The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-11

place of Mcmahon on the pretense that she
was to join hunting party. Arrived there
she found a gay party, but it was announced
that the hunt would not come off The peo-
nle were the immediate associates of the
Prince, and the poison OF adulatiOn was in
stlled into the too credulous ear of the
lovely woman; and the effect which her
superlative beauty had made upon the heart
of the most amiable and accomplished indi-
vidual of the kingdom was painted in
such rapturous colors that vanity, the most
powerful, and at the same time the most
dangerous weakness of the female sex, arose
with all its mastery in her heart, and the
victory was half won before the despoiler
came to rob the shell of its pearl.
After a time the Prince drove ND as
though by accident, and was with difficulty
prevailed upon to alight. 1t is unnecessary
to paint the picture OF her subjugation to
the Establishments of pretended love- she
became the favorite of the Prince. One
morning when he sat at breakfast with his
beautiful companion the Prince began talk
ing of "once-beoved favorite," because
there is something i'll your shape and Inquire
in the very form of your countenance, anu
in your very manners, that strongly reminds
me-of her."
"Was she allied to nobility" asked Mrs.
M
"Of her immediate station in life" an
swered the Prince, II know but little; she rep
resented herself, and was known to the fash
ionable circles, as the daughter of a respecta-
BILE Yorkshire gentleman of moderate for
tune; but l frequently heard her speak of
her two sisters one of whom she depictured
as far surprising herself in personal attrac-
lions. What that sister must have been in
point of beauty | cannot pretend to say, but
I will so far confess that | considered Louisa
Howard as one of the most perfect beauties
had ever seen"
Cd I've M
while an ashy paleness came over her coun-
tenance
"And what of her?'' asked the Prince ''Did
you know her?'
Gracious Cod" exclaimed Mrs. NJ, scarce
ly able to maintain herself 'and have l then
been sacrificing myself to the seducer OF my
own sisterP'
Louisa Howard your sister," exclaimed
the Prince, sit cannot be"
ooh, il is all too true" exclaimed Mrs. NJ.
81 had forgotten many things which now
rush to my memory to show me my guilt.
When Louisa became victim to your STRAIT
egems, l was then but just bursting into
life, I heard the whispers of her dishonor,
but never to this moment did l know the
name of him who brought it upon her. For
her weep not, for she is happy. 1t is for
myself l weep. l stand now dishonored, a
guilty, wretched creature-shut out from fu-
Cure happiness loathing to myself-the
Herlleu ScOrn anu nalreu OF maj lGndnl
world. Henceforth there is no desert
too dark for me, no solitude too
deep. l shudder when 1 think of it,
that to my sisters seducer, to him who
dragged her like lamb to be inundated on
the altar of his unhallowed passion, to him
have l now sacrificed all that is dear, all that
is valuable to woman. From this moment
we part to meet no more-seek out another
victim, and add another crime to your already
overloaded soul"
They did part to meet no more; this beau
tiful woman disappeared on sudden from
the world of fashion, like one of those corus-
cations of heaven, bright and glorious for a
moment, when ON a sudden not a trace of it
is to be seen-lost, annihilated forever
What the memoir says of the man as the
Prince will apply to the man as the King:
That sense of shame, which operates even on
ordinary minds, formed part of his moral
characterize commenced his life as he closed
it, vain, glorious, profllgate and extravaganza he
seemed not to feel nor TO understand the duties
of his sGatiOn-all his qualifications were selfish,
all his indulgencies sensual. Real friends he mad
nOne-but of needy dependents he had crowd,
and 1.-THE most finished gentleman of Europe"
was content TO reign over palace occupied by
none but cOurtesans and parasites. Education,
which corrects and mOdif1es the passions of
other men, appeared to have no other tendency
than to confirm and siren CITIZEN his In all their
plenitude and force. The moral beauty of viz
tue, emasculated in the festivities OF vice, and
the debaucheries of a harem possessed, i'll his
eyes for pure and Innocent forms, everything
meretTlcious about HIM; innocence sunk
abashed in his presence, aud modesty turned
from his gaze.