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

m sign his marriage contract. Nor
over. was dying to see you agail
for bore your loss with far les
lr philosophy than de Bretueil la
+" done"
10 The Machioness threw herself il
to her husbands arms, and thanh
,r ed him from her heart for his ten
'e der treatment of her first fOllJ
t, "And | may securely promis
|. that it will be my last, for your no
n be conduct has won from me
n warmer feeling than ! had supposed
,. could ever exist in my heart for
0 man so much older than myself
!. My dear, excellent husband, fea
nothing evermore from me. / an
too truly yours to be ever caugh
> in such snare again"
MY dearest" replied de Char.
{ nay, "when woman is as truly
loved as YOU are, and is gifted by
nature with soul like yours, she
= need never fear for her honor, pro-
vidcd she gives her confidence to
, her husband. Had you acted 9th
, erwise than you have done, your
reputation would have been injured
and your life blasted, and de Bre-
tueil would have been talking light
ly of his fancy for that poor Eu
genie de Charnay. AS it is, no
body has suffered. / have you back
again, and my happiness is to-day
without a flaw"
"All very well, sir,' said the
Marchoness, gayly; "but you for
get that | am dead and buried, and
how, in the name Of all that is
spectral, am to be born again in
to the world of France and the Yer.
sailles Court 2"
"Ah, very well, have a friend
at court, who, after blaming me for
marrying a youthful beauty, was
magnanimous enough to rorego
the pleasure of saying, i told you
so " and to uphold me in the hour
of need. The King, with whom,
years ago, | have gotten into many
scrape, knows all about yourpre-
tended death and burial"
The King knows all about il !" |
echoed Eugenie.
"Of course be docs, my dearest.
How could otherwise have carri.
ed out the stratagem A? Do you sup.
pose that any man in France is
bold enough to make way with one
of his majesty's subjects as | did,
without being open 10 suspicion
| was obliged to have royalty for
my confident, that l might kill and ;
bury my wife with impunity. You
know that in my youth / was one
of those Uauyica$, called pages, to
the King. Many are the tricks /
have played with Louis for an ac.
this presume, will be I
The last; but think / may tlatter I
myself, that my last one is also my
1tst." {
Eugenie laughed heartily, and at S
,he petit Soaper that was shortly !
afterwards served up to them, she J.
vas as marry as a lark. She was
'esolved however, to be revenged
IN dc Brctcuil.
The next day was to witness the
igning Of the marriage contract /
)e Bretueil was in the act Of rising a
With his ,faace to approach the Ia Il
'lc, when the folding doors of the "
tate drawing room were flung e
'pen, and an attending servant an Il
Iounced:
"The Marquis and Marchioness "
e Chanay." b
At the sound of her name de Bre - -
ueil started and in embarrassed ag. ~ -
tation dropped the hand of his be- II II
rothed, and gazed in speechless :, :,
error at the vision Of his lost love. " "
|ut no spectral figure robcd in !,
'hite met his eye, The lady that =, ~
eaned on de Charnay's ann was " ""
tangible and elegantly p
resscd in the prevailing fashion of =
le living. More beautiful than u u
YER (ior country air always i'm u, w.
roves city belle, Eugene came III ~
'rward smiling, and to all the obs ;e 1
nd abs, of her friends, and to the II u
Sclamations of the company in - :;
eneral as to her sudden death and =, ~
urial. she rniecd her pretty shoul, -,
ers and then pointed to her hus- s.
and. =. -
ut was agreed upon between the ~ ~
and myself" said the ~ r.,
arquis. l.,
But why the compact" was the l' l,e
y. rL .h
"Ah, ladies and gentlmen, that is u III
family secret and cannot be di. me
llged." III
There was great rejoicing over i hn
lgenie's resurrection, and people "a, "a.
,re of course, curious to hear the "
ws from Hades. In the midst of
e hilarity to which her adven. FRO
re had given rise, she found an in[
to speak to de Brete- o,i 5
She handed him three notes and ,n -
id tso
Would you, too, like to hear ed
IN beyond the tomb2 Those are of
the news ! gathered there, and In
en- you see their contents you he
| acknowledge that they were WI
worth the trouble they have BILE
EN- me-" and
IF courSn the M1thioness Ind to tLa