Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1864-11-12

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- How the French loFed that man | I was Won Z
derins at it as | valley beside Pauline, when
stuck my foot against pnlethlag, and nearly fell
over-Igive you allie We to guess what / .
How can we !" saidGenefal Ciermont, look !,
iag Interested. Pray 3 N, my dear fellow
A little child's ga
There vas a faiot<essn Il klirection Of Lady
Ciernont's chair, Uat1t was lost IN the general
chorus of exclamatieksS the young Ffenchmaa
was lying silently back among his cushions as if
asleep.
Odd wasn't it ! said the Colonel, pleased
with. the excitement he had caused. You may
imagine how startled [ was 1t was the stone
had stumbled again-t-a plain mar Die cross, with
a wreath Of immorteles carved upon it No
nane-so date. Pauline watched me anxieusly
as | brushed back The rose bushes and searched
for sone trace of the little creatures name, or
rank 10 life, and shook her head with a sigh
wheaI gave it up.
g Whose is it ? Who can have selected such a
place.? ] exclaimed.
Monsieur will not be angry if | tell him p
why should | be angry 2
Because it compromises the honor of a coun-
tryman of his
What the deace !! Al Englishman? don't
believe it !! exclaimed tbs. GenereI, holly, starting
up in his chair.
8 Pauline said there was a private marriage
You see, some English lady, very young and
beautiful, stsid at L,zun for a long time during
the war. A French officer saw her they fell in
love with each other, and az his regiment was
not then ordered abroad, they met very frequent
ly. Then came the tale of the private marriage.
They lived IN the little cottage, and planted the
Proyence rose | had. been admiring. Almost a
year passed by, then the young officer was sud-
denly ordered away. The young girl staid be-
hind with her ohilds who had just come to make
them happier than ever. Poor thing if she bad
done any wrong, she suffered for it; fer tidings
came first of the expedition to Moscow, then news
of the young officers death. He had been eabred
at the head of his regiment, and was left upon the
battle field, among the dead. The mother had a
brain fever on hearing the dreadful tidings.-
When she recovered, and asked for her child,
they could only show her its grave. So she left
the cottage aud the Provence roses, and no one
Why, w6eresaalshe 90 2 asked Lady Caro-
line, who hardly knew whether to be shocked or
grieved at the tale.
God knows-I do not said the old soldier,
bluntly. i only know l was very glad to leave
e the place. 1t made my heat ache to look at thai
/; little grave !! l hardly think the poor mother her
self could have looked at it more sorrowfullly than
L. ~
Q The screen trembled so Violently in Lady
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eral- locked at her, and turned pale.
a How long ago was all this 2 he said in a con
strained v7;ce. 80
Let me see, nearly five years-at least NOR
than four
Lady Clermont and her fiend exchanged a lool
l. as a cloud began to dafken over the old man
brow T.; then the Baroness threw up her arm
s. and uttered a stifed excia nation
ID Help help the Baroness is %fainting,' sale
npECfoocnrt orfin f.ono 80 oIo;, - h,fox
lie any one else could reach her, he bore her in hi
ry arms to the farther end Of the room, and das he
the window open.
| How can | ever thank you eeou,h for sayin
ed her oh Margaret I he murmured passionatel
aod toe general huryiug.u up just at this momen
ir, caught the last two words, aud felt a load suddel
ng lY taken off his heart. No doubt the Barone
ed was the heroine Of the story, and drawing a lor
lite breath Of relief, he did his best to shield her fro
re- all observation.
It wa the heat, my dear friends it was t
De- heat, Geraldine he kept saying, { and it is We
e late past one O'Clock. Ii is time we were all
a bed. Seo, she IS revi9ing Geraldine my loy
&c: had you not better accompany your friend to
ro- room Z?
md Lady Geraldine offered her arm in silence; t
er's young Freedman drew back all shook han,
and gave each other the kind wisL es of the s.
ur- son, and then the ladies' left the room. In |
ne Juan haii III nout tHe gentlemen lOllOWeu, q
darkness and silence reigned in the lower roc
his of the Hall.
But in an upper one, a little boudoir; open
and out of the chamber Of the Baroness, a stral
as scene was taking place. Two fgnres stood
to by side, while the Baroness half reclined upon
pen sofa, was weeping bitterly at last they tn
themselves into each orher's arms.
An q thought YOU dead, Maurice thou
if a you dead believe me s" sobbed Lady Geraldine
/. Enyant-I do not douet it And not
la worlds wcu'd | have come here, had KIM
the whose guest | was about to become. Their
but one thing left for me- go at once
king 0 Maurice my own /; | never can
t by with you asanl Take me with YOU
sGeraldine'-said the Baroness RISING. {
that must, not Maurice, persuade her for me-
love D not fear me- said the young man,
/. ly. Geraldine, -ou ale IS the life blood oil
indy heart and yet l leave you. The. secrec,
rfect were Obliged to observe-the fact of our mar
word. by a Catholic priest. alone, makes it illegal
The law would pronounce you has wife ; not n
ly.- You owe him much ; you were happy with
var is till now and his life is bound up in you. {
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