Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1865-08-23

Louis the Sixteenth, King OF France, ana
and whose moral and intellectual worth
had shone SO dazzling lustre in the So
ciety Of her numerous friends and ad-
mirers. Atthe time when the French
nobility emigrated, she was young, live
lIT endowed with. the most remarkable
talents. and like all the ladies who held
a high rank at the Court, had only had
time to attend to such duties as. belonged
Ito her fashionable and courtly life.
Let any one fancy the sufferings 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
by blood and massaeres, and saw every
kind of danger besetting her young and
beloved husband and her infant child.
They succeeded in flying from France.
! It was their good fortune to escape from
the bloody land where Robespierre and
his associates we're busy at the work Of
death. Alas in those times of terror
the poor children themselves abandoned
with Joy the parental roof, for no hiding
place was secure against the vigiiant eye
Of those monsters who thirsted for inno-
cent blood.
The fugitives landed in America, and
first went to Boston, where they found a
retreat. But wbata change to the y0ung
pretty, and fashionable lady, spoiled from
! infancy by loud and continued praise Of
her beauty and talents
Mons. De Ia -du-Pin was extra7a-
gantly fond Of his wife Atthe Court Of
France he had seen her, with the proud
E eve of a husband, the object Of genera
: admiration. Indeed her eonduct had al,
ways been virtuous and exemplary; bu
e now, in foreign land, aud amongnn
sophisticated republicans, qT93 } wha
= was the. use of country refnements?
Happy as be was ~ seeing her esoap'
from all the perils he had dreaded on be-
b own account, still he could-not hut de
piore the future lot Of the wife Of hi
bosom. However, with the Rru9eptfore
sightef q good fstherand akiRahusban2I
he nerved himself against despair, an
exerted himself to render their eouditior
less miserable than that Of many emigrant
who were starving when the little none
they brought over with them had bee
. exhausted. Not.a word of English di
he know; but his wife spoke it fuently
and admirably we'll.
They boarded at Mrs Muller's, goo
natured. notable woman, who, on ever
occasion, evinced the greatest respe'
and admiration for her fair boarder y
VI. de la Tour-du-Pin was in constaI
dread lest the conversation of that GOO
plain and weH-meaning women might
the cause of great ennui to this lady
What a contrast with the society of sue
s. gentlemen as N. de Norbonne, NJ. I
Talleyrand, and the high minded an
polished nobility of France Whenev
he was thinking of this transaction, (Pa
ticularly when absent from his wife, al
fIling the garden Of the cottage whi'
they were going to inhabit he felt sue
pangs and heart-throbhinGs as to NAL
him apprehensive on his return to Nh
Muller to meet the looks of his below
wife, whom he expected to see bathed
tears. Meanwhile the good hostess won
m. give him hearty shake of the hand, a
repeat to him, " Happy husband Hap
, husbandr
ne At last came the day when the fugjti
oy family left the boarding house Of N
:, -" Muller, to 20 and inhabit their little q
''5 tage, where they were to be at le
'ON exempt from want, with an only serva
negro, a kind Of Jack -of-all-trad
oS' viz: gardner, footman and cook. T
e|' last function N. de la Tour 'u-I
~, ~ dreaded most of all tosee him unaerta
-Lo 1t was almost dinner time The p.
hon emigrant went into his little garden
no5 Garden some fruit. and tarriei s long
=. possible. On the return home his v
.na was absent; looking for her he ente
tho the kitchen, and saw young coun
IL woman, who with her back to the d
~ was kneading dough; her arms ofsnt
whiteness we're bare to the elbows.
de la Tour-du-Pin stared, as the yol
hot woman turned round. TWAS his belo
wife. who had exchanged her mus
am and silk for country dress, not as f,
am fancy ball, but to play the part of
>, n farmers wife. At the sight of her !
band her cheek crimsoned, and she joi
n to her hands in a supplicatiDg manne
lied "Oh my love" said she, " do not la
Ion at me. 1 am as expert as Mrs. Null
she Too full ofemotion to speak, he elias
.stlv her to his bosom, and kissed her ferv
and ". From his inquiries, he learns
this when he thought her givenup to desF
she had employed her time more usef
an ? for their future happiness. She
Pin, taken lessons from Mrs. Muller and
ele- servants. and after six months, had
+ of come skillluI in the culinary az