Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-08-01

Sea coast, climbing Switzerland or the
Dolamite country, or has gone to Spain
for her health.
"When she at last settles in Rome, as
everyone does, sooner or later; when
she has outgrown an affected preference
for Florence, though 'Ouida's' Winter
City, still thrills her with a Joy which is
half regret, she plunges into the social
fury of the Roman season, and drives
and dimes daily, finding salvation at last
in the first flush of the Italian spring.
BY this time she is surfeited with
experiences, and finds life an easy bore.
1t is rumored that she is heiress to
millions; halo sur ounds her. She is
much sought in every circle, and with
the tact of woman--if indeed wo-
nan has tact-she plays her sisters for
ali they are worth, and comes Oft at the
close of the contest as ~unruified IS q
sucking dove
"She knows everybody worth know
ing, has interviewed the crowned heads,
has been complimented by princes and
earls for clever horsemanship, or twi-
light sketches in the frosty Bots de
Boulogne.
"She rides we'll to hounds, and braves
the treacherous fields of the Campagna,
where without moving, she and her cob
might easily plunge headlong into the
wild abyss, the stronghold of the defunct
banditi.
demonstrate with her, and she takes
the wall at a leap, calling back on the
wind for you to follow; there is defiance
in her eye, exultation in her laugh, and
her bosom is shaken with the splendor
of her triumph.
delicious contradiction! The right
touch at the right moment would burst
the fiood-gates of Hysteria, and she
is still the girl with the give away
mouth.
"By this time she has danced de-
murely in the Carnival Masque at the
Grand Opera; supped with anonymous
cavalier who sought in vain to discover
her identity, and who, with a touch of
medieval chivalry, follows her carriage
to the Palazzo, where she alighted III
his very arms, and was fearfully happy
because she barely escaped being
wicked.
Her stars begin to pale. Life pals
upon her. She believes her fondest
love is unrequited. She dreams OF
converts, and PAGES her apartments
like II Gagged pantheress. 1t is ques-
ton whether she becomes reckless or
religious. She Is either at intervals,
and equally charming in each role.
IL have seen her, with exhausted
Europe at her ieet, and Egypt and the
east an affair of the last winter, cast
herself upon divan of tiger skins, and
declare the two hemispheres blank.
'She had been in spirit to the sources
of the Nile; she had again dreamed
her dream III moonit Karnak, yearned
for Osiris in the Sacred Isle, knelt at
the Holy Sepulchre, and echoed the
shrill scream of the sabre dancers Of
Jericho.
"She was coiled like the serpent
queen on a couch of leopard skins;
her plastic arms were laden with the
barbaric Jewels of the Orien; n mummy
necklace from its Theban shore; at her
girdle hung Nubian amulets of beaten
silver; and these she toyed with as she
babbled in Arabic. Iknow her armlets
of Roman gold, her Neapolitan corals
and carved tortoise shells; her Vesuvian
lavas and Florentine mosaics, her silver
filagrees OF Genoa, and the number less
gew-gaws of Venetian glass.
"She cultivates elegant superstitions
she burns pastiles and incenses; her
Bedouin Scripture bearing the name OF
Allah, her gods are the gods of Egypt.
This she declares with the hope of daZ.
zling me with brilliant heresy, and all
the while she toys with an amber rosary.
whose flashes of flame start through her
white fingers and recall her to the slopes
of Olivet, where bearded jew battered
this prize away-'the pearl of all his
| tribe
Meanwhile she is clad in garments
that fit her like a seventeen-hutton
glove. She poses from the antique
with artistic care: every angle is a re-
velation. There is not too much eau
ton in the disposal OF her faHltless
limbs.
1--WE are old friends. She is a good
fellow, with artistic instincts OF the
highest order. There is physical
luxury in graceful pose which is not
to be scorned in this tedious life.
~ know the lines of beauty; she
knows that l love them and respect
them like man. She is too feminine
not to do herself justice for my sake,
when to do otherwise were to be false
to truth. What woman is false under
the circumstances
~ presume. Have lever presumed
Possibly! For after few sharp words,
which were less biting than brilliant, if
l withdrew and passed three days OF
respite in amusing and unmurmuring
suspense, brief line comes to me, a
message that might have been dis
charged by order of major general, TO
wit; lou are forgiven. Come up and
dine as usual
"If ever get so treated, it is more
than likely that at least presumed.
"0f course, dined as usual at my
favorite Tudttorid, and my queen knew
nought Of her once faithful subject for
days thereafter.
"But the winds change, and the sea-
son, and all things that survive us.
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