Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-06-08

happiness, he raised his lorgnette. Oh,
happnessl abe is most beautiful
womanl and the student the most ia
vored of mortals. for she holds in her
lovely hand his fifth boquet, and sends
him smile borrowed from the angels
But at the moment when his happiness
would seem complete, great Heavenl
hisfglass fell from his hand, his face
passed through all the colors of the
rainbow, and he fell back upon the
scat, burning with anger and mortid
catonl In the beauty which raised
him to the third heaven, he recognized
Thunder! The flower girl of "
Street. in person.
Thus, the proofs which promised to
lead to so much happiness, only dis
closed an atrocious pecuniary imposi-
tion. The beautiful deceiver had in
duced him to buy five boquets of her
at twenty francs each, and the unfort-
innate student found himself hundred
francs out of pocket, of which part
was borrowed money.
But the skillful domino was not sat
ished with this; she had not speculat-
ed for so little as a hundred francs by
any means. At the moment when the
discomfited student uttered the above
exclamation he was surprised to hear
it repeated with nine echoes. Turning
he beheld in the surrounding boxes
nine young gentlemen, their faces
flushed with shame and Indignation
like his own, and darting very flashing
eyes upon the balcony to the right.
He cOmprehended at once how the
fascinating impostOr had practiced the
same deception upon all. The same
bOquet had each time been purchased
by the ten dupes, and the willy mask
had realized the nice little sum Of a
thousand francs.
Gentlemen" said Prosper, to his
;Onireres, 'Our cause is the same; let
our vengeance be the same also. We
will meet next year"
Nj right" exclaimed the nine con-
spirators, exchanging cards, "next
year, and, like "William Tell" in the
scene Of "the oath," they quilted the
balcony with grasp Of the hand.
We will pass over year, which
brings us again to the seasOnOf masked
balls.
Impatient for revenge the ten vic.
Tins of the past year first attempted,
each one successively, to win the heart
Of the beautiful impOstGr; but, appar,
emily, her heart was already occupied.
and one after anothermet with failure
The tair florist seemed to have forgot
ten all, and to be entirely devoted to
her business, when, on the day of the
last opera ball, groom in elegant liv-
cry presented himself at her house,
"Five bouquets of twenty francs
each for Madame the Baroness of
N" And one of the highest names
of the metropolis lattered the ear of
the hower.girl.
"Madame, the baroness, will send for
these bouquets" added the groom, "and
you will send the bill tomorrow to her
hotel"
Half an hour after the bouquets
/, were finished just as another groom in
livery entered the store:--
, "Five bouquets for madame, the
Countess of R, who will send fol
them this evening"
"Very we'll" said the delighted flow
er merchant. And she already counted
her profits while arranging the flowers
An hour after came u third order fol
Ma anne the MarchiOness of V;
fourth for Madame the Duchess o.
K; and so on, until the enchanted
: bouquet:ere had added to her list o
customers ten of the first names o
; Paris. "GoOdl" said she, to herself, %
thousand francs today. Now l cal
afford a handsome bouquet to taxi
with me to the masked ball"
At midnight she repaired to III
opera house with light heart. Blu
what was her surprise, upon entering
the room, to behold her fifty bouquet
l in the hands of fifty dominoes.
"GoOd Ileaven| thought she, re
) cmling Il step or two, "all the grea
. ladies' OF Parls are at the ball to night
But she very soon discovered, to he
+ great dlsmay, that the great ladies'
= were little 2risettes, and asad present.
. melV htsheu across her lnlhu whll
y Iney ea.l'eteu III clLcio a%,ouhu % m iel
i Maoh sliSe''e .s was was @O'enteu it py d , cav
= lleL, anu 'he poor lloilsO lo.'iiu l,eisel ns,
subjected 10 tne seVeresC Iluicu''
y AIone, III 'le hiiusI oi hundred al
to ha l., iooa,o H ~ aoainot b bor m and Oh Sh
q ,,,,,, w % soraLt an % oennrt',nitr to- 20 ro ro,;r m
h For % on Is hour sba ' wao fornad 70 ~ pema;,
. NJ narl, @ % for tha T mott o cutt;n, ] sorcasm,
l. son wben sbe managed to ascane
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