Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-12-08

ballot. Many military men and gov
ernment officials, also belonged to it,
The members assemble in large hand
some building. comprising rooms fo
reading, billiards, cards, and converse
tion, and regularly every evening, from
six till ten, whilst ombre, and especially
preference, the Russians favorite game
were there played. Great banquets
comprising everything that the cellal
and kitchen of st. Petersburg can pro
duce, are also occasionally held there
Theatres in the season, and concerts in
Lent, vary the amusements to be found
at her club and in private society; and
in summer, when business is over for the
day, the country house is resorted,
where friends pay and receive visits
There they have music, dance in the
open air, ramble in the charming parks
and islands that surround St. Peters.
burg, and make boating excursions on
the Neva. The early morning hours
are spent out of doors, then comes a
river-bath, which every country house
possesses, and then the swift droschki
whirls the man of business into the city.
Such, in st. Petersburg, is the life of a
merchant of the second guild.
Thus did Iu- live. On certain
Sunday afternoon he was about to drive
from his country house to Kamini- Os-
trow, when, just as he went out, heavy
shower of rain fell. compelling a number
of ladies who were just passing at the
time; to seek shelter on the covered ter
race ofhis villa. He Immediately threw
open, the folding doors to offer them
refuge in his drawing room, when, to his
great establishment, one of the first who
was the young lady who he had
seen at the book shop, and who had
been on her way to st. Petersburg, in
company with an elderly duenna when
the rain surprised her. The former
brief meeting served as protect for bet
ter acquaintance. Perejay Sulkowks
was plainly dressed, and enchanted the
admirer as much by the grace of her
and the resources of her mind
as she at first sight had done by her per-
sonal charms. Her mother, the elderly
widow of an officer, was the model of a
respectable matron, grave, without NOR
conversible without loquacitd
The evening approached, and Iu-I
begged permission to escort them into
town; he drove them to their residence,
where everything indicated both easy
circumstances and good housekeeping.
Iu- cultivated the acquaintance; his
first, fleeting inclination developed itself
INTO warm affection, which was shared
BY the young girl, whose hand, in a few
weeks time he demanded of her mother |
He then for the first time learned that
she had not power to dispose of the hand
If Pereja, who was only her foster
confded to her care by the !
Empress mother, and whose name, /
which had corrupted by the Russian
was Parisia. From the
that ensued, Iu- learn
ID that his mistress had found mater
lal protectres in the Empress on the
-ery same day on which he had been
taken in at H-'s house.
rhe consent of the illustrious lady, was
!sked by the lovers, and joyfully grant
ID, and rich dover was allotted by
he Empress to her adopted daughter
n lieu of which however, the happy
begged the gift of the basket
# linen in which she, who now made
he happiness of his life, had first been
asst helpless upon the world. He de-
ired to preserve it forever in his family
S memorial of his imperial benefac
ress.
Iu- is now a happy husband, fa-
her of a numerous family, counts his
evenue by millions, and has depots of
lis immense tobacco manufactures in
lmost every town in Germany-in Ber-
in amongst others. He lives in great
tyle. at st. Petersburg, does splendid
usiness, possesses estates, breeds cat
le and owns iron works; assists thou
ands of fneedy persons from his super
uity but still modesty remains. "a
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