Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-10-08

] uuuLj anu DeinB al eACelleUJ TlQer, ne Is
said to have appeared to great advantage
in the field. But pleasure wearies like la
Dor, and ere the days sports had closed,
| the distinguished horseman was found lag
ging far behind the dogs by Squire.
So wrapped up was he in deep meditation
that he did not notice the squire's approach
until their horses were abreast, when they
cordially saluted each other
Your Highness, said the squire, looks
tired
Not with the sport, good sir replied the
Prince, but Of my life'
The squire looked up, surprised, but a
glance at that strange, sad couhtenance,
which is remarkable in the Emperor, con-
yinced him that the Prince was serious.
You are young to be so melancholy OBJ
served the squire
His companion smiled, remarking,
Short as my life has been, fortune has
dealt strangely with me, SIR
Why, Prince, said the sqnire, never
heed the jade
His Highness merely shook bis head,
and said
Nay, sir, none Of us can escape our fate. ,
'Yonr Highness does not believe in that
superstition, was the Squires exclamation.
Call it what you will SIR replied the
Prince, it is a religion to me-
After long pause, the squire said
Every man has right'to his own opn-
ion-none more so than your Highness.'
The Prince raised his hat remarking
Sir, you fatter me-
Now, have heard it said,' observed the
squire, that fatalists STEALING a cautious
glance at the impenetrable face before him)
have an immense advantage over ordinary
men, by anticipating their future in this
world
The Princes face became lit with sudden
animation, as he answered
Sir, were l as confident of heaven as /
am of what shall be, would not
The squre's merry laugh cut short the
Princes speech, as he rougishly exclaimed
'Ah, ali! this is the disadvantage the fol-
lowers of your religion labor under. Your
state hereafter is as much q mystery to
you as our earthly existence is to us poor
devils
The Prince good-naturedly Joined in the
laugh himself, but soon relapSed into his
melancholy mood again. The squire was
too much interested in the subject to let i:
drop He said:
i should be afraid to think then that
the future disquiets you
1T is even so, good sir; though to a vul-
gar mind, it would seem as brilliant as
could be- was the reply of the Prince
What is that, your Highness?' now all
attention.
Refining in his horse, and looking steadi-
ly in the squire's fine open English counte-
nance, the Prince replied with much en-
phaSs:
Nothing less, sir, than the imperial pur-
pie of France
The squire'S first impulse was to laugh
but there was something too indescribable
about the strange man at his side, that he
felt mysterious influence creep over him,
for some time his tongue refused its Office
He, however, ventured once more to address
the Prince, but in more deferental man.
ner than he had been accustomed to use.
so great station as the one you men
tion, your Hghness, would compensate
most men for all the ills that flesh is heir
to-
Sir replied the Prince, with warmth
the majority of mankind are mere canaike;
great men are monsters because they are
giants in the midst Of pigmies AS EN-
peror of France have destiny to fulfil
Contemporaries may call me cruel, false, a
tyrant, but work for posterity, and by
that will be judged"
Your Highness is right answered the
squire; the responsibilities of such an Of
fee would make man Of your intellect SER
ious; but in the meantime, why DO sad?
Sir replied the Prince, Il am but mortal
and must vegetate like my fellows
The squire looked up in doubt, remarking
4 don't exactly comprehend your High
ness
Sir said the Prince, with an effort to
SMILE will it not turn history to romance
when it is written that Napoleon the Third
experienced the pangs of poverty?'
The squire looked up again with still more
surprise, and hesitatingly said
fear to be impertnent. but you as ton |
iSh me- If it should be merely for tempo
rary assistance, your Highness can com
mand me-
Sir exclaimed the Prince, grasping the
sQulIeS manu. YOU arc u Bentlelndu anu
your delicacy does you honor. / would
ask favor, though it may be at the ex-
pense of my own feelings"
"Your Highness has only to tell me how
can be Of assistance, aud there is an end
of the matter and no obligation.
In few words the Prince told him how
he was pushed for money, the victim of his
creditors, his misery and his wants A
cheq1e of Rl00 Immediately changed hands
and then the Prince, writing out re-
ceipt on the Ay-leaf of his pocket-book,
handed it to the squire, saying, 81 have an
absent mind, good sir. and may forget this |
transaction, let this be a memorandum, aud !
when you come to Paris, call at the Tuiller-
les the debt owe you shall be discharged
though before that hope the obligation
may not exist. My gratitude may not re-
pay you yet il you think the respect of
Napoleon III of any value, you have it, sir,
from my heart"
"No more, l beg your Highness." said
the squire, "but will keep the memoran-
dun and you may depend upon it shall
most certainly call at the Tuilleries, for
Prince, am not convert, you know"
BY this time they had reached the door \