The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-12-02
A TRUE LOVE STOEY.

We are in receipt through Paris le.tefs
Of very romantic and DER true tale, con-
cermg III. Benedict, the French diploma
who has already made so nTucIl talk in
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 delight
in refined pieces of gossip and romantic
narrative of love.
Very early in the diplomatic career o.
the French Embassador bodily fatigue led
him to take pleasure trip ihrou2h that
most delightful portion of the globe in
cluded IL Greece and the Ionian Isles, and
the countries that lie about the Sea of
Marmora and the Bosphorous. At Athens
he fell in with Greek merchant of ele-
CANT manners and attainments, and to
whose own personal attractions was added
that of a daughter, the most beautiful
IN form and feature that the eyes of the
statesman had ever lit upon.
A Frenchman is not slow to tell bis
love. especially when joined to HAT IN
sousiance and social daring that comes Of
long life in the most polished of European
courts, and the weeks that they passed
under the golden skies Of fh8 Levant,
among the peerless Islands of the Archi-
pelaso, and in the orange and spice groves
of Marmora, were glowing with the warm
light of a true love that ran smooth as
liquid velvet.
Then came the disagrecable task of
asking papa, and the dramatic crisis of
our tale. Fhe corrtly merchant heard
the Frechman's passionate declaration in
a style considerably different from that of
the three-act drama which God~blesses-
yeu-my -chiidren and adds several pillow
cases full of gold and jewels, The eyes
of the old man were filled with tears, and
the disclosure which be insisted upon
making ran as follows:
Some two years previous, he, too,
wearied in mind and body. had started
ont for a pleasure jaunt that led him
through the Golden Horn into the city of
Constantinople. Stroling through the
slave marts one day, his eye had fallen
upon a young girl cf more ma,chless
beauty than it had ever entered into his
heart to conceive of. TIE disordered state
of her garments, dropping from her full
white neck and shoulders, NE disha7eled'
hair pouring its glossy black over cheek
ard bust, and the look of mingled terror
and anguish in her great black eyes, sgaked
all the pity and love that had lain dormant
in his heart for years, and thaNnight the
apartments of the WEALTHY Crack were lit
by the glad smile Of thsalovelyand grate-
full slave.
a year passed, and as coming age drove
passion from the merchants Blood, there
came into it great love and regard for
the Young woman Re had taken in his
household, and after no little Hesitation
and mental struggle he not only released
her from slavery, but adopted her IS his
own child, and spared no effort to 1T her
for the position that the wealth and stand
ing of her accepted father entitled her to.
1t was at this .juncturs that she met NJ.
Benedict, and it is a bright spot in that
chivalry for which France was once so
famous that these painful disclosures added
to rather than lessened his love. They
were married, and upon the death Of the
merchant who did not long survive the
loss of the slave ard daughter, the whole
of his vast foftiine was found to be willed
to Nine. Benedetti, utterly ignoring seve>
raj heirs>at-laW.
s It is that fact which has led to the ex>
posure 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. Benedict kept it out of
the courts. The overthrow of the En-
pirc, however. now allows tie law to take
its own course, and it is TO be feared that
ithe fair slave will be sliorn of most of her