The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-08

waited, but he watched lie discovered
Cwhose life has secrets which friend
ship and enmity cannot discovery that
this model husband had been as frail
as any other, and had found a SAVIOR
in inferior but stolen fruit, deemed
wanting in that Of which he was the
undisputed proprietor
The excessive heat Of the first day
Of June determined her to spend the
summer in the country, aud she noted
her notary to procure her country
seat in the neighborhood Of Paris
This notary was an intimate friend or
Octave, and prompted by the latter
engaged her TO visit a beautiful cot
tage at Bellevue, then on sale. She
appointed a day to visit it. Octave
managed to drop in on a visit just as
she was setting out, and although she
insisted upon his going with her, for
. q long time he refused; it is true he
yielded before she got into the car
rioge which was to carry her thither,
He laughed at her the whole way for
burying herself in the country during
the summer, and not only argued to
prove rural life unfit for everything
but beeves intended to figure as JocW,
grass in Shrove Tuesdays procession
] and the binds who fed them, but ran.
sacked his memory for the filings
French authors have made at every
% thing like the country, except the
e groves and bowers in painted canvas
q Of the Grand Opera and Opera Com
e ique. She bore his opposition will
y great good humor; the truth is, wo
}, men like to meet with opposition some
b times, if only to show they have a vii
of their own.
c Bellevue is not far from Paris, ant
d before Octave had exhausted the com
p mon places against the country, tn
b carriage had stopped before the gate oi
!, a cottage whose architecture an
e grounds were irreproachable in
- Frenchman's eyes-althJugh l dare sa
l. they would have seemed to you too al
y ti6oial and too elaborate, smacking to
y much of the stage painter, and too III
j. tie Of Nature. Frcnchmen think Ma
it ture dowdy until she has been arrayc
1t in the furbelows, founces, and with tn
rouge of art.
D. They were usherod into the house.
n In the first drawing-room an ancier
c statue of the classical divinity, Flor
'r struck Nine de SIS attention. Sh
v involuntarily started. "What is I'll
IS matter?' THAT statue recalls SOM
n thing to my mind. My dearest hu
l- band (now in Heaven had one goc
II deal like that, which was sent him fro
i Rome, and which I admired much
ID One day he sold it, and when l toI
him how sorry 1 was for it, he sal
it was not worth keeping, being I'll
work Of some sculptor Of the dccllr
.v of art, and would disgrace any hou
ne in which it was found You know
e. was so hard to please, and Of such a
ID exquisite taste in art. They went il
l to the second drawing-rOOm, and it WI
,y scarcely entered, when Nine. de S.
=. started a second time at the sight Of tl
.e chimney piece. "I admired the dec
D- ration Of that chimney very much
1s the exhibition which preceded the sa
MS Of the Princess D., and UIed n
husband to buy it for me. He went
- the sale, and one Of my friends wi
was there called on me before the sa
was over, to congratulate me on tl
purchase, but when my husband r
:, turned he told me (to my iueXpressjb
Disappointment that he had bid hia
. for it, and continued to bid until Il
d. decorations reached some, forget who
or extravagant sum, (yOu know how exc
n bitant the prices obtained at auctlC
er these last few years have been,) wht
ry he was obliged to discontinue the mi
ut contest" Before Nine. dc s. hi
ut finished this explanation she had e
se tered tue library and had taken up
e- album which was lying on a contre-t
to BILE, She screamed With astonishmel
rs "This album belonged to my husbaI
. once; I know it perfectly we'll; Sc
ms here is a cypher on the back; it co
Dr. tains a great many charming DRAWN
,as by Decamps, Camille. Requopian, Mt
Ter sionier, Diaz and others.
he only husband told me ono day
he had given it to one Of his friends; h.
is did it get here2 to whom does this hou
m belong?" The porter, who acted as C
erone to do the honor Of the house,
a piled by saying that it belonged to
lie Monsieur --, an old shop keeper, W
ed, had grown rich by selling cotton mig
lv- caps and frocks, and had retired fir
sue business. "But does the proprio
we live hore2 Is this his furniture" ash
ion Octave, in a negligent way. "Oh, j
ion No, sirl lie leased the house for
we years to Mademoiselle --, and
his lease expires in a fortnight Eve
he thing you see here belongs to her.
ter "Abl said Nine. dc s., who is {
ted Madomoisolle. .-? Is she not an
uc- tress?' ayes, maam." They eute
i'm the chamber. Nine, de S. did
he say a word She stood like a sta
md and pointed to a portrait placed bei
ief the bed. We'll might she be anna
ur- beyond power Of speoohl The portr
re- in the bed-chamber Of the pretty
on tress was-thcre was no possibility
of doubtI-the likeness was striking
husband'sl That face, smiling bla
zee, ingenious, affectionate-there was
lint visage of tho sainted the wept,
fter faithful, the virtuous husband
f. Handkerchief o, devilW
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