Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-05-08

opposition was not likely TO be OF long
continuance and that as to Mademolselle
de Touryille's somewhat discouraging ex-
preston, such sentences from the lips of
ladies'
"That would be wooed, and not unsought be
won
we're seldom, if ever, l had understood,
to be taken in literal and positive sense.
Under this mild and soothing treatment,
Mr.. Rushton gladly threw of a portion
of the load that oppressed him, and we
set off in tolerably cheerful mood for the
theatre.
Mrs. Siddons' magnificent and appal-
ling impersonation over, we left the
house be, melancholy and sombre as ]
had found him in Harley street, and | in
by no means gay or laughing mood
We parted at my door, and whether it
was the effect of the tragedy, SO wonder
fully realized in its chief creation, or
whether coming events do sometimes cast
their shadows before, l cannot say, but
know that an hour after Rushtou's de-
parture was still sitting alone, my brain
throbbing with excitement, and SO ner-
vous and impressionable, that sudden,
vehement knocking at the street entrance
caused me to spring up from my chair
with terrified start, and before / could
master the impulsive emotion, the room
door was thrown furiously open, and in
reeled Arthur Rushton-pale, haggard,
Widths eyes ablaze with horror and
alright Had the ghost of Duncan sud-
denly cleaned out of the viewless air ]
could not have been more startled
awed
"She is dead poisoned" he Shrek
ed with maniac fury; KILLED murder
ed land by herr
| gasped for breath, and could hardly
articulate-" What whom?"
"My mother!" be shouted with the
same furious vehemence--" Killed by
her! Oh, horror horror horror !"
and exhausted by the violence of his
emotions, The unfortunate gentleman stag
gered, shuddered violently, as if shaken
by an ague fit, and fell heavily-for | was
too confounded to yield him timely aid
on the floor.
As soon as | could rally my scattered
senses, caused medical aid to be sum
moned, and got him to bed. Blood was
freely taken from both arms, and he grad
ually recovered consciousness. Leaving
him in kind and careful hands, hurried
off to ascertain what possible foundation
there could be for the terrible tidings so
strangely announced.
| found the establishment in Harley
street in state of the widest confusion
and dismay. Mrs. Rushton scas dead !;
that, at all events, was no igment Of sud
den insanity, and incredible, impossible
rumors were flying from mouth TO mouth
with bewildering rapidity and incoher-
ence. The name of Mademoistlle de
Tourville was repeated in every variety
of abhorrent emphasis /; but it was not
till | obtained an interview with Mrs.
Rushton's solicitor that | could under
stand what really had occurred, or, TO
speak more properly, what was suspected.
Mrs. Rushton had made deposition, Of
which Mr.. Twyte related to me the es-
sential points.
The deceased lady had gone out in
her carriage with the express intention
of calling on him, the solicitor, to ascer-
tain if it would be possible to to apply
the alien act to Mad'lle de Tourville and
her father, in order to get them sent out
OF the country. Mr.. Twyte did not hap
pen to be at home, and Mrs. Rushton
Immediately drove to the De Tourvilles'
lodgings in King Street, Holborn, with
the design, she admitted, of ayailing her
self of what she was in her own mind
satisfied was the purely accidental ta-
king away of jswel-case, to terrify
Mad'lle de Tourville, by the threat of a
criminal charge, into leaving the coun-
try, or at least to bind herself not to ad-
NIT, under any circumstances, of Arthur
Rush;on's addresses. She found Euge-
ME in state of extraordinary, and it
seemed, painful excitement ; and the
young lady entreated that whatever Mrs.
Rushion had to say should be reserved
for another opportunity, when she would
calmly consider whatever Mrs. Rushton
had to urge. The unfortunate lady be-
came somewhat irritated at Mad'lle de
! Tourville's obstinacy, and the unruffled
contempt with which she treated the
charge of robbery, even after finding the
missing jewel-case in band-box, into
which it had been thrust with some
brushes and other articles in the hurry