The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-11-24

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tivated her affections. The lever was no
longer young, but still in the prime of
manhood, while the maiden, accustomed
to the almost exclusive society of her
adopted parents, looked upon her suitor
without objection to the difference Of age
In few short months after his appoint
ment to the high station we have men,
toned, the young lady was married to the
brilliant officer, and the peasants of the
district still mention, in terms of admira-
tion and astonishment, the wondrous do
ings, the fireworks and waterworks, the
horse-racing and ringing matches which
took place upon the occasion. Shortly
after the marriage, the husband took bis
wife to the seat of his government, where
she soon became the admired of all be-
holders, and is celebrated in that part of
Poland in certain verses which were sung
before the Emperor on his visit to the
place, as the Morning Star of PA-,"
in short, for several years all went merry
as a marriage bell.
At the end of that period, only two
years since, the death of the adaptive
mother of the lady caused the disclosure
which we have made, and which, not by
any means necessary for the marriage, be-
came indispensable for the arrangement of
the inheritance after death. At the first
word contained in the documents left by
the dying lady in the cottage, on hearing
the names and dates therein mentioned.
the miserable husband sank senssless to
the foor-he could not fail to recognize
his own offspring in his wife, the mother
Of his children now standing beside him,
and felt himself guilty and a stricken
man.
At the close Of the struggle for indie.
psndence, when the Poles, beaten on all
sides, were forced to submit, Captain q
had rendered his resignation to Russia,
and had acquired titles and honors under
the Russian government, although con-
science had so stung him that he had
deemed it expedient to demand change
Of name, which under cover Of his new
title, had been willingly granted.
Immediate measures were taken to oh.
tain the advice and protection of the Pope
who, after due deliberation, pronounced
the marriage valid and the children legit-
innate, but Of course exacted immediate
separation. There was no need of this
decree. Long before it had arrived at
?. the husband had become a gloomy
maniac, and had exchanged tie brilliant
palace he occupied for the stone walls and
solitary cell to which he was perforcs con-
veyed beneath the care of the doctors of
the place.
The curse of heaven stands before him
night and day; the malediction incurred
by his desertion of his c0untry's cause is
regarded by the poor madman as having
brought down this terrific judgment on his
head. For two long years did the unhap-
py wife attend him with the most devoted
care; but the medical attendants having
declared that her presence was contrary
to his recovery, she was resolved at length
to come to Paris and seek in the distrac-
tiens and interests of that place some little
soothing to her wounded spirit. Of course
the society Of Paris is divided into two
camps-the enc adopting her as its pro-
tegee, quand meme, the other refusing to
acknowledge her, or to admit her into its
most sacred precincts.
Much curiosity is expressed to learn
what attitude will be assumed by the EN-
press, as the story Is so well known,
known, and the name of the lady grown
so familiar in Partisan mouths, in conse-
quence of the discussions which are open.
ly going On about the affair, that it has
become the great social problem of the
hour. Meanwhile the lady may be seen
daily taking her drive in the Champs
Elysees and her two girls, of six and four
years of age, prattling merrily by her side.
We should not, for our part, have given
it as the only story from Paris of the
week had it not occupied US, the initiated,
entirely; and We can guarantee every
word of the wondrOus tale as being the
most solemn and lamentable truth.
AARON BUKK's DAUGHTER IN LUCK =