Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-16
SELECTED MISCELLANY.
THE FAITHFUL WIFE.

In 1898, n. de Talleyrand was in
Boston. One day, whilst crossing the
muTket-place, he was compelled to stop
bv IA long row Of wagons, all loaded
with vegetables The WHY courier,
generally so dead to emotion, cOuld not
but look with a kind of pleasure at
these wagons, and the little wagOners,
who. by the by, were yoang and pretty
country women. Suddenly, as the
vehicles came 10 a stand, the eyes of Nj.
Talleyfaud CHANGED TO rest upon one of
the young women who appeared more
lovely and graceful than the
Others. An exclamation escaped from
his lips. Ii attracted the attention of
the lair one, whose country dress and
large bat bespoke daily visits to the
market. As she beheld the astonished
Talleyrand, whom she recognized i'm
mediately, she burst ont laughing.
~ hat, is 1t yOu?" exclaimed she.
Yes, indeed, il is /. But you, what
are YOU dong here?"
81, said the young woman, ''am
waiting for my turn TO pass on. j am
going 10 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
TBIleYrand the name of the village
where she was living, requesting him
earnestly to. come and see her. disap-
reared, and left him as If fiveted to the
spot by hisstrange apparition.
Who was this young market woman?
Madame In Comtesse de la TOur-du-
Pin, (Madamoiselle de Dillon1 the most
elegant among the ladies of the Court
of Louis XVI, King OF France, and
whose moral and 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 emigrated. she was
TUuug, lively, endowed with the most
remarkable talents, and like all the la
dies who held q rank at the Court, had
only haG time TO attend TO such duties
as belong 10 her highly fashionable and
cOurtly life.
Let any orc fancy the sufferings of
that woman, born IN the lap of wealth,
and who had bFeathed 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. IL was their good fortune to
escape from tho bloody land where
RObespierrG 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 visilant eve Of those mon
steTs vino thristed for innocent blood.
The fueitives landed in America,
and first went to 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
and beauty.
Monsieur de Ia TOuT-du-Pin was ex-
travagantlY fond of his wife. at the
Court of France he had seen her, twith
the proud eye of q husband, the OBJ.
jeet of general admiration. Indeed,
her conduct had always been virtuOus
anu N-ANAAA pa , bnb h0@s Al a. AoACiBu
land, and among .nnsophisticated re-
publicans QT93), what was the use OF
cOuTtly refinements
Happy as he was In seeing her es-
cape from all the perils he had dreaded
on her own account, still he could not
but deplore the future lot of the wife
Of bis bosom. However, with the pru'
dent foresight of good father and 8
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 fluently
and admirably well.
They boarded at Mrs. Mulier's-a
good-natured, notable woman, who. on
every occasion, showed the greatest
respect and admiration for her fair
bOardeT; yet M. de la Four-da,Pin was
in constant dread lest the conversation
OF that good, plain and well-meaning