Squatter sovereign., 1855-10-02

was heavy with the sighs of orange groves
and music from sweet lutes,s and murmurs
of low fountains that gush forth in the
midst of roses! Love, dost thee like the
picture e '.-..a,r sss n.i,,,..u
"Ahg' exclaimed Pauline, softly, ..as
the bee upon the flower, j hang upon the
honey of thy tongue. Am not blest2-
And if love too wildly, who would not
love thee like Pauline g q
30, false one !" exclaimed Claude, Bit
terly. SIT is the prince thou lowest, not
the man. If in the stead Of luxury, pomp
and power, had pointed poverty, toll. and
care, thou hadst found no honey on my
tongue. Pauline that is not love- ..f-
Cruel prince" said Pauline, ts.thou
wrong'st me. IT'S true 1 might not at
6rst have been won, save through the
weakness of fattered pride but now
o, trust me, couldst thou fall from thy pow
er and sink-'' .,- t --0--
"As low" inquired Melnotte, eagerly,
"as that poor gardner's son. who dared to
lift his eyes to thee e.
"Eyen then," said Pauline, .'methinks
thou wouldst be only made more dear by
the sweet thought that could prove how
deep in woman's love! We are like the
insects. caught by the poor glittering of a
garnish fame; but O.! the wings are
scorched--thel brightest star lures us no
more, and by the fatal light we cling till
death - 80 "a
| Angel" murmured Melnotte. Con-
science stung him for the treaeherous part
he was playing. Her love had given a
torture worse than her hate. ~ a
He lost nc. time in seeking out Beau
seant and CLAWS, and desired them to re-
lease him from hiSoath He said he was
not in his senses when he had sworn to
them to marry Pauline. Instead, howev-
er. Of complying with his request, Beau
seant replied that the invention he had
planned to bring about the marriage inn
mediately, was ripe for execution. In
great excitement, he went to the Deschap-
pelles, add pretended that he had Just re-
ceived from a friend at Paris member
of the directory-a letter, stating that the
prince was suspected of designs againt the
republic; that he must quit Lyons imlne-
diately, or he would be arrested-thrown
into prison-perhaps guillotined Hor.
ses are ordered to the carriage immedia-
tely, and the prince was to fly to Marseil-
les, and then take ship to Leghorn.
Unwilling that the prince should depart
without her daughter, Madame Deschap-
pelles was anxious that the marriage should
take place at once /; the settlement was ar
ranged by proxy; and before the ceremo-
ny was over. the carriage was at the door,
and Pauline as she and her parents
thought-was carried home the bride Of
an illustrions prince. But what fearful
reality it was to her, to find herself in less
than half-an-hour surrounded by the rude
walls of widow Melnotte's cottage! The
blood almost froze in her veins when she
discovered that she was the wife of peas
ant-the son of peasants-a young man of
poor though honest parents. At first she
thought it all jest. horrid dream-and
was amazed beyond measure to hear that
the deep wrong of this most vile revenge
had proceeded merely from the slight which
shea poor powerless girl-had shown
Claude by not accepting his verses. But
Claude repenting what he. had done. was
ready to lay at her feet a husband rights;
as by the laws of, France a marriage thus
unholy and unfulflled could be made void
and null, he begged her to sleep tina: night
in peace. for that the law would do her
justice and restore her to the right to bless
another with her love- s=s-as1 zse@-e
"And when thou art happy" continued
Melnotts, ''and hast half forgotten him
who SO loyed-so wronged thee. think, at
least, Heaven lost some remnant Of the
angel still IN that poor peasants nature"
Pauline. in her solitary chamber, pass
ed the whole, long desola,e night in sobs,
while Claude sat down and wrote letter
TO Pauline's father, which he sent off at
daybreak. begging him to come and re-
ceive into his hands his consent to the d.
worse. - -sss.. ssssf $.
On rising in the morning Pauline found
Claude absent, but she saw his mother. In
a conversation with the widow, she found
out that she had been loved--idolized by
Claude Tor three years; that he had learn.
ed TO paint. that he might take her like
ness; and that. three years ago he had sa-a
we'd up all his money TO buy real Seive
Ckina cup. merely Seeause the name of
Pauline was inscribed on it. Pauline was
weeping and grieving iha. Claude was not
something better than a gardner's SON
that bsa xra~ EY,S = r.r,.v Gentleman