The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-24

not speak thus. MY resolve is taken. In for
eign lands L shall seek forgetfuness of my
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| Marston know that 'twould be useless to at
tempt further to dissuade him from his purpose,
and seeing that tho effort he was making to
control himself was painful, left him alone ,oim
his o,on sad thoughts.
True to his decision, Herman Mayville the
next day bade farewell to his native land for
ever Twas on the vessel in which he had
taken passage that be met Adine Bernadotti.
| Ere they reached Havre, he had learned to
love the little child, who in so singular man
ner had been the means of saving him from
death, with a strange and, to himself, incom-
prehensbe devotion. The mother, touched by
bis kindness to her daughter, told him the
story of her own life.
Adele Montmorenci was the only child of a
French count, and had been reared in the lap
! of luxury. Her earliest reeollections were Of
a chateau near Bordeaux, where she resided
| with her parents till she was fourteen, when
her fathers health failing, they removed to
"Florence ON the Arno," where they remained
four years, when Count Montmorenci died,
| leaving his wife and child a large unencum-
bered fortune. AT this time Adele was eigh-
teen and strikingly beautiful. Her hand was
sought by many, and ere she reached her nine
teenth year she bestowed IL and her wealth
upon Rafaello Bernadotti, a young Italian
noble, talented and handsome, but poor For
six years they enjoyed uninterrupted happi-
ness, when he became addicted to dissipated
habits and grossly neglected his wife and child,
the little Adine, then two years old. Madame
la Countess Montmorenci had returned after
her daughters marriage to her old home near
, Bordeaux, which she had left with regret and
long pined for. Thither Adele, unable to en-
dure the harsh treatment of her husband, who
was spending his days in designations, returned
with her child TO her mother, with whom she
remained till Adine was ten years old, when
she received letter from physician in New
York, telling her that her husband, from whom
she had not heard since she had left him, was
dying, and besought her to forgive and come
to him. All her old love revived when che
knew that he was sick and suffering, and
without hesitation she went to him, taking
Adine with her; she found him in great destitu-
tion and miserably i'll. The first thing she
did was to surround him with every comfort,
and for six months she watched over him night
and day, and he died in her arms blessing her
for her goodness. She was now on her way
home.
Herman, in return for her confidence, told
his sad story, and felt comforted by her warm
sympathy. AS for Adine, she had so entwined
herself about his heart, that ho dared not
think of parting from her. "The world was
before him-wbere to choosc;" and he deter
mined to 60 to Bordeaux and spend there his
life, devoting himself TO Adine.
Ten years have passed away. Herman
Muyvile is now thirty four, in tho prime and
glory Of his manhood. In a few weeks he
will lead to the altar Adine Bernadotti, an en-
chanting maiden of twenty, and one of Frances
loveliest daughters. Beautiful as poets
dream, she is the same guilcless, loving child
as when she talked with Herman in the moon
light, on the vessels deck, so long ago.
Herman remembers the sorrowful episode of
his early life, but as a troubled dream, which it
were best to forget. His father died three
years after he left his native land, and then he
felt that the last tie which had bound him to it
was severed, and he had now become true
and loyal son of France. fr|
Winthrop Mayyille and Inez EngIetou were
married two months after Herman's abrupt de-
parture, and are living at the Mayvillc Home
stead, and have family Of four children.
In Inez's hours of loneliness, when memory
is busy with the past, she feels pang of re-
morse when sho remembers her treacherous,
dishonorable conduct towards Herman, which
caused him to exile himself from his country,
and become wanderer upon the face of the
earthly. y. Ledger. .-...