The Morning herald., 1876-09-16
Bellows lIsl,der| y yclls !!
now LOVE CoHQUERRD PRIDE.
CONTINUED FROM YrsrnRDAr's nnir1os,

..rrv in your womb. and then sey y you
S.s;ya G to become free while your child
% ! condemned to the infamy Of illegiti-
macy?" .,,:.. I
ror. bursting into food Of tears and the
, hole audience, weeping in sympathy
With her, Joined in the exclamation Of mo,
pog'
.hs ca,se. The judges declared that the
ma marriage was valid according TO the con-
,rsct t IN which I had signed my true
name name alleging also that our situations were
MT sufficiently unequal to authorize the
dissolution Of our union. But they wisely
decraed, in order not to. leave the adyen-
turer too much cause for triumph, that my
wife should be permitted to reside in the
convent which she had chosen for her asy-.
linn an INJUNCTION was laid on the hus-
hand under certain penalties, neither to
reclaim, pursue, or molest her in any nall-
ner whatever; that the child should be
bsptized under his name, but that he should
at no time have right over i.s education.
The rest Of the sentence turned on objects
Of detail more interesting to gentlemen o,
the long robe than the historian. Aurora
left the audience in triumph. The crowd
escorted her to the convent, browning he,
with eulogiums for the tender sacrifice
which she had just made to the infant with
which she was pregnant.
Such was the result Of this celebrated
trial, during the decision of which ] was
little at my ease. Obliged to hide myself
from every eye, / took, advantage Of my
not being known to glide among the crowd;
no one conjecturing that the bellows-
mender, Of whose history they heard SO
much, wore decent clothes, fine linen, and
was parsonage in no mean circumstances.
The most ridiculous storie, were fabricated
respecting nay absence and my marriage.
sometimes endeavored to laugh with the
rest but was horribly abashed to find that
even those who amused themselves most al
the expense of Aurora were virulent de-
claimers against what they called my in
fanny. Agreeably to the dictates Of my own
feelings, and in conformity to the advice
Of friends, I determined to quit Lyons,
and employ my funds in some other place,
where my name and history were unknown.
| made choice of Paris for my residence.
where, amid an immense population,
could most easily escape observation, an
also where could employ my capital 70
most advantage. There the poor bellows
mender, with hundred thousand livres,
and the credit of his friends at Lyons,
established commercial house, which
succeeded beyond all hi, hopes. l was,
during five years, the favorite of fortune,and
my conscience renders me this testimony,
that l had no reason to blush at any ofmy
speculations.
Ny correspondence with Lyons was
active. A happy accident gave me the
means Of rendering essential service to one
Of the first banking houses of that great
city. The proprietors testified their
boundless gratitude towards me, and
pressed me 80 earnestly to pay them visit,
that the desire of yielding to their solicita-
tions, together with the secret wish Of
breathing the same air as Aurora, led me
to accept the invitation. / made my ap-
pearance in Lyons with carriages, servants,
and fine clothes, none O. which were at
this time borrowed. Fortune had 20 sue
cessfully labored for me during five years,
mat had the means Of supporting mag
nifcent style of living.
MY old friends scarcely recognized me !;
1t may therefore be imagined that it was
not very difficult task to escape the pen
e'ration Of my new acquaintances. With
out appearing 10 annex the slightest i'm
poertances to the subject I sometimes talked
Of the celebrated trial which had interested
the city OF Lyons five years before, and ter
minated my question by cursorily inquir-
ing what had become Of Aurora and her
family. | learned that her father had
lately died, that losses on the one hand and
ostentation on the other, joined to the
sums ne had lavished on the education Of
hls aughter, had left his affairs so embar-
1assed, that Aurora, at his decease, found
nerself almost without resource, and in
some measure dependent on the benevo-
lence Of the abbess Of the convent where
sne mad taken refuge. Twas also informed,
'aat' although whenever Aurora appeared,
sle " was still the object Of general applause,
sae conducted herself with SO much propri-
eG, That she was not less respected than
sumlred. The bellows-mender, it was
observed, had suffered her to remain tran
qull since the trial, without attempting to
reclaim e ain his lost rights. SIS
!, ldld not listen to these recitals without
sne NEST lively emotion. During FIVE
years years residence in the capital, young and
ambitious, as we'll as deeply enamoured of
= aurora, the ardour ofmy efforts to acquire
s, fortune which might give me the right Of
reS;la1lm,ng m;1 her l loved, had absorbed my
nn ulna but my abode at Lyons, and the
unsupported testimony Of all with whom I
sOnversed sua in favor Of my wife, awakened
Every latent sentiment Of tenderness in my
uJsom. The image of Aurora, of her
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