Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-04

oh inst To take effect on Monday, July nth. 1851
A French story of the DemI-m Onde-
A FInancIer In DImculty.
The London Court Journal has the fol
lowing from ite Paris correspondent.
Paris is getting itself again. Gossip hs'
returned from Trouville, from Biaritz, from
Ems. Baden, and Hombourg. where she
has been reignipg for many months. Ghe
first thing she finds gives matter OF wonder.
the greatest pdTti of the day has been
married during her absence, and without
her add But ample revenge does she
take, and by dins of perseverance discoV-
ers the manner in which this marriage has
been brought about A certain fair lady
we'll known to Paris de0j monde had long
since attached herself to one of the richest
and most respectable fnauciers of the
MACE. 1t has been believed for many years
that a unto n would ensue, and nothing
could be more natural. seeing that the lady
having already wheedled the 6nancier ont
of more than half his fortune, their fnan-
cial position had become, OF course, equal.
But the fiusncier awoke one fine day to
a sense of the ruin which was impending,
aud with the courage of hero resolved
to break asuuder the bonds by which he
was thus held bound. A voyage to the
Isle OF Bourbon, for the interests of the
house in which he is partner, was chosen
as the excuse. The determination was
kept secret from the lady, and short
Journey to the South of France served as
u pretext for the hurry aud the pressure of
business. But the lady, whose father Is
said to have been head gardner at Trianon,
was too fully impressed with hereditary
wisdom to allow of any step of the kind
being taken without her concurrence, and
she began to make her preparations for
her journey to the South likewise.
For some weeks the race was run
pretty even match; but the fiuaucier had
admitted kind friends into his secret, while
the lady, having secret to keep, pro-
ceeded in the coolest and most collected
manner possible in her business of prepa-
ring for the trip. Bonnets and hats of
every kind, dresses with trains and dresses
with loops, dresses with zigzag trimmings
and dresses with mems coat. tails, were all
bought, tried on, and packed; and when
at length all was ready, and nothing more
remained but to wait till "business" al
lowed the 6nancier to depart, she sat quiz
city down with patience aud resignation
under present dullness, to think of the
havoc and desolation she meant ITO carry
into the ranks of the rivals gathered in vast
numbers, whether at Baritz or Bayouue,
at Marseilles or at Nice, Rnd-eVeryWhere
else. But the cunning iuancier, aided by
bis friends, had got all things ready, aud
oue'morning, while bidding her farewell
for the day, in order to go and take leave
of his mother, he qaietly got into the Bor-
deaux train, and was already far on his
way to that place before the fair ds1't-naoHde
had finished her calculation of how many
dresses it would require for decent wo-
man for months stay at Biaritz, chang
co. H1Ri00y thn daU and n0iU
twice in the evening.
In the midst of this puzzling work shs
was disturbed by the entrance of the opti.
ciau, of whom the 6nancier had ordered 6
telescope, which, if not ready 10 time fol
his departure from Paris, was to be sen
on to Bordeaux that same night, so tina
he might get it q few minutes before the
vessel in which he had taken passsg
should have steamed away. The fair dem
monde learned with o horror of which NJ
wOrdsAcan give description, of the scurv!
trick about to be put upon her, but unwil
ling to give the alarm in these days of tel
egraph and treaChery, she took the instru
ment, merely saying she was about to de
part with the 6nancier, and Immediately
started for Bordeaux herself.
The faithless one was already on board
he was no doubt hugging himself on tn
superior wisdom which had guided hin
throughout the AFFAIR, WQen the wei Know
face appeared in the little boat sent along
side the ship for the conveyance from shor
of the last effects of the passengers. TIL
scene which ensued was understandable
The lady would insist on clInging to hi
fortunes. She was tender aud perseverin,
likewise, and at last the iuancier, fairI,
overcome, consented to the sacrifice o
twenty Thousand pounds, almost the Who'll
remnant of his fortune, if she would con
sent to-return on shorel The bargain
was struck, the deed drawn up on board
and before the vessel had fairly steamed
out of port the successful denHi monde wal
on her way back to Paris, richer by he
days work than many of her fellows VIII
had been toiliug away their lives.
But If every act is respectable for it
motive, that of our heroine must be regard
ed as sublime, for in a few days was posted
up at the Madeline the marriage of he
daughter with the son of the greatest com
mercf8l capitalist in Prance-a marriage
which had only been retarded in conse
Quence of the want of sufficient fortune or
the part of the bride The twenty thou.
sand pounds, according to the rule il
French marriage, leveled all difficulties anC
distinctions and notions ofright and Wrone
in short, every sentiment but that o
satisfaction was mown away by the COLDER
scythe brought by the DEM monde from
Bordeaux This, then, is the first of Cos
sips gleauipgs since she arrived, huugr!
and famished, from the waters of HON
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