The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, 1877-01-11

ing the English metropolis, he passed
his first night at Covent Garden hotel,
where his commanding figure and martial
dress created hutter among the servants
in the kitchen.
"Look at his black cap, with its long
bag and great feather, aud the monstrous
saber at his side," cried the waiter.
"And / never seed such handsome
blue eyes," added the maid "and he
spoke so kindly when he bade me stir the
fire, and when he throwed off his great
fur cloak, he showed glittering star"
Finding the next morning, after pay
ing his bill, that be had only few shil-
ings left, Tbaddeus sailed out to look
for lodgings more suited to his purse.
1t was cold and stormy November Sun
day, and kindly old woman, to whom
he showed some little civilities, observ-
ing him uneasy at the inquisitive gaze
of the bystanders, yentlred to invite
him to take shelter from the snow within
. her house. He accepted the invitation,
and the good Mrs. Robson was not a
little startled when her imposing guest,
learning she had rooms to let, offered
himself as her lodger. However, Mr..
Constantine, as he now chose to call Mlu-
self, was soon established upon the hum
BILE first floor at No. st. Martins lane.
A slow fever now seized him, but he
would not call an apothecary, having no
money to pay him. At last Mrs. Robson
summoned Mr.. Vincent, by whose skill
and her nursing her lodger recovered.
To defray the debts incurred during his
illness, he parted with his fur-hned
pelisse for fraction of its value, and
sold a gold pencil case to very civil
pawnbroker. The eight guineas thus OBJ
tanned settled the bills against him, and
left small surplus. Hoping to increase
this, he executed half dozen landscape
drawings in India ink, but the inso-
lence of the printseller was SO intolerable
that Thaddeus refused to accept the
guinea offered for them.
The only earthly comfort now enjoyed
by the distressed exile was the company
and caresses of Mrs. Robson's little
grandson, William; but even this was
snatched away, for the child contracted a
fatal disease and died III Thaddeus' arms.
The afflicted grandmother was without q
farthing to pay the medical and funeral
expenses, and her generous lodger
pawned his sword, pistols and sleeve
buttons to relieve her necessities.
Passing Drury Lane Theater that eve
ming, he saw Pembroke Somerset enter,
in full dress, gay and laughing. with two
ladies. mvoluntarily he calculated {:
"Somerset -
But his friend had disappeared behind
green door. All his old affection re-
vived, and he sent g letter to Somerset,
but received no reply. Another he left
in person at his friends residence. The
two were returned without word.
Finding General Butzou, vino had
saved his life at the burning of Villanow,
wandering homeless in the street, the
impoverished Thaddeus unhesitatingly
assumed the support of that worthy but
now enfeebled man, picture dealer af-
fording hm the means by taking each
week a guinea's worth of his drawings.
One evening in March, Thaddeus res
cued delicate woman from a rutfianly
assault. Accompanying her home, she
insisted that he should enter He did
so, and his hostess, Lady Adeliza Tine
mouth, and her sprightiy companion,
Miss Maria Egerton, entertained linn
with the greatest courtesy, though not
suspecting the real identity of Mr.. Con-
stantine. Their praises of the handsome
stranger excited the curiosity OF the
young and beautiful Lady Sara Roos,
who. meeting Mr.. Constantine when he
called again upon Lady Tmemouth, re-
solved to ensnare the pale and highbred
foreigner. Without meaning any un-
faithfubess to her absent and unloved
husband, she sighed for a melancholy
and romantic lover, and Thaddeus ap-
peared to her to be the very one Of whom
She was in search. Pursuing Slis design,
she presently found herself the victim Of
passion for Mr.. Constantine which he
did not at all return.
The friendship of Lady Tinemouth
was both delicate and sincere, and
through her good offices Thaddeus OBJ
tanned as pupils in German the daush-
ters of Lady Dundas, who were rich,
pretentious and ill-bred. Euphemia,
the younger, was very pretty, how
ever, and, like Lady Sara Roos,
presently set herself to captvate Mr..
Constantine. Her caprices merely
served to amuse or annoy him, but they
greatly excited the jealousy of Lady
Sara, who now found herself perpetually
tormented by her unhappy passion.
Nor was Lady Tinemouth less wretch
ed, though from g far different cause.
h,,oho,,,1 41a Eo,l Of TS,n-,,n,,fh
not content with abandoning her and
openly transferring his affections to an
other, had even the cruelty to teach her
son and daughter to bite their own
mother! In relating her sad history she
incidentally spoke of her husbands Gv-
ing in ITO in Italy under the assumed
name Of Sackville.
At this mention Thaddeus could scarce
" hide his CONSERVATION. Was it posi-
sible that he owed his existence to such
O brutal and heartless man? This dig
coyery of an unworthy father, and the
unhappy condition of his friend Butzou,
who had now become a confirmed though
harmless lunatic, caused Thaddeus
misery not Iessened by the frequent pet
ty insults Of the indolent trifers and
fashionable butterflies who frequented
the Dundas mansion. But among them
OF last appeared Miss Beaufort, whose
generous nature attracted the attention
no less than her remarkable loveliness.
The night before he first met her he had
ventured into burning house and res
cued sleeping infant, which he threw
into a post chaise for safety. In this
chaise was Mary Beaufort with her aunt,
NIrs Snmerset Learning these facts