The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-11-04

plete sucn victory, ne began to pour
forth those trivial commonplaces of gal
lantry, which women are often good e.
nough to except as wit.
The pink bonnet stopped, at last, be-
fore a small green door in house one sto-
ry high.
''Monsieur viii not refuse to rest him
self for moment Z"
"Ab, Madame, sucl4 favor crownsmy
hopes"
The lady rang the bell, and a maid
servant opened the door.
'Is my husband in bed?"
'No Madame"
"Ah! SO much the better" and turn
ing towards Anatole-"Be kind enough
to come in, Monsieur; my husband will
be happy to thank you for the chiyalric
aid you have given me this evening"
Anatole took off his hat, muttagod q
few incoheront words, and then turned
down towards the Champs Elysees with
rapid steps. But the adventure had
touched him to the quick, and he was de-
termined to be revenged.
On the morrow he proceeded to make
inquiries, and learned that M. Dufouge-
rails, the husband Of the pink bonnet, was
an officer Of half-pay, with the eyes of an
Argus, and with a rather splenetic tenn
permanent; but in spite OF his ffty-fiye
years, still alarmingly brisk.
If Dufougorais, they said, was not q
lovablc man, he had, nevertheless, the
pretenson of being loved and he was so
assiduous in his attentions to his wife Hor-
tense, that he allowed her neither to walk,
drive, 90 to the theatre, work, or Go any
thing else without his company. That
Anatole met her alone in the evening,
required nothing less than two accidents;
the husband had spraned his anclo. and
her mother was unwei.
81 see" said Anatole, KIT is not fort
ress which surrenders at the first summons
that my star has thrown in my way, but
a Sebastopol that must be regularly be-
siegcd, with all the rules. The siege will
be difficult, perhaps long; but Hortense
is very pretty = and besides, TO con-
quer, without danger, is inglorious.'
The danger was not what disquieted
him the most in this enterprise. He tho't
| he had overcome sufficient tact and expe-
rience, to overcome twenty Dufougerais.
The only question was, to bring about
a capitulation on the part of woman,
whose husbands oriental proceedings
must, doubtless, incline her to make but
little resistance. The first care, then, Of
Anatole was to contriye correspondence
with the beloagured fort. By hanging
| about the house he succeeded in meeting
the servant, who, the evening before, had
opened the door. She was maiden of
sixty, with a most forbidding countenanco
penetrating eye, snarling tongue-in
| fact, regular Cerbcrus. At the first
word, she turned on her heel without con
descending to reply. The next day he
was fortunate; the Cerborus melted 1T
tie, and consented to take charge Of di-
minutive azure note, perfumed with PATCH
oHi.
The siege thus commenced, proceeded
in accordance with the wol-known rules
| The first note was returned, unopened.-
The second was not refused, but remain
ed without answer. The third brought
a tinny note, whose trcmulous characters
BETRAYED the emotion of the writer, and
in which he was entreatod to desist from
his compromising proceedings. As usu-
| al, he did nothing of the kind. Letters
and answers soon followed each other
with marvellous rapidity. The old but
quick messenger sometimes made four
journeys backwards and forwards in one
day. Nevertheless this correspondence
lasted week, and Auatole was no I
ther advanced than at first. All his
phies consisted in thirty pages filled
tender sentiment, wherein the same the
was embroidered and varied under
possible shapes and forms. Moth
without doubt, could be moro agrees
than to per,,so and reperuse, than to
and rekiss, thousand times, the eloqu
phrases of the beloved one; but the FL
romance is nothing without deuo
ment. For it was not one, to have sol
times, by chance, the fugitive pleasure
seeing at distance the shadow of FL
tense, designing itself on the curtains
the windows which her husband eviden
prevented her opening. In order, the
fore, to bring the matters to finish, A
atole determined to play heavy stakes
He wrote that if she could not find NEE
to give him rendezvous, he would bl'
his brains out. The next day, he rec
we'd an answer in these terms:-
"This evening, at eleven, the door "
the garden will be OPEN"
Imagine the transports of Anatolc, OH
reading this simple phrase. Never be-
fore had an adventure so much tried his
patience; but then never did triumph APP
pear so sweet.
eyes he cried, devouring for the tenth
time the words composing this admirable
note, Eyes, happiness is here, in the strug-
ole against obstacles which seem invinci-
Die, in the unexpected incidents which a.
rise "a chaxnuus. And this good fortune
wl.icl NJ itself for me every year,
ey3 (h and every woek--am I to
bEas 4 from my existence by the
scratch Of pen? Never! Mile. Gle
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