Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-01
NINE. ROLAND BONAPARTF.
The sudden Ueath of she Rich and |
Happy wife Of Prince PIerre's |
Som
london Truth.

parte, nee Blanc, startled by its sudden
ness all her friends and relatives. But it
was in the nature of things that a fearful
| catastrophe should have come upon her
The fates have only a very limited
amount of happiness to dole out to the
human race, and they do their best to
divide it equitably. If they accord ideal
bliss to any individual or family group it
is only for a short time, and on the con
ditiOn that some great disaster is to be
| experienced at the end of the halcyon
period Dives did net go to the place of
punishment because he was neglectful of
the beggar, but because he Jared sump-
tuously every day and was clad in purple
and fine linen. Ladies who have beauty,
head, heart, and enjoy fortunes gifts to
the end, are either married to fearful ugly
| husbands, or have i'll conditioned chill
dren who are an eyesore to them, or have
no children at all when they feel them
selves competent to bring up any num-
Der.
Nine. Roland Bonaparte set up as a
householder with 23000,0 00f., and the
sure and certain hope of far larger sum
at her mothers death. She has since
come into the fortune that she expected,
and had the interest of about two millioL
sterling to live upon. The husband of
her choice was young, well educated,
was said to be the handsomest man in
the French army, and had endured bitter
poverty, which enabled him to appre
ciate his wife's generosity to himself, his
mother and his sister Nine. Roland
BOnaparte was not a paragon of feminine
loneliness, but she was very pretty and
charmingly mign0nne. Her hair was
of silken texture, and of unusual
length and thickness. 1t was a
source of great pleasure to her to
arrange it, and to Roland to see
it when they dined en- famille, after it
had been braided the whole day to make
it wavy, falling back loose over the
shoulders In dress her taste was natu-
rally bad. AS a girl she overdressed;
but as soon as she was married, her
mother in.law, the Princess Pierre Bona
parte, nee Rifflard, took her in hand, and
set off to the best advantage her good
points. Princess Pierre was originally a
mantua maker, and understands well
her old trade Nine. Roland found
happiness in making a liberal use of her
money. She was brought up among
L
will not judge, perhaps, with as great
severity as SNUG, respectable Pharisees
who make a virtue of not SHINING when
there is no temptation. At Monte
Carlo and Homburg she was used to
seeing things done in liberal way
and to an intelligent form of sel1shness.
All the millions that she inherited were,
therefore, a source of great and con
tinual enjoyment. Her status of Impe-
rial Princess, which was usurped, af
forded her as much qualification as if it
were legitimate, Nobody about her even
let her feel that she had no part or lot in
the imperial dignities which the
first Emperor conferred upon
his family. Pierre was only
of the civil family, he was
Bonaparte, but not Napoleon. Never
theless, his son and daughter-in-law or
namented their plate and the panels of
their carriages with the Napoleonic eagle
and bees, Roland's Colonel was cap In
hand to him, and addressed him as Mon
Prince, and the Young wife as Mime.
la Princesse." Her naGitre dhOtel was
instructed to call out in announcing din
ner, Mime la PgllcesSe est Ser0ie.
Nothing could be more charming than
the dinpers of this really happy com
pany. Roland was glad to see his mill
tarv chums about him, and all his friends
were cordially welcomed by his wife
Edmond Blanc was at all their little par
ties. They never gave large spreads,
because, since their marriage, they have
always been in deep mourning. There
were the eratrain and gayetY of youth
For some months Lieut.. Roland and
Nine. Bonaparte resided in small villa
near st. Cloud, where his regiment was
garrisoned. They had been quartered at
FaIaise and Palaiseau. Assiduous atten-
ton to military duties and the excite
ment of meving from one garrison town
to another gave zest to opulenee Mime.
Roland was under the impression that
she was "roughing IL" because she had
to live in country hotels with tiled floors.
The handsome Lieutenant was her beau
ideal. and he never felt that he was a
Prince Consort.
The day on which Nine. Roland was
called away appeared to her, she wrote