Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-02-02

= eSlle VIII laSC lOur or nYe months.
i Good heavens what am | to d
G all these months 7"
c Remember that you are unde
g no restrain. You can visit and b
visited you can draw and pain
+ and study to improve your mint
g You are under due restrictio
/, only; that of beng cut Off fror
S communication with Versailles
2 Now, il these conditions are to,
3 onorous, l have but one alterna
D tive"
"What is that ?"
{ must run NJ, de Breteuil thro
the body"
"God forbid! But he will die 0
J grief"
T "Better die Of grief, than by my
hand, and ruin your rel utation, Eu
genie. "
$50 be it them" sighed the young
Marchioness. "You promise me
on your honor that | am not sent
away for an indefinite period :"
81 promise on my honor, that
you shall return Inlet me see-in
less .hon four months"
So the Machioness left Versailles
that night, and on the morrow, dc
Charnay appeared at Court, and
mentioned the fact Of his wife be-
ing seriously indisposed. The next
day she was worse, and the follow
ing night she died.
The Marquis and his household
went in deep mourning, and gor-
geous funeral cortege left Hotel
Charnay to carry the body Of the
Machioness to the family vault, at
a considerable distance from Yer
sailles.
A few days later, de Charnay re-
ceived a visit of condC lence from
de Bretcuil. The former. Of course,
saw nobody, but he did for his
wife's love more than he had done
for anybody elsc-he wrote him a
letter.
Il was exceedingly fond of my
wife" said he. i'll the missive, "but
honor to me is a deeper sentiment
than the. love Of women. ! can,
bear my loss with the
calm regret of a man Of maturer
age, whose happiness has been ell
by that which would have
been Il far heavier blow than the
death of the beloved object. AS
'or you, however, whose passion
was beyond all bounds Of principle,
md beyond all love of life; who
iyed but to breathe the air she in
lalel, and longed for death when /
lsked You TO cease your visits to
ny house, am in hourly expecta,
ion Of hearing that you have put
IN end TO your intolerable exist,
nee, And let me add that my de-
eased wife departed this life with t
he firm conviction that you would 'f
Don follow her." '
"Poor de Bretueilr" said the
ourtiers Of the OeH de BO~cf, to :
ne another. "To think of his los
ng that beautiful creature just as :
he was about to fall into his pos l
ession"
L
Three months went by, and the B
Iarquis de Charnay determined y
hat it was time to terminate his Il
'ife's exile. She resuscitated at
he met her at the porte q
ochere, and giving her his arm,
I'd her to her boudoir, and seated t
er on the satin lounge. II
"You look well, Eugenic, and are t
" more beautiful than ever" tt
"Unfortunate de Bretuci !" said L
Is wife. "Since You recall me, l "
eed not ask what has been his fate. lt
e is dead" c,
The Marquis drew from his pocket d
tablet. Il
Here" said he, "recorled for e
our special benefit, is a memoran- ?
lin Of his sayings and doings, iC
nee your demise. On the day of Al
)ur funeral, dined with several e.
osquetaires, comrades of his, at 9
e 'Trois Tonnes They all D
ank to the repose of your soul, " "
ID Bretueil was in ecstacies at the o'
ngnilcence of the coffin and the =,
arse. He thought that l had ex- NJ N
bited both taste and libcrality in M
e arrangement Of the obseques.
yo days afterward | wrote him an CT
peal, in which / proved that it
d become his duty TO commit sui :"
lie. l told him that you had not W
ecisely commanded him to die, -
that l knew that you would be III
if he did not. To this we
ter received no reply for de ne ne
etueil had already gone to Paris t .n.
make the acquaintance OF 'ul
,hing young opera girl, and for oP
ON lie committed so many fol ull
}, that between the cashmeres
diamonds which he lavished on sal
and his losses at the
d table, he was minus three fro
usand louis in less than fort all
hit. VIII
Tow, de Bretueil, as you know, vii
lot rich; and as this damage to moi
purse had to be repaired, he civ
about him to find a young lady {
, would exchange some Of her be
erfuous cash for his name and boo
d looking person. You see app
after all he is a sensible fell Bre