Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1855-06-21
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Y SCENE IN A PARfsfAN BALL room.

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y SCENE IN 3A PARfsIAN BALL ROOM.
vi wo years since, 4 young, beautiful
lantl glch n h Indy be Bologna married the
Il descenoaut Of a family well known to
u fllslssry, and whose illustrious name was
Ef the fortune which the bridegroom,
Ipossessed but the generous Bolognese,
Iln the ardor Of iser attachment oyer
looked the poverty Of hsr .ain Ishe
hope and Il, 4 expectation of u i,roper return
of her disinterested love. ,.,., sps'
Fer 4 yea, ~ was happiness; but
last summer, being on an excursion tu
4 Venice, they formed an acquaintance
'l,witl II, \ family from Paris. "A youg widow
1 g of that family, very gay, beautiful and
/ fascinating and possessing prnfasion
lofeolden tresses which might have done
honor to the head Of an Eve, or Opfe-
liza, attracted the attention Of the Mar
|aq''is Della r Her other charms
might have failed. but her rinelets were i
Eirrssis'ibie !; and forgetting the attrac-
tions " his young and lovely marchesa,
whose rich dark hair would have vied
with q Capello, a Cornaro, or even i
Juliet of the Capulets. he became en-
shared blythe fair head of the lively
IParisisn 3.
After month, the family, including
the gay widow, returned 10 Paris, and
lsin another little month";" the marquis
Ireceiyeda VI pressing call 10 Rome upon
business Of Importance land leayinghis
LADY to.return to Milan az leisure, he
took post ior Paris With ail possible ex-
Ipedition, where he had been i fortnight
before the neglected marchesa, who had
returned home, discovered the singular
error inthe campass by which her hus-
band'scotlrse to Rome had bssp disert-
ed, hy means of 9 friendIy ter, ap-
Ipraising her that her husband was
incessant IN attentions to the blondest Of
beauties, and her constant escort to tElg'
Theatre Italian and other places Of
amusement.
The lady called her brother to her
counsels, and they concluded to follow
the marquis to Paris without delay. Pre-
vious to her departure, the lady was
busy in making researches Of a singu-
lar nature. The troubled times in Italy,
during the intestine broils, had furnished
traditions ank memories Of melancholy
catastrophes by steel and poison, and
not few were the modes by which sure
and sudden death might beinAicted
was shown, at Ravenna, in l846.
hy the present. Countess of Boissy, (La
Guicciola Of Lord Byron one Of these
Poignards with blade Of crystal, manu-
factured at the Lagunian Island of Mu-
rano, in the cavity Of which, upon the
blade being broken in the body, became
diffused in the blood of the victim and
cansed sudden death.
In the archieves of the family IF the
jealous lady were notices Of heir
loom, in the form Of ring, concealed
in the setting Of which was small gold
globe, and in the interior Of which was
inserted poison similar in its effect to
pr1ssic acid. This could be borne ia
the mouth without danger, unless crush
ed by the teeth, and then instant death
would follow. 81 a*--t-
Secure Of this valuable jewel, the de-
serted marchesa arrived at Paris, and
was received into the house of her kind
friend, who was married to fnancier
Of eminence il the city, and among
many circumst snces calculated to dis-i
turb her, she learned that her husband
was, the next Monday, to attend the fair
widow to a ball to be given at the house
Of the former deputy Of the session
which, with many other things, was
broken up in lS48. A.
To this ball her friend consented 10
accompany her, and the hour Impatient
" expected, at length arrived. ROBBED
in black velvet with rich laces, which
set off 70 advantage her clear complex
ion. dark eyes and hair, she was suberb.
she was dazzling. With 6re in her
eyes, majestic in her department, the
naughty beauty strode thtoug h the room,
the crowd opening as she'adyanced, and
proceeded 70 . little salon lighted BY