The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-14
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Astrangc Woman in Paris.
AllParis, just now, is curious to know
the name of a certain lady who drives
in n yellow carriage, with four splendid
horses, in the Bois du Boulogne. who
appears at the opera covered with din
monds, and whose loyalty led her to
hurry forward TO meet the Emperor on
his return from Algiers. 1t seems that
at Lyons the fair lady was recognized
by the wOrkmen, and regular chart
Nari was got up before the windows of
the hotel where she had alighted. NJ.
CheVreau, the frightened Mayor of I4y-
Ohs, VINO ls growingQuite n conspicuous
hgure III the annals of terror, was COM
pelied to telegraph to know what was
TO be done. The reply was conclusive:
lAet her return to Paris Immediately.
Tho lady alluded to is one of the mys
tef1es of tho hour, and engages The
whole attention of the Paris public.
TAI, fnir and somewhat melancholy
looking, she does not Mt first arouse the
curiosity of the stranger whose opera
glass may be directed toward her box
behind the one exactly opposite Tho.
Emperor's, Mt the Academic impcrinle.
But after n while he finds his oper;I
glass returning of itself, as 1t were. to
gaze upon that broad massive brow and
well cut features as n relief from tho
mean, ignoble physiognOmies which.
adorned with every wild and foolish
iash1on of the day, meet him from the,
boxes occupied by the faYorite I.ais and
Phryne of Paris. They say the lady is
a mditrcSScJcmme and holds her posi-
ton with as much self-cOnsciOuSncss
and dignity MS any in the land. She is
evidently destined to play part in the
history of the nineteenth century, for
the Bartstans have accepted her as one
OF the most conspicuous of its results.
ana her carriage has become as eagerly
waited for and followed us that Of the
emperor. Strange to say that, true to
the race from which she has sprung.
and to the Bohemian instincts bestowed
upon her by nature, she will sometimes
sigh amid all the greatness and gran
deur by which she is surrounded for n
moment of the freedom she once enfOv-
cd in the days ofglOry mentioned above.
When the tlt comes over her she will
9rlXe !iS out t. from the palace Mt the Selle
de Snint Cloud, which has lately become
hers by deed of gift from one who had
the right to bestOw it, and bid her COACH
1rlnn drive to the sign of the t'Veau sans
tete" downby the river side, where she
will alight, order one of tho course racy
1ldtctottcS, composed of eel and car
bel stewed i'll the rough red wine
compartment of piIncntO and other ter
ribly fierce ingredients, and where she
is sure to be Joined by nliserably-Dale
blear-eNed, sickly-loOking boy of tHen-
ty, whO;alwtIys in II state of half-fud-
die, does not even raise his greasy cap
on her entrance, although every other
individualii in the place is ready 10 sink
upon the grOundbeGOre her. The pair
exchange greetings full of love and
warm affection on the lady's part, but
received with indifference on that
of the boy, who proceeds to smoke his
pine cltLOtec without the smallest refer
ence for one before whom the highest
personageS in the country are boVyint,
down at this moment. Soon, however,
the mutcIOttc arrives, and bears the
memories OF old times as il enters.
breeze from the old Bohemia comes
waited with it's shVory fumes, and the
tide of remembrance bursts forth; the
coarse blue Wine OfOther days is QuaiTed
with hearty relish (; the slang of early
youth flies naturally once again from
lips accustomed now to lisp and mince
and nick-name Gods creatures, Ma
-ture, the first fresh, and uuforgotten
nature, comes back, and transforms ns
iEby magic the great lady ofto-dav in
to the StrOlling player of yesterdnv.-
The boy is her brother, whom no temp
t0tiOn of the wealth or honor of the
place or prefernlent he could now so
easily bestOW can purSuadc to
abandonment of that liberty of low
life which he can alone appreciate
This obstihacy of taste is the squalid
skeleton in the fine dnmask hungcloset
of the lady, and serves to account for
the fits of melancholy which alternate
with the severe attacks of painful iner-
riment to which she is likewise subject.
There I0s been great opposition to the
design entertained by n powerful friend
of making her a dutchess, but this op-
position has been overcome by bribery.
and6the Duchy of Saint A, in A1,
vergne, has just been conferred upon
her, and the four ruined walls of the
old feudal castle built by Saint A, the
crusader, and the. magnificent man
sion constructed by Saint A. the
courtier, some few centuries later. have
been made over to her under sign and
seal, and her property to beuueath to
her heirs for ever. There is yet time for
the Indy to play part other than that
which She had chosen, and such influ-
ence as she enjoys was surely never
meant to be wasted on the building a
new wing here or the planting of few
trees. there. TheWorld will hear telI'Of
her yet when the vacant chapter in this
reign comes to be filled up, and then
will the contradictions of her character
form pleasant theme of study to the
historian. -