The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-05-07

Ia this we'd both agree
We'd tell them to believe us
There was not room for three.
RecoIections of the Countess Guic-
cioi.
Twas living in Paris in 1874 or As, at
all events about the time that Eugene's
Sues novel of the "Juif Errant" ap-
peared. The glowing description of his
heroine, Adrienne de Cardouville's gol-
den hair, not only made auburn popu-
lar, which had hitherto been rather at a
discount because other women would
unpleasantly suggest its being red, but
brought out with successful self-asser-
ton, even the carroty locks which up to
this time had been kept Sn the back
ground or had sought concealment of
hair dye. I was walking just about the
beginning of the twilight hour, with
lady on my arm, when young damsel,
as I thought, passed us, accompanied
by her cavalier. Her profuse reddish
golden hair hung down below her we'll
developed bosom. Notwithstanding
her embonpoint I should have judged
her to be between eighteen and two-spd-
twenty, and I remarked to my fair COM
panion, "There goes a Cardouville girl
who ought to be the height of the fash
ion" "Girl, indeed" said she, with
toss of her head "don't you know who
that is ? That is the Guiccioli. She is
As years old if she is a day" Shortly
after I met her at the house of Monsieur
and Madame Sierra. On closer inspec-
ton she looked much older than I had
taken her to be, and though she must
have been nearer 45 than 40, did not
look 80 years of age. Byron in one of
his letters, writes, in reference to her g.:
{" I have fallen in love with red-headed
woman ;" but her glorious, indeserib
able hair was really of that hue never
found but in the south of Europe, rare
ly there, and most frequently in the
north OF Italy, where it is derived from
the Lombard blood, and which is truly
designated as golden-the hair which
the ancient Greeks ascribed to Apollo
and Homer to his Achilles. Though
far from being brilliant, though in fact
Intellectually rather below than above
the average of women, there was an un-
accountable fascination about her. Some
one attributed this to her being "i in
tensely feminine, and said of her that
though what she did might be uncon-
ventional and improper, and though
what she said might not be sensible, yet
that she could not do or say anything
that was not graceful even if she tried.
Her liaison with Byron was the glory
of her life, and she was never weary of
talking of it. Though she never cared
about or understood his poetry, she was
in love with his memory, and gloried in
his glory because it was his. Though,
like every italian woman, she had her
fits of religious devotion-superstition
still lingering where faith is dead-nev-
er could she be persuaded that there
was anything wrong about their inter.
course, and when an eminent French
divine once spoke to her on the subject,
she told him, with flashing eyes, that
:" she had enjoyed her heaven already,
and never would she give up her recol'
lection of it for another, even though
everlasting" Subsequently she visited
England, where her reception as By
ron's mistress was the greatest tribute
ever paid to genius. All the proprietiet
or pruderies of conventionality fell be
fore that name. The highest and mos
virtuous ladies in the land threw oper
their doors to her but, strangest of al
Lady Byron herself invited her to visi
her. which she did. Some years after
the fashionable world of Paris wa
astounded by an astonishing event
There was certain marquis de Boissy
of illustrious lineage, large hereditar,
wealth, and unsullied reputation. Fl
was considered the highest referee in al
matters of honor; his appreciation of
statue or picture, his applause of a
opera, an actor, or singer insured it
success. In the Chamber of Peers b
was an eccentric legitimatist orator
permitted to say what no one els
would have been. For years all th
matchmaking mothers in the faubour
had been trying in vain to capture hin
:, as the most eligiale parti in Francs
, AS he was now a good deal past middl
age, all hope of trapping him was give
up, when 10 came the announeemel
that he had married the Guieeioh Z
] was accustomed always to introduce b
, with pride as my wife, the Guiceiol
I Lord Byron's mistress. " They live
D happily together for many years, al
r until he died, in 1866.
A GIRL Of thirteen was married tc
boy Of sixteen in Omaha last week. T.
E united wealth of the young eouT
amounts TO S275, 600