Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-06-13
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THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS AND HIS
DAUGHTER

a few years since, there was in the city of St
Petersburg young girl, so beautiful and so love
ly thai the greatest prince OF Europe had he met
her, even in the peasants hut, might even have
turned his back upon princesses to offer his hand
and his crown But far from having first seen
the light in peasant S hut, she was born in the
shadow of the proudest throne on earth 1t was
Marie Ncolnwne, the adored daughter of the
Emperor of Russia.
As her father saw her blooming like the Nav
flower, and sought for by all the heirs of royalty
he cast his eye upon the fairest, the richest and
the most powerful of them, and, with the smile
of a father and king, said to her
My child you are rcw of aye TO marry and
have chosen for you the prince who will make
you queen, and the man who viii rende. YOU
happy
The man who will render me happy stam-
mered the blushing princes, with sigh which
was the only objection 10 which her heart gave
utterance. "Speak, father" she said, as she saw
a frown gathering on the brow of the Gar
"speak and your Majesty shall be obeyed7
Obeyedr exclaimed the Emperor, trembling
or the first time in his life. is il then only as an
act OF obedience that you viii receive husband
from my hands 2"
The young girl was silent. and concealed tear
Is your faith already plighted?'
The young girl silent.
Explain yourself Alarie-I command you!7
AT this word, which sways millions of human
beings, the princess fell at the feet OF the Gar
"Yes lather--if | must tell you-my heart is
no longer my own ii i bestowed upon a young
man who knows it not and who shall never know
IT, if such be your wish. He has never seen me
but two or three times, at distance, and we will
never speak to each other, if your Majesty forbid
it."
The Emperor was silent in his turn He grew
pale Three times he made the circuit of the sa-
loon. He durst not ask the name of the young
man.
He would have braved, for a caprice, the mon
archs of the world, at the head of their armies /;
yet, with all his omnipotence, he feared this un-
known youth, who disputed with him the posses
sion of his highest treasure
is II ki1a 2" he demanded, at last.
"No, father"
The heir of kina, at least g.
No, father
"A Grand Duke a.
mo, father"
a son of reigning family =
mo, father"
At each step in the descending scale the Gar
stopped to recover breath
a stranger o.
Yes father"
The Emperor fell back into armed chair
and hid his face in his hands like Agamemon at the
sacrifice of Iphigena.
as he in Russia = he resumed, with effort
"Yes, father
At St Petersburg7'
"Yes father
AnG the voice of the young girl grew faint.
"Where shall see him q said the Car, rising
with threatening aspect.
To morrow al the review"
" How shall | recognize hima' demanded the
| Gar, with a stamp of his foot.
a BY his green plume and his black s;eed,"
| at is we'll Co my daughter, and pray God
| 10 have pity on that man g.
The princess withdrew in fainting condition
and the Emperor was lost N thought
"A childish caprice he said TO himself at
length. u am foolish to be disturbed at it She
will forget it, and his lips dared not utter what
his heart added " 1t must be; for all my power
would be weaker than her tears
On the following day at the review, the Gar
whose eagle eye embraced all at glance sought
and in has battalion naught else than greer
plume and a black charger. He recognized II
him who wore the one and rode the other, simply
la Colonel of the Bavarian Light horse Ma>'n1i
han Joseph Eugene Auguste Beauharnos, III
Duke of Leuchtenberg, youngest child of the sol
of gosephene-who for a brief time Empires
, of France,-and of Auguste Amelia, daughter o
Macmillan Joseph, of Bavaria--an admirabl
and charming cavalier, in truth but as far inferio