The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-12-16
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HOW A BEAUTIFUL SLAVE CAPTURED
a COuKTLY FRENCHMAN.

HOW A BEAUTIFUL SLAVE EAPrURED
a COUKTLY FRENcHMAN. ssa
We are in receipt through Paris let
ter.:. of Il VERY romantic and DER trsfe
tale concerning NJ. BcDedetfi. the
French diplomat, who has already
made SO much talk III the, world, and
upon Whose shoulders the immediate
responsibility Of the late war was
thought to lie. The Incidents have
not as yet, leaked out in America. and
Will prove of interest to those who de-
light in refined pieces ofgossip and ro-
mailtlc narratives oflove.
Very early in the diplomatic career
OF the French ambassador bodily ia
figle led him to take a pleasure trip
through tliat most deligltf fiji portion OF
the globe Included il Greece and tlse
lonian Isles. and the countries thatlie
about the sea of MarIaora and the
Eoiphorlls. At Athens be fell IN with
Greek merchant, of elegant manners
and aftainnlents, to whose own per.-
sonal attia ctions was added that OF
daughter, the most beautiful in form
and feature that the eyes of the states
man ever 1T upon. A FrencInnan is
not slow s
TO TELL Ills LOVE,
Especially when Joined to that ir1so,isi-
ance and social daring that comes of
long life i'll tie most polished Of Euro
pean Courts, and the weeks that they
passed under the golden skies of the
i.evant, among the peerless islands
OF the Archipelago and IN the orange
and spice groves of Marmora were
glowing with the warm light of true
love l,, that ran smooth as liquid velvet.
Then came the disagreeable task Of
asking papa and the dramatic crisis of
our tale. The courtly merchant heard
the Erenciinan's patriotic dcclara-
ton III styles considerably different
from that Of the three act drama which
God-blcsses-yotl-m y-children and adds
several pillow-cases of gold and jewels.
The eyes of the old. man were filed
with tears, and the disclosure which he
insisted upon making ran as follows:
Some two years previous he, too,
wEARIED IN MISD AND BODY,
Had started out on pleasure jaunt
that led him through the Golden Horn
into the city of Cofstantinople. Stroll
ing through the slave maI.ts one day.
his eye had fallen'upon q young lady of
more natchless beauty than it had en-
tered into his heart to conceive of.
The disortleIed state of her garments
dropping from her full white neck and
shoulders, and disheveled hair pouring
its glossy black over cheek and bust,
and the look OF mingled terror and an
guish in her great black eyes, walked
all the pity and love that had lain DOR
mant in his heart for years, and that
night the apartments of the wealthy
Greek were lit by the glad smile of the
lovely and grateful slave. A year
passed, and as coming age drove pas
sion from the merchant's s blood there
came intoit. sssssa2A. r.,see
A GREAT LOVE AND REGARD
For the young woman he had taken
into his household, and after no little
hesitation and mental struggle he not
only released her from slavery, but
adopted her as his own child and
spared no effort to tit her for the posi-
tion that the wealth and standing of
her accepted father entitled her to. 1t
was at this jilncture that she met III .
Benedetti, and it is a bright spot in
that cllivalry for which France was
once SO famous that that these painful
disclosures added to rather than lessen
ed his love. They were married, and
upon the death of the merchant, who
did not long survive the loss of the slave
and daughter,
THE WHOLE OF HIS VAST FORTUNE
Was found to be ,willed to Nine.
Benedetti, utterly ingnoring several
heirs at-law. 1t is this fact that led to
the exposure of the tale, and may yet
cause the French statesman much
trouble. Suit was Immediately brought
by the incensed relatives to contest the
will, but the great influence of NJ. Bene-
detti kept it out OF the Courts. The
overthrow of the Empire, however,
now allows the law to take its own
course, and it is to be feared that the
fair slave will be shorn of most of her
fortune. There is enough left, how
ever, in face and form, if all tales be
true, to make the Frenchman bless to
his dying day his pleasure jaunt
through the golden sunshine of the
Grecian Isles.