Amador weekly ledger., 1858-03-06

Madame de Mar + is young, veal
thy and titled widow.
She possesses u splendid chateau on the
road to Rouen, near Rolleboise, upon the
banks Of the Seine. 1t is building whose
construction dates from the time when Sully
erected Rosny, but many modern comforts
have been added to its formal antiquity by
its present tasteful chatciainc
The bed chamber of Madame de Mar r +
is in the old portion of the mansion, and
while passing her last summer on the Rhine
the young countess determined to have the
time Of her absence employed in further
establishment of her demesne. Among 9th
er things, she ordered her architect to have
the ceiling of her bed chamber (from which
the view extends as far us Rocheguigon, a
manor once belonging to La Rochefoucauld
but at present to M. de Rohan) painted in
fresco, and the architect, TO whom she al
lowed only twelve hundred francs for this dec
GRAFTON, sent to Paris for a poor devil of an
Artist who undertook the work
On the 18th of September everything was
finished. Madame dc Mar y = establish
ed herself at RoIletoise for the autumn, with
her mother and sister. Every morning she
gazed, with the charm of fresh awakened
admiration, at the smiling fresco over her
head. Venus was thereon portrayed in the
midst Of her Olmpan court, as beautiful as
a reality, scarce vailed by the golden-tinged
clouds of the NEUROLOGICAL heaven.
This brilliant and fascinating picture exer-
cised singular charm over her spirits, and
was daily source of her disinclinaton to
change the horizontal for the perpendicular
position.
But one morning, with q suddenly reused
feeling of surprise at the possibility of her
having secured so admirable a work of art
for so paltry a sum, she set herself to study
more minutely the details of the fresco, when,
what was her stupeiaction, and almost af-
fright, to discover upon the beautiful face of
the coudgirt Venus-there was no doubt of
it ! there was the same golden hair, the
same blue eye, the same Gcicately smiling
mouth, even to the peculiar Grecan line OF
elevation which gave cher admirers said) an
incompatible elegance to her countenance--
yes it was her likeness--it was herself
Amazed at first, then charmed, she was at
last almost angry-quite indignant, indeed,
when her glass wandered from the face to
the airily draped figure; "the impudent fel-
low p she exclaimed
We have but scant place to tell the whole
story properly. Indeed, it ought to be a
complete romance, an entire comedy; but
our readers must have the solution of the
enigma-must you not?
Well, then, as we are in somewhat of O
hurry, here it Isl:
M. r., the celebrated painter, had oftn
met Madame de Mar = = the previous win
ter in society," and with the rest of the world
had admired her. more than the rest of the
world-he had in fact fallen in love with her;
artist-loye it was, with its pride of secret and
unsupported homage.
X. is one of those men who, feeling con-
scious of merit, cannot stop to take the first
step in such a case. Such men hope-long
for but wait Aud if fortune smile not
they are silent forever
lie loved, then, in secret, this charming
woman, in spite of her fortune and her no
blesse. But a singular chance afforded him
an opportunity of arranging-what you shall
know Immediately, fair reader, if yon have
not already guessed. He happened to be at
a friends in Menlan this last summer, and a:
luck would have it, the poor-devil-artist
charged with painting the famous frescc
stopped there too en- route He, the pool
devil, relates the ailaire, viz: that he is tC
paint the couutess's bedchaimber, ceiling, &c
&c.
"Stop Bit" says r., "Will you TAXI
the twelve hundred francs and go amus'
yourself for q couple of months, somewhere
else while | paint the fresco in your name Z
lie accepts, takes the money naturally-ant
clears out. II. installs himself in his place
in six weeks executes fresco worth at leas
twenty thousand francs, and quits the chat
eau incog, as he came.
But he returns, two months afterwards, i
his own character
For Madame de Mar =, after havin
worried her brain increasingly to discover th
mystery, at length, by means of regularl
instituted board of inquiry, found out the de
icate stratagem of her artist lover, and
mutual friend brings r. to Rolleboise, to b
thanked Besides, the chatelaine wants hin
, to resume his brushes, and either drape Mad
, anne Venus entirely, or change her sweet fac
into likeness Of some other dame OF his ae
quaintancc.
We are ashamed to be forced to decar
that delightful romance, SO POLITICALLY an
originally begun, has terminated in the mos
0 commonplace manner possible.
: Alas yes they are going to be married
/ The bans were published last Monday, 10
2 the third time, in the second municipality
(By this, perchance some one may guess th
names of the heroine and hero.)
IS Let us add, however, that up to the tin
a of this writing, under the prctext that Il