Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-10-31
THE FAITHFUL WIFE.

THE FAITHFUL WIFE.
IN 1893, NJ. de Talleyrand was in Bos-
&on. One day. whilst crossing the mar
kct- place, he WAS compelled to stop by a
Nong row Of Wagons, aIl beaded with veg
,etables. The willy courtier, generally so
dead to emotion, could not but look with
10 kind of pleasure at these wagons, ond
the little wagoucrs, who by-the-by, mero.
young and pretty country women. Sud
denly the vehicles came to stana, and
Hhc eyes of NJ de Talcyaand dhanced to
rest upon one of che young wemen wsho.
appeared more lovely and ,grcaceful than
the others. An exclamation escaped from
his lips. 1t attracted the attenti on'af bhe
fair one whose country dress and largeG
hat bespoke daily visits to the market;
AS she beheld the astonished Talleyrand,
whom she recognized Immediately, she
burst out laughing.
"What is it you?" exclaimed she
"Yes, indeed it is /. But yQu, what
are you doing hese?"
a. said the young woman; I'd am
waiting for my turn to pass on. il am,
going to sell NY greons and Vegetables at.
the market.
At that moment tthe wagons bsgan to
move along, she of the straw hatiapptled
the whip to her horsc, told NJ. dc Talley-
rand the name ,of che village where she
was living, requesting him earnestly to
come and see her, disappeared, and left
him as if risetsd ION the spot by thisl
strange apparition.
Who was this young maiket-womau !?
Madame la Comtesse de la Tour-du-Pin,
(Mademoselle de Dillon,) the most ele-.
CANT amoug the ladies of the court of
Louis the sixteenth, king Of France, and
whose moral and intellectual worth shone
with so dazzling a lustre'in the society of
her numerous friends and admirers At
the time when the French pohiAity emil
grated, she was young, qEively, endowed
with the most remarkable talents, and,
like all the ladies who iheld a rank atythe
court had only had time to attend'tosuch
dduties as belonged to highlytlashiona-
tble and courtly life,
Let any one fancy the suferings and
agony Of that woman, born in the lap of
wealth, and who had breathed nothing
but perfumes under the gilded ceilings Of
the royal palace of Versailles, when all at
once she found herself surrounded with
blood and massacres, and saw every kind
of danger besetting her young and below
ed husband and her infant dhiM.
They succeeded in flying from France.
i was their good fortune to escape from
Hhe,bloodyj,land where iBobcspierre and
This associates were busy at the work oil
death. Alas in those times Of terror
i'the poor children themselves abandoned
with joy the parental roof, for no hiding
Eplacc was secure against the vigi!ant eye
c,af those ,mQnstess who ,thirsted for .ippo-
ucant blood.
The fugitivcs landed in America and
iiirst went to- Boston, where they found a
retreat. 5But what change for the young
pretty and fashionable lady, spoiled from
infancy by loud and continual praises OF
her beauty and talents
NJ. dc la Tour-du-Pin was extravagant-
'ly fond of his wife. At the court OF
France he had seen her, with the proud
eye of husband, the object cfgeneral ad-
miration. Indeed, her conduat.. had AL
ways been virtuous and exemplary but
now, in foreign land. and among un-
sophisticated republicans, Q793) what
was the use of courtly rsfncments?
Happy as he was in. eecing her escape