The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1865-06-02
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turned 10 France was The Count de ker>
ven.
LIE brought with him a daughter three
years old. Ter mother, Young French
exile, was destined naveT 10 see her natiys
| country. or the castle where the ancestors
Of her husband had so proudly kept their
state from century to century She lay
in the little picturesque church-yard of
Richmond, in England, where Der father
had found refuge, where her husband had
/ married her, and where her child w as born
The Count de Kerven carried her men ory
in his heart, bat all the love he had borne
her he concentrated on the child that vas
the only record Of their union and her
existence.
Marie lie Kerven WAS his idol, and moth
ing but the noble, generous qualities i'm
planted in hsr heart could have prevented
her being utterly spoiled and perverted by
the bIinc worship Of her father. But her.
was nature endowed with dignity and
gravity tha. could not be dazzied by the
fiatteries of all around her.
She bad been bro2ght up in the tradi-
tons of ancien! heroic Btetagne, the old
royalist state.
NJ. de Keryen, during bis residence in
England bad met his old friend and COM
panion in arms, the Count ST Leu Who,
like himself, had married 10 exile. To his
son, few years older than Marie he lad
following the ancient custom. beihruthed
her, and now tha, they had returned to
+ tEair ~ -. ,pta
point Of honor with NJ. de kerven and
his daughter to keep ths contract for Leon
de st. Leu, had found none Of The inberi-
lance Of his father; nothing but the right
10 live in his native land had been reslo ed
to him and the power, through bis own
exertions, to achieve fortune. This, &c
bis father or bic ancestors would have been
impossible, utterly unused as they were tl
all tell, physical and mental 5u, Leon
had received more progressive education
and was prepared TO achieve bis own 10,
dependence. With the indemnify the
government paid to the spoiated nobility
Leon, boldly LAYING aside his title, put BIS
capital into an iron foundry, and " as soon
on the high road to fortune.
der; be was little shocked at Leon't
forselfnlnes of the traditions Of his race
ani his nobility: bu. never fer an instant
did he hesitate in the fuItiIlment OF hic
contract with his daughter. This was ::
sacred AS his duty to his king and hi, God
admitting OF no question the only pra, E,
be would not have granted his daughter
would have been the one that would have
pleaded fer freedom from this engage,
meni.
| When Marie WIS seventeen NJ. de St
Leu came for the first time to the chateau
dc kervsn. To Marie, brought up II the
traditions Of Eer race the ties VI hici
bound her we're IS sacred to hor AS they
vers to her father. Yet it was not with
out secret dread that she awaited tie
coming Of her intended husband &c
was utterly different from what she had
pictured him. Tall and dignifed, sedats
and grave, he possessed none Of those SO
clai graces that aria had imagined the
peculiar attributes OF young lover His
conversation wa. full Of interest, bis mag
ner Of expressing himself full of elegance;
but he paid no more attention 70 Marie
than hs did TO her father, and SO she con
clnded that, like herself, be would merely
fnlhi the contract from sense Of duty
and without one feeling Of The love oI
passion which,, IN her secret, youthful heart
Marie felt ought 10 haIIow so important s
contract as that OF marriage
One day, The one on which u. de Lsu
was to depart, an event occurred which
startled her, and stirring her heart made
her wonder whether there was moi a love
TOO deep for words, and beyond her conn
prehension.
They were on horseback, on one Of the
rocky paths overlooking the sea. Msrie's
horse stumbled one moment more aud
horse and rider would have been precipi
ta,ed below. But With ore strong Quick
hand, Leon grasped the bride, Viii with
he other be elasped Marie, and she va.
: saved
She bad tainted from fright and emotion
When she opened her eyes she WAS living
IL his arms, and looking up beheId his
pale lace and his eager eyes gazing down
in agony on her.
Leon said she with an arch smile
VIDA! would have done if had beeu kill
et
u would have Iaspad after you and
diei by Jour side," said Leon. in deep,
imprisoned voice that came from his heai
and reached Marie's
All that day Marie was silent and alb,
sofbed; strange and nes feeling seemed
10 fill her soul. When that evening Leon
came. she looked up to see if again the
deep, impassioned gaze would meet hers,
but his features had resumed their cain
lmpaSsiveness, and his manners we're but
codly courteous
q few dsys after he had left, M de
kcrven received letter from. bis only sis.
ter, whom for over twenty years be had
not seen. Louise de Kerven bad not been
faithful TO the traditions Of her race Left
in France at the time of her father
fight, abe had been educated in the mod
ern revolutionary school, and to the honor
OF ter noble relations had married a rich
and prosperous merchant. rejoicing in hall
a million Of capital and the pebeiar name
Of Dubois.
She laughed at the old nlusty prejudicet
OF her brother, IS she called them, bnl
she had great belief in the power o.
fatally affection, and she also fell. much
pity and sympathy for the Young oirl, her