Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-26
Which Did Not End happily--The Folly
which One Woman Now Regrets
IA Divorce Asked.

A marriage case has been brought
before the civil tribunal of the Seine,
in which the parish church Of Aid
gate, London, plays a most romantic
part. This case is the epiloguo of a
romance. in which little love, much
imagination and extravaganza are the
principal features. A young widow,
of noble family, bearing the title Of
Countess Mrozowicka, nee CzarnOw-
ska. languished in the depths of Bait
g%nolles, an outlying quarter OF Paris,
and aspired to replace her deceased
husband. What could she do un-
known in a large city like Paris, where
50 many ardent and tender hearts
vainly seek to meet each other? The
countess-a real countess r. seeking
that moral union for which her soul
aspired, could find no better means of
making known her loneliness than by
inserting in the Figaro, Of the LIST Of
August, 1873, the following
ADVERTISEMENT:
"A young widow, twenty. eight years
of age, Of pleasing appearance, ae-
auainted with several languages, with
au aptitude for literature, of noble
and powerful parentage, but in cOnse-
quence Of great personal misfortune
only possessing an independence and
easy position, would marry a distin-
guished and sympathetic young man
also in easy circumstances. She de-
sires nobleness, talent, natural origin
ality aud simplicity
Then follows the address and direc-
tions for correspondents. The young
countess possibly asked too much, for
she yainly searched the columns of the
Figaro for two months without finding
a reply.
A SECOND APPEAL,
more pressing, was inserted in the
same Journal on the 18th of November,
as follows:
"a young and intelligent lady, with
a predisposition for literature, indie
pendent, good-natured, seeks the
hite-blackbird, and desires to make
the acquaintance of an artist or au-
thor, a dreamer of superior mind, .
etc.
This time replies abounded, but
only one was chosen by the countess
as worthy of notice, namely, that of a
young man who had just left school,
and who lost no time in addressing
the following letter to his ideal:
Madame, what gratitude ! owe
you for this sweet letter which Yod
have deigned to address to me- Yes,
| feel it. The words come from the
heart, and Il is my heart which echoes
them. Thanks, thanks, good affec-
tionate creature, worthy of living in a
world far above our own, infected as it
is with doctrines as abiect as they are
material, and who, suffering thyself,
comes to tighten the misfortunes Of
a poet. Thanks for thy confidence.
Thanks for thy friendship-so pure,
SO beautiful, so noble. Thanks for
thy love,
0 ANGEL
who illuminates this century as
vain as it is ungrateful; this century
of Jesuits which, not content with
hiding thought under a veil, is eAdeav-
oring also TO murder intelligence BY
the aid of ignorance. The reperusa'
Of your letter has brought back cour.
age to me-inspiration-and | crieC
out to myself, Work and love Will
this woman, this angel. WHOM
God has sent upon thy path to aiC
thee in thy task. Thou art young
only nineteen years old. Well, will
her. BY her love thou canst reacl
glory, and thou wilt succeed Hi
who dares to say your friend,
Louis DELENTE.
-Four days after this
ANOTHER LETTER
followed from the. sane source:
Ny well beloved, what pleasur
have / in reading over a thousan
times thy letter so good. so passionate
of Sunday last, / find in it the proc
that thou and | are created to ador
each other, How happy am | in thi
secret sympathy and companion {
ideas-in this attraction of love whic
draws us to each other. o, my adore
angel. If thou kncwest what power til
words have upon my heart, tho
wouldst not doubt my constancy an
fidelity. How could ] leave an ang,
like thee--a woman who is my 9th,
self-for the arms Of a vulgar court,
san, were she as lascivious as Clet
patra or beautiful as Venus? Tho
knowest well it is impossible, my Sc
aphine. and that when one loves It
not for a day, for a month, or for
year it is for life, for existence, Il
eternity. | can only live for thee, |
thee and in thee.
On the 10Th of November thisyour
school boy, aged about
SIXTEEN YEARS,
married the Countess Seraphine MIRO
owicka, who brought him as a dow.
much love. twenty-eight summers al
three children. The marriage to,
place in the parish church of Aldgat
London, without any other formal
than the mutual consent Of both pa
ties. In France this does not suhic
especially when one Of them is