Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-23
SELECTED alscELLAHY.
THE FAITHFUL WIFE.

In 1898, M. de TaIleyrand was in
Boston. One day, whilst crossing the
markell place, he was compelled to stop
by long row IF wagons, al loaded
with vegetables. The willy courier,
generally SD dead to emotion, cOuld not
bat look with kind of pleasure at
thcse wagons, and the little wagoners,
who, by the by, were young and pretty
country women. Suddenly, as the
vehicles came 70 a stand, the eyes of nj.
Taneyrand CHANGED to rest upon one of
the young women who appeared more
lovely and graceful than the
others. An exclamation escaped from
his lips. Ib attracted the attention of
the fair one, whose country dress and
large hat bespoke daily visits TO the
market As she beheld the astonished
Talleyrand, whom she recognized inn
mediately, she burst out laughing.
''Whaf, is it you?" exclaimed she.
Eyes, indeed, it is /. But you, what
are YOU dong here?"
Il, said the young woman, sam
waiting for my turn to pass on. l am
going to sell my greens and vegetables
at the market"
At that moment the wagons began to
move along, she of the straw hat APP
piled the whip to her horse, told Nj. de
Talleyrand the name of the village
where she was living, requesting him
earnestly to come and see her, disap-
peared, and left him as if riveted to the
spot by this strange apparitiOn.
Who was this young market woman?
Madame Ia Comtesse de la Tour-du-
Pin, (Mademoiselle de DillOn) the most
elegant among the ladies of the Court
of Louis XVI, King of France, and
whose moral aud intellectual worth had
shown in SO dazzling a lustre in the
society OF her numerous friends and
admirers. At the time when the
French nobility emigFated, she was
young, lively, endowed with the most
remarkable talents, and like all the la
dies who held q rank at the Court, had
only hRG time to attend to such duties
as belong to her highly fashionable and
cOurtly life.
Let any one fancy the sufferings 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
with blood and massacres, and saw ev-
cry kind Of danger besetting her
young and beloved husband and infant
child.
They succeeded in flying from
France. It was their good fortune to
escape from tho bloody land where
RObespieTre and his associates were
busy at the work OF death Alas in
those days of terror the poor children
themselves abandoned the parental
roof, for no hiding place was secure
against the vigilant eye of those mon
sJeTs who thristed for innocent blood.
The fugitives landed in America,
and fiTst-Went 90 Boston, where they
found a retreat. But what a change
for the young, fashionable and pretty
lady, spoiled from infancy by loud
and continued praises of her talents
aud beauty.
Monsieur de Ia TouT-du-Pin was ex-
travagantly fond of his wife. At the
Court OF France be had seen her, swith
the proud eve OF a husband, the OBJ.
iect of general admiration. Indeed.
her conduct had always been virtuons
and exemplary; but now, in a foreign
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courtly rehnements I?
Happy as he was IN seeing her es-
cape from al the perils he had dreaded
on her own account, still he could not
but deplore the future lot of the wife
OF his bosom. However, with the pru-
dent foresight of a good father and a
kind husband, he nerved himself
against despair, and exerted himself to
render their condition less miserable
than that Of many emigrants who were
starving when the little money they
had brought over with them had been
exhausted. Not word of English did
he know; but his wife spoke it fuently
and admirably we'll.
They boarded at Mrs. Muller's-a
good-natured, notable woman, who, on
every occasion, showed the greatest
respect and elimination for her fair
boarder; yet NJ. de la Tour du-Pin ives
IN constant dread lest the conversation
Of that good, plain and weIl-meaning