The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-09-10

sure you cannot object to me having the
honor Of it, provided you keep the sub
stance. / beg that whatever you may
1tank, you will say nothing and especially
| aorsts nothing about me, unless it be
something likely to advance me. il
was my misfortune, not my fault, that
was born in country not congenial to
my desires. Here am completely in my
sphere. ~. l am surprised you do
not see the advantages Of my position,
compared with that Of the daughters OF
of the other people of Baltimore
and that you permit the chattering
of enviOus people to influence you
:. Who ever had better t'ffers9 never
would marry without rank, or God knows
l might have got money enough by mar.
rage. =. Adieu my dear sir. I am
gong to dress for ball at Lady Con
dague's and am then obliged to 60 to
one at Gen. Trivin's. expect the Ameri-
cans in Europe who cannot go out write
lies abou. those who can. I beg this let
ter may not be shown to Robert, as he
never Keeps anything to himself, and that
you will consider the improperly OF
writing anything except what will pro.
duce good effect in this country.
Poor thing! The deserted wife of a
low-born adventurer talking about the
advantages of her position! Her sub
sequent letters to her father, scolding,
insOlent harangues, flaunt in his averted
face the rank and. title of her acquaint-
ahces; 80 that now, locked at from this
distance of time and space, when all con
cerned are dead and buried and forgot
ten, it reminds one of nothing SO much
as the vagaries Of wretched lunatic in
her conner of mad-house, waving about
her few gaudy rags, and crying, "See if I
am not tile Queen of Sheba.''' 49,,
Her father writes to reassure her re.
gard1ng the secrecy of her lie tters, and
adds:
"To be candid with you, would have
been ashamed to expose them to any one
else. = What will the world think
of woman who had recently followed
her mother and sister to the grave, had
quit her fathers house. where duty and
necessity called for her attentions as the
only female of the family left, and
thought proper to abandon all to seek
for admiration in foreign countries; sure
ly the most charitable construction that
can be given to such conduct is to sup.
pose that it must proceed in some de-
grees from insanity.'
In 1920 she began schem1ng to get
some Of the Bonapartes' money for her
son. But while talking to the members
OF that family in the most honeyed words.
she talks about them thus:
81 cannot say that I have the best re-
lance on that family, although l am dis
posed to reciprocate their kind words
and receive their offers of friendship
without being deceived by either. =.
The Bsnapartes are all alike, very affec-
tionate in words, but without the least
intention CT parting with farthing.
The letters from the boy are suggestive
When he Is Is and she is IS, he says:
Mamma goes out nearly every night to
party or a ball. She say Us she looks full
ten years younger than she is, and if she
had not so large son she could pass for
20 years old. See has dancing master,
and takes three lessons week, and has
done SO for the last six months; is every
day astonished at the progress she makes,
and is fully determined to dance next
winter. l had never any idea OF
spending my life on the continent; on the
contrary, as soon as my education is fin
ished; which will not take me over two
years longer, shall hasten over to Amer
lea, which have regretted ever since I
left it. .:
Madame Bonaparte set her heart on
marrying her son to his cousin, the daugh-
ter of Joseph Bonaparte; and loos ed upon
any one who opposed it as IAN idiot and
an enemy"
will never consent to his marrying
any one but person of great wealth. He
knows I can but recognize marriage of
ambition and interest, and that his name
and his rank require it.
AS to marriages in America; they are
simple acts of youthful folly and mex
perlence. People marry some
poor young woman from the caprice Of
the moment, and consign themselves to
her insipid society and the torment Of
bringing up family of children.
The marriage, however, fell through
probably because the young lady was, as
w "AS WIN, III olAC n uWdIl, duu VCI y
ugly" The son disappointed all his vain
! mothers vain hopes, and married Bal.
| timore girl. She was Miss Williams
but her name is not given in the book
It is easy to imagine the mothers rage
| and the terrible expression OF it she visit.
ed upon her poor father. The most viru.
lent of these letters were suppressed
when the book was printed, but have
since been published in this paper, az
will be hereafter mentioned. Even ir
| the book we are favored with few choice
specimens. Here is one, with only ont
word held back, -one cannot help won
dering what the adjective could have
been which the editor does not dare tt
print:
Had my means been more ample, not ever
the + + 4 conduct adopted toward me during
| The whole process of this marriage could have
made me stoop to the mean revenge of sup
pressing the pecuniary allowance TO child
! but believe every one who has not mad,
hatred and contempt Of me systematic pro
ceeding must confess that the time has now
arrived for me to attend more losely to my
! interest than my relations have done for me.
| Therefore she draws the prlncely al
lowance OF 5000 year she had been Civ
ing him, piece of economy which car