The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1867-05-15
" Madame. 1 have my reasons. ,G ood even


ing" "aitse2i sA ai ~ i'.l .l lx.if
:. Stay. SIRE" said she, taking hold ofhis
arm. I've must not part IN anger. \
submit. Since you wish il, submit cheer
iuily. Ii is not ny nature to oppose yeur
viii. love you too deeply Nor sh.H
cease 70 love you. Napoleon. because am
20 leave your throne and your side. II you
still 30 on victorious shall rejalce with y"u.
u reverse comes. will pray Ior you morn. !.
lug aud night, and 10 the hope that some
times you will think oi me-" si
Hardened ash was. Napoleon had loved
his vile deeply aud long aud nes subm,s.
slUn 10 her stern rrsulse--her calm but
mvurntul dIgnity--her anshaken love. NOV
ed even hna and Tor moment affection
struggled WIN amDiIion. il.turned 10 en-
brace ne, agaln. But IN ulat moment her
lace aud turn mad changed. llersye was
Ia with hire like t,at d Insanity, and her
whole person seemed in.Pired. tie ieh
himself in the presence ui superior being.
She led him To the window, and threw y
open. A thin mist rested upon the Seine,
aud nser tie gardens oi the paace--lii
around was silent; among the stars then
belize them. one Was lar brighter than the
rest: she pointed TO II.
/" BuLsparte," said she, /" that star Is
m,ne. 10 that and not 10 yours wa Ironis.
ed empire through me and through nv
dtstini.s you have risen part from me an !
ynu fall. The ,pirlt nf her that iurrsaw
my rise 70 royalty even nuw cornmunes
With my sp,ru, and tells me that your late
hangs on nine. Believe ,ne or not. ii we
hencelnrlh walk asundrr sou will leave no
empire behind ynu, aud viii die yourself u
shame aud snrrow aud with broken,, ,,sprIt. .
lie turned away sick al heart. aud over.
a.ed by lie words of nne whnse destiny
had been so strangely accomplished. Ten
,lsys we're passed in resolves and rnunlrr.
re- l,es-and the Ink that bound him 10
fortune wa. brukrn Josephine WAS dtvurc-
ed--and. as he said hiinsrli at 81. Helena
-lrvm that hnur his fall began.
Josephine wa, divorced. but her love did
not cease 10 her retiremen, she loved in all
his successes. AID pr4yed that he ~ CHI be
saved from the iruir, ui hi> fnul ambition.
When his son was born. she onlr regretted
that she was MT near him 20 his happiness,
aud when he went a prisoner 10 Eiba. snr
begged that she ~. .ht share ms irlson. and
relieve hi. woes. Every article that he
had used =, her rcsidenre renamed a. hr
III, IL; sic would no, LEI chair BE- moved.
The bo,k in which he had been last read.
lns WAS there. with the page doubled down.
and the pen that he had last used was by II.
with ink dried on its point. When death
drew nigh. she wished 10 sell her jewels ~
,rnd Tie iali~n emperor money her will
Was aubmit,ed To his correction. She died
before his felurn from Elba but her last
hoIgh,s were II him ani France her lasl
word. expressed the hope and belief. !" that
she had never caused tear to ilow." Size
was buried in the villagr church nf Ruel.
and her b,ly was followed 10 the grave
not alone by prince, and generals. but bs
,so thousand puor whase hearts had been
made glad by her boanly.
Her marble monument bears only thi-
inscription,
"guoESE AND HnRrkSsg To JosgpHiSE."
What fund 10 future writer. il her ch,
rse,er and fate aud what lrssnn to al
oi a., whether IN prosperity or adversely
/
WILLIAMS. TnE CHiLp 'roRruRsR. This
unhappy man. sentenced at Norwich Ia
i've wears 10 the state prison for starving
aud beating his daughter. was. says The
Hartford Tunes. brought TO this city yes.
terday and taken down TO the prisnn. lie
Is ncarly maniac or would be, were he
not almos, helpless imSecie--made 81
apparently. by his fanaticism as . splritu.
alisi, and his rclnurse At what he has done.
lie had 10 be lifted aud carried, Al vii.
limantic. from one train TO the other. lie
Is a wretched aud pitiable object and his
guilty paramour. Miss Mann. Is quite as
deserving of punishment as he is. We
Judge he will have 10 be removed from
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