The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-10-12
MADAME L'AMBASSADRICE,
THE RUDE OLD MIN SIZE MET II'
B41DIIEIlT.
How the Wife Of an Ambassador at
Paris Resented the Advances Of e.
fashionable Man and tho Sequel
Thereto.

post, tho ambassador, with his
pretty wife, paid q flying visit to
tho wators of Badheim. The sovcr-
eign to whom the ambassador was
accredited was at Badheim, and had
received the new plcnipotentiary's
credentials.
1t was ton o'clock on the day
after their arrival when tho Mar
quise arose; nevertheless she in
sisted Oh taking hcr first bath be
fore breakfast. People we're leaving
the building as she entered it, and
when she loft it everybody WAS at
breakfast. Tho road leading from
the town to the spring was abso-
lutely deserted.
A walk after ones bath is tho
correct thing, and the NIarquisc
liked walking, 50 after reaching the
town she turned back, and oven
wandered aside to row of little
booths beneath tho trees, where
were exposed for salo tho special pro
ducts of the neighborhool, gewgaws
ugly enough, and horrible caskets,
things not to be looked at at homo,
but to be bought at any place whoro
one has spent week, though as
rule the stereotypod inscription,
"Souvcnir de Badheim," only recalls
things that would have been quite
as pleasant anywhere else.
Nine. dc N. was examining neck
lace of rock crystal and turquoises
and a casket Of lapislazui, when
gentleman stopped before the same
booth. The shopkcepcr went to-
wards him obsequiously, but with
percmptory gesture tho new Gus
tomor woyed him off.
He might have been from fifty
live to sixty years Of age, the new
customer his eye was yet keen,
though he had gray hair and here
and there wrinkle; he WAS hands
somely dressed and had an air of
distinction. He watched tho lady
with undisguised intorost: but,
bless you, she is used to that, and
when one appears in q satin giIct
embroidered with gay flowers,
Charles II. hat. step-laddcr-hecled
boots and cornucopic skirts, ono
cannot expect to escape being OBJ.
served.
''Take the necklace to the hotel"
she finally said ; then turning where
the casket lay on the showcase, she
continued: "That's rather pretty
what's'-when the new customer
picked it up and presented it to her
with respectful bow and the
words:
t'Permit me, madame, to oflev you
this souvenir of Badheim it will re-
mind you Of our first meeting"
She looked at him chillingly with
out speaking, and he smiled benevo-
lently as he still held the casket out
to her, and added:
IL see, madame, that you do not
recognize me, and yet I have had
the honor Of seeing you once before
Mt Paris"
With a look moro of surprise
than of anger she swept to the door,
looking him full in the face, how~
ever, to show him that the second
attack had failed.
He followed her out into the road
followed her closely.
"Not SO fast, madame, I beg of
you,' said he; "my legs aro not
what they were twenty years ago.
Will you not, then, suffer me to
CRAFTY the passionate desire I have
to make your acquaintance" (This,
in tone of the greatest courtesy,
and as if his request had not been
indignantly impertinent.)
Having followed her for q little
distance, he quickened his pace and
walked on at her side.
She stopped short. SIS this
stupid pleasantry to last much
aonger?" she said: "are there no
policemen in this peculiar country 2"
"You would have me arreste |?
Pray, look at me, madame. Is my
face that of q man who would wish
any one harm? Do you not recall
it7 Think now"
She had O. very vague idea of
having seen him somewhere, but
where or when----"It is none of my
businesas sir" she said, "to read
your cOnfter1nnca. but can undar.