The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-02-10
Letter from Pauline to Claude
PANS February 7th, 1876

PARIS, February TN, 1850
DBAR KIND WORLD You will please excuse my
matroply indelicacy in thus intruding my family
affairs upon your va liable space. | am. in part
led ia. this communication that may be placed
in the honorable position / once held before the
gaze of an enraptured and adniring world.
Tho age has somewhat silvered my hardy
tonchino with his frosty fngers-here and there
lam still Young and merry as in the hey day Of
INV Youth In memory, the delightful dreams OF
ing aqo are bright and full Of sunshine.
A telegram with Claude's" letter reached me
last tvcnil and | will assure you that the
whole of lie Palais Royal had been completely
demolished by the puff of zephyr, / would not
have been more thoroughly bewildered than wsEle
reading the quotations over the name of my once
dear . Claude
Thave kept silent from my friends through
veasss of hearts urnings-the secret Of my final
separation from Claude-and am compelled to this
expose by an overt act on his part in breaking
faith--o1r agreement, never to perform disrep-
utable action that would reflect disgrace upon the
hitherto honorable name Of Deschappelles.
But then, dear WORLD, you know not so well
as I, this once fascinating Claude. I remember as
it were only a day age, how he imposed upon my
girlish confidence, in painting that beautiful
Scene by the Lake of Como, margined by fruits
Of gold and whispering myrtles and a i such mons
sence How jolly. green to have believed bis
every word. What folly But then ] was young
and inexperienced; surrounded and always brought
I do not wonder that became infatuated with the
False Prince who breathed sweet nothings in ms
ear-always having at his fingers end the song
of a thousand poets-pouring broadsde after
hroadsiae. of blarney-never a cessation. The
Joker bewildered the enemy and IN the smoke
carried the works by storm. Then after-stert
reality Truth came to light-placing him from
to front and face to face with the broad day-kgh
the pictures hitherto Swallowed in the back
oround-stood forward False and unreal. Ant
how still loved him. How could one resist his
1What is pas, is past there is afuture left to al
men who have the energy to repent and the vir
the to atone'
Peace to the memory of Shakespeare to wha
base uses must we come.
have forgiven Claude his faults were natura
to erring nature. But how, by prayers or plead
ings, can cast off, Oh Bard of Avon, his nut
lation Of Thy fair works his brutal amputation
hacking, cutting and disocating, in foully mis-
quoting and misapplying Thy truisms, wisel
nrophesying al future time to come
OH Claude, in memory of the good old time;
be SO kind, for my sake, not to expose your igno
rance. Assume nonaae de plume Meyer quot
Shakespeare, for in your handling the natural an
harmonious chimes rattle in discord and aunplea
antly crate on the ear of night.
If not for my sake Claude, at least for yor
good old mothers confne yourself to small tai
a. much as you will; but for the love of the GOO
do not misinterpret the works and sayings
Natures Poet, and all may yet be well
PAULINE.