Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-01-26
AN ImPROBABLE STORY.
Translated from the French Of AIphonse Karr.I
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[coxTISuED FRo,s LAST sUsDAr.-

BY Lsee PssS
[coNTNUED FROM LAST sUSDAY.l
PART II.
M. de Riessain has gone to the cor
vent FOR his daughter, and has installe
her in the house, where he receive
Octavius and Henry. This house is
new purchase which his daughter ha
not hitherto known of, and which sh
finds charming. The house is in th
middle of an immense garden. Aun
Endoscia has come back TO join he
brother and niece. Business affairs hav
caused her to make stay at the town
sss, with her niece, which was to hav
been of two months, and Whlch IA
lasted more than 8 year, because NJ q
Riessain, himself obliged to make
Journey, did not think it necessary Il
have them return to the country INT
dav after the arrival Of the two
NJ. de Riessain coldly announces that b.
ia exoecEiug the visit OF the HUSBAND
whom be destines for his daughter. Au
eeliea turns raIe aud looks at her aun
with q despalring air. Aunt Eudoscii
asks a few questions: Well, brother say
she, what's is the young man like, for 1 d'
not doubt for q single instant that ayouDi
man is in question ?-Sister, answers III
de Riessain, l will have the honor o
presenting him to you tomorrow.
Amt Eudoscia and Niece Angeles
4 retire early 80 as to be able to talk freely
Of the event. Angelica, already strongly
inclined torebellion, receives the Creates
encouragement from her aunt on thiI
subject; then the aunt resumes th'
resdfng OF a novel which they have
commenced. At each instant, striking
auslos;ss between ADgelica's position
sgd that Of the heroine, draw exclama
tio.s from the aunt and niece, followed
by long reflections.
In fact the young and beautiful Flo
reska is dragged by q barbarous father
/ against her viii, TO the altar, where she
! is 10 marry the cruel and fierce Nerisko
/ lint FIoreska loves q certain Oswald, and
finds in her love an unshaken frmnes:
against the tyrannical author Of her days
I The aunt interrupts herself here tC
/ observe to her niece that the little
singing master is called Oswald, bul
/ Angelica requests her aunt seriously not
[ TO sneak to her any more Of the singing.
master. They separate, and prepare to
retire; but at the end Of few moments,
Angelica, agitated and trembling, comes
back into Eddoscis's room.
OIL good gracious, aunt! il you
-
Angelica? Your countenance is dis
tu-bed.-Come, aunt, come look in my
roon.-Would it not be better to ring
Aunt, there is nothing dangerous about
Il. hut it is very extraordinary, You
know. the unknown ?-the man Of the
houeysuckles he is III your room ?-Ah!
aunt, said Angelica, biushing, what sn
idea What is it, then ?-There is bou-
ouet Of honeysucBles in a vase, on my
mautel.-It is not possible Il know very
well that it is not possible, aunt, but it is,
and that is what astoBishes me.
They return to Angelics's room to-
rether. It really is 8 bouquet of honey
suckIe; the room is quite perfuned with
II. They ring for the waiting-wOmsn
attached to the two ladies service. It's
not she who placed the bouquet there /;
she does not know what it means.
They send her away, and the suut and
niece pass part Of The night in talking
sense ald nonsense.
Oh! now, says Angelica, I am like
Floreska: I am loved, and with the most
tender and constant love: Think, aunt,
here it is more than a year! I would be
thankless not to feel little gratitude for
so pure and faithful fame. am
loved, Oh o.. You must acknowledge,
aunt, that il IS very disagreesble not to
know the name Of him by whom I am
loved-whom am 80 near loving N.Y.
self.
The aunt adds that it is no les. embar-
raising TO have never seen him. .
Who can he be? Is it thst tall, dark
man that they called NJ. de Wolstein ?
oh no, aunt; he Is common 10 the
greatest degree.
Gould it be, then, that fair young
man, so fresh and rosy?
-Psdaw! aunt, do not like fresh,
rosy men.
I am lost in conjecture, then.
It is nearly three o'clock in the morn
ing. when Eudoscia announces that she
is dyiHg lCifh sleep. Angelica asks per-
mission to share her bed, in the first
pIace because shei not sleepy, and hopes
TO be able 10 talk q little more about the
unknown, and also because she cannot
think without artless trouble and modest
fear that the unknown has entered, and
can enter her closed room. 1t is only
with the first rays Of light that they fu-
ish by going to sleep. Angelica has car
ried the bouquet Of honeysuckle into her
Aunt's room. It has her first glance
when she has gone to sleep. During the
whole night her dreams show her
the unknown, but he has his back
turned to her, or has mask on his face.
In the morning, at breakfast, NJ. de
Riessain asks if they are not going to do
. little dressing. When she is alone
with her aunt, Angelica announces that
she will not do any, that she does not
intend to take any pains for this gentle
man so favored by her father. The
aunt objects that it is not necessary
however to scare people. Angelica an
swers that she does not ask any better
than to scare Mr.. d Hervilly- Her
father has ju-t told her at last the name
Of the man whom he destines for her. q.
I would like to know nevertheless if, the
suitor gone, Angelica would learn with
Measure that he refused her hand because
he found her too ugly. In the history
If feminine heroism, q history which
would be long and fine, il these great
com bats, these great victories and these
great defeats did not take place in silence,
We find women in great numbers who
have sacrificed everything for the man
thew loved, rank, honor, fortune, some
have preferred death to infideliIy /; but
We do not see any who have attempted
apv injury TO their beauty, and have
digfgured themselge q little in order to
displease any oppressors smitten with
their charms. Perhaps, besides, we must
seek for the cause of this in mans in
gratitude, for, certainly, it is not courage
which is wanting in women, and they
have more than men, but they would no
doubt fear, after such a sacrifice, to dis
please the man they loved, at least as
much as the one they did not love.
This is not what happens, however ;
ANGELICA has done just exactly as much
dressing as is necessary not to anger her
father, and yet Octayius cannot Jiad &c
pressions enough to tell NJ. de Riessain
how beautiful he finds ber. Angelica,
on the contrary, gets angry with her
aunt who says that this young man is
not bad looking; she then recoIlects per-
fsctIy well having met him in society
the preceding winter, and, Of all the
mea whom she saw, he was unquestion.
ably the one who displeased her most.
No, should her father curse her,
She will not marry NJ. d'Hervilly; she
would like to be able to say how differ
ept the man with the bouquet Of honey.
suckls is; but though she is certain of it,
she does not dare to express her convic-