The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1857-03-26

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his brow; his mouth was frightfully con
tracted; and as he made gesture of reiec
ton, the shudder which agitated his bod,
showed what combat between avarice anc
prudence ragged in his heart
AT this moment his wife entered, with
visage that bore the unmstakeable trace,
OF recent and violent chagrin. She ira
versed the chamber with rapidty. and stop
ping short before her husband, who wa.
still overwhelmed by the discourse of tho
Italian able
"My man." said she, "you had better gc
hide yourself; and may as well never sho ow
my face in the town again. Your brother
and sister will crush us with the insolenc,
OF their fortune. Know that they have
just received bv the diligence windfall o.
twenty thousand francs"
Twenty thousand francsm repeated he,
husband, III CONSERVATION; "and whencel"
ut 1t quite history. Your brother, q
year ago, saved from drowning Dame
who had come 10 see the Comte de Rantzau
at Avignor. The stranger, after thankino
him, departed, and now this noble acknowl
edgment arrives all in the shape of beau,i
iu! louis dor Won't they be intolerabe
Won't they look down upon us and crush
us-your younger brother, nay younger sis
ter! Oh, shall certainly die of grief"
And more especially, madame, at tn,
moment when monsieur, your husband, re
fuses legacy of fifty thousand francs al
least, which dying friend has left him
added the abbe.
"Whai. does he refuse ffy ,hous.,C
irancs' cried the wife, with such lool
ana gesture rs subdued or guilty husband,
only can appreciate.
so, at least, it seems to me-" said th,
abbe quietly; and lie recommended the re
cital OF the story which he had already told
not without displaying the ring, which
nevertheless, quilted not his finger.
1t would have required different char
acter from that possessed BY Antoine Allu
10 defend himself against the terrible assault
which had attacked him. Envious of Others
Ike too many small and little minded peo
pie, and also like too many great ones, III,
prosperity ct his brother seemed to him IN
outrage on his poverty His wife immed
ately ran TO fetch neighboring ieweler
who having examined tho stone, declared
that he would give for it sixty .hree thou
sand seven hundred and iortv.nnc frame,
eleven centimes, provided ,Iiat they woulc
take IN deduction IA charming tcrme oyne,
producing m income Of two thousand min,
hundred aud ninety francs, and which. tc
settle the affair, he would part with tc
them at valuation of fifty five thousand
francs.
The man and his wife appeared to be ab
SoIuteiy crazy with JOY; and Madame Allut
especially, could not contain herself Sh,
committed a thousand extravaoances and
could not resist embracing the abbe, who
submitted 10 the operation with aS GOOD y
grace rs he could command As for An
tome A'Iui, carried away by the uuexpcct
ed Hood OF prosperity, he AT once acl;nowl
edged that lie knew and would declare tn,
names required-not, however, withou; 4
cold tit OF hesitation and secret feeling o.
terror. But his wife WAS there a, his die
tatlon the able wrote the following names
GERYAIS CHAUGARD, GUllMEM SoLARI
MArrHIEu LoUrIAN.
lhe nng was now handed to Allut. and
upon Tie terms proposed, became the prop
erty oi the eJeweIler, who settled the business
upon the spot; and four months afterwards
TO the eternal despair of Allut and A, wife
sold the gem 10 a Turkish merchant for =
hundred and two thousand francs.
OI all the malignant passions, revenge
alone involves pleasurabIe sensations, short
lived as they are Envy, anger, hatred
and the rest, are all accompanied by pain;
but It has passed into proyerb that re-
venge Is sweet.
Difference Of price in the mercantile
world, especially if it be sudden, often oc
casions strange changes One specu!ator
rises on the ruin Of another. He who YES.
terday reveiied in pomp and luxury be
comes panPer today. lie who is uu.
known and despised one week-espcciaiIy
IN bEbbIe-time-shines millionaire in tn,
next. In The case before Us, the diAerenc,
caused murder, and the ruin of Alut and
his wife. Tho jeweler was found in hi,
garden, stabbed to the heart; and when, on
suspicion arising, AIIut and his wife wcr,
sought for, they We're nowhere TO hc found
lime wore on: the mur~e,ers of the level
ler wefo never brought 90 Justice. and tn,
last that was heard Of Allut and his wifi,
was that they were living in wretchednes.
IN Greece.
TO BE CONCLUDED