The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-03-25
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1IrrLE RoN4SoE FROM OVER TIE
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A Paris letter tells the follow
ing romantic story

a Paris letter tells the follow
ing romantic story
A very extraordinary story was
recently narrated to me- for the
truth Of which | can vouch. An
American gentleman, a man OF
middle age and wealthy, who has
a spledid suite Of apartments IL
fashionable part Of the town, had
the curiosity to inquire Of his
landlady who were his fellow
tenants. After she had described
the usual families ar trols1eH'e
the clerks, strangers, etc, the
actors. milliners and musicians,
who inhabited the highest fights,
madame recalled a remote garnet
corner inhabited by young lady
whom she described as afflicted
by dreadful eruption, which
rendered her hideous, and who
was in the last degree poor, neg
lected and hopeless. Still, she
is lady, a true lady. Poor SOUL
she cannot live long in such mis-
cry"
Ny friend visited the invalid,
found her in dreadful circumstan
ces. and ascertained that she was
evidently a German, although
speaking several languages like
a native. He babe the Ian dlady
remove the sufferer to a good
room, provide her with comforts
and medical attendance and call
on him for a weekly allowance
for her support, after which he al
most forgot his charity, or, if ne
did recollect it, it was with a
shudder at the dreadful wretch
edness which he had witnessed
One morning the Iandlady came
and stated that the poor lady had
recovered, that his allowance had
been so carefully managed that
she was provided with a travelling
outfit, and that, before returning
to Germany, she wished to return
him her thanks. lie assented,
and what was his amazement when
instead Of the pallid, shrunken,
horribly repulsive object which
he had seen, there entered
young lady Of extraordinary
beauty, whose every glance and
movement, despite the plainness
Of ker dress, indicated style and
elegance. Her gratitude was
unbounded she seemed to al
most worship the man who had
been so generous. She did not,
however, hesitate to acceet from |
him a further gift in money, after
she departed.
All this took place sometime
ago. Last Autumn our American
Travelled. AT every town he
found rooms engaged for him, dis
tinguished people called on him,
as if by luck. 1t was to luck he
attributed it, for though a mystic |
rious hand was at work, he did |
not for q very long time suspect /
it. While in Berlin he was, how /
ever, amazed at receiving an in !
vitation from one of the first of !
the Hanoverian nobility, to visit /
him at his estate. He went there,
was overwhelmed with kindness, /
and found in the castle, as only /.
daughter and heiress of his host, /
the lady whom he had relieved /
in Paris. The next day she ex-
planned the mystery regret |
that | cannot fully do If. 1t was |
one of those long stories of dread +.
full crime, shame and-an inno- |
cent victim-agony and flight
which hang over most noble fami-
lies, and once in every generation
or so, bear q sufferer to the abyss /
In the last instant of hope the 1
American had rescued such a
victim, and circumstances had en- T
abled her to return to her former |
station.
You may call this a romance
|" out of the age w ell, | can
point out to you one of the first
in Europe, whom l
once knew as boarding for a dol
lar and q half q week, near on
of your Atlantic cities, and whose
life in America and return to for
tune, was more than counter
part to this Hanoverian lady 5.
A DARING WIFE AND NoBLE
WoMAN.-Capt. Burton, the well /
known traveler,sent his wife from
Brazil to London, to superintend /
in that city the publication of his
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