
husband. How this was brought about may
be accounted for by those who know the state
of society here All she desired, when she
found that her fathers will must be obeyed,
was full explanation of her situation to the
Marquis of s., whom she married.
Thus was the tragedy brought to the most
trying scene-the discovery of her lovers in
nocence, after she herself was another's. The
Marquis undertook this; he is a cold charac-
ter, but to her appeared sincerely attached.
RoSalie was only nineteen when this hardest
part of her trial was appointed to her; but
the effects were quite different from what
might have been looked for The cup of
misery appeared to have overlooked. She
received the intelligence as relief from the
bitterness of her former pangs; and, grateful
for his faith, she owned it was wisely done to
place new duties before her ere she was ac-
quainted with his share in their mutual misery.
Once and only once, they met in private
society; and she requested only her father
and husband might be witnesses. With such
woman what must have been the effect up
on all present? She clasped him to her heart
and wept in his arms and then turned to
her husband, and said to Count P. 40
this generous man we owe this Indulgence
Kneel with me, and swear it is the last inter