Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1870-09-23

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'.No, father"
"a Grand Duke ?"
"No, father"
"A son of reigning family
''No, father"
| At each step Of the descending scale,
the Gar stopped to recover breath.
IA stranger?"
eyes, father"
The Emperor fell back into an arm
chair, and hid his face in his hands, like
|Agamemnon at the sacrifice of Iphigenia.
lis he In Russia 2" be resumed with
effort.
Eyes, father
"At st. Petersburg p
"Yes, father"
And the voice Of the young girl grew
faint.
"Where shall I see him p
Tomorrow, at the review"
| ''How shall recognize him ?" repeat
ed the Gear. with stamp Of his foot.
'By his green plume and black steed." !"
"'Tis we'll. Go. my daughter. and
pray God to have pity on that man."
The princess withdrew 10 faiuting
condition, and the Emperor was soon lost
in deep thought.
IA child's caprice" he said at length.
II am foolish to be disturbed at it. She
shall forget it," and his lips did not dare
utter what his heart added. ''It must
be. for all my power would be weaker than
her tears. ssss-F-.s - sss7
sAt.1hs review On the following day The
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glance, saw IN his battaliens nanght else
but green plume and black charger.
He recognized in him who wore the one
and rode the other simple Colonel of the
Bavarian Light Horse, Macmillan Joseph
Eugene Auguste Beauharnais, the Duke
Of Leuchtenburgh, youngest child Of the
son of Josephine (who was for a brief
time Empress of France) and the Auguste
Amelie, daughter of Macmillan Joseph,
of Bavaria, an admirable and charming
cavalier, in truth, but as far inferior than
Marie Nicolewna as simple soldier to an
Emperor.
lis it possible" said the Czar to him
self, as he sent for the Colonel with the
design of dismissing him to Munich.
But at the moment when he was about
to crush him with a word, he stopped at
the sight of his daug ghter fainting in her
|caleche.
"There is no longer doubt, " thought
the Czar, tits indeed he."
And then turning his back upon the
|stupefed stranger. he returned with Marie
to the Imperial Palace.
For six weeks, all that prudence, tenn
pered with love and severity, could inspire,
was tried to destroy the image of the Col
onel in the heart Of the princess. At the
end of the first week she was resigned; at
the end of the second she wept; at the end
of the third she wept in public; at the end
of the fourth she wished to sacrifice her.
self to her father; at the end of the fifth
she fell sick; at the end of the sixth she
was dying. :.
Meanwhile the Colonel, seeing himself
in disgrace at the court of his host with
out daring to confess himself the cause,
did not wait for his dismissal to return to
his regiment. He was on the point Of
setting out for Munich, when an aid-de-
camp of the Gear came to him.
II should have set out yesterday" he
said to himself, II might have avoided
what now awaits me-at the first flash
save yourself from the thunderbolt."
The bolt in reserve for him was ushered
into the cabinet where only kings are al
lowed to enter The Emperor was pale,
his eye was moist. but his air was firm
and resolute.
"Colonel Duke" said he, enveloping
and penetrating him with his glance, You
are one of the handsomest officers in Eu,
rope. It is said also, and I believe it is
true, that you possess an elevated and
thorough education, very lively taste for
the arts, noble heart, and an ideal char
acter.
The Colonel looked up.
"What think you of the Grand Ouch
ess. my daughter. Marie Nicolewna :"
The point blank question dazzled the
young man. It is time to say that he ad-
mired and adored the princess without be-
| ing fully aware of it. A simple mortal
adores an angel of Paradise even as an
artist adores the idea of beauty.
1.-The Princess Marie, sire!' exclaimed
he, reading at last his own heart. without
daring to read that of the Gear, 'your
anger would crush me if I told you what
! think of her, and I should die Of joy il
you permitted me to say it,"