The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-12-06

ARE YOU WE'LL, eAcHETTE X
Nile. de Boucour was in a considera-
Biz t5liandary. And she had never been
III such i thing as a ouandary till she be-
came efthused over some Americans in
Paris, their delightful chic, their ravish-
IND sang froid. their piuuant extensions
81 les convenances. She at that time
\ told tia compte. her brother. that she
feared the ancien regime had become
passe, while she was confident that she
belonged to New France under certain
conditions, to the New World under any
circumstances. OF course this greatly
shocked the conpte, and his friends to a
man blamed HIM for having permitted
Natalie SO much latitude of association
with the American ladies and their pc
culiar IDEAS OF the eternal fitness Of
fhines.
When Natalie met Vassar girl, in a
costume BIZ Felix. who told her that she
worked for her living, the die was cast.
Natalie was poor herself. the little dia-
monds beque he'd her by her grandaunt
representing all the wealth she possessed,
and the complies unique speculations on
the Bourse made even those tentative at
times.
She determined to emulate the Vassar
girl, wear toilets BY Felix, aud earn her
own living. She knew she dare not APP
uroach the compte with this determine
ton, so she watched some American
girls to find out the most effective way
to cut loose from old, if picturesque, as
eociations.
When one lovely Young thing, with
ewes the color OF heaven and cheeks like
tender young rose leaves, told her she
had travelled around the world AL By
herself and NOT q shadow of harm had
happened to her. Natalie watched her
chance and went TO Tiffanv's to sell her
arandaunt's auasi-historic diamonds She
WIS told that the stones were only large
Enough to be used in collar buttons. and
Was referred to dealer with generous
type Of nose, who offered her what
seemed to her to be a ridiculously small
sum Of money for the jewels. But the
Vasser girl worked for her living, and
here was money sufficient to carry Nata-
& lie To New York and something over; be-
sides, the Jewels were ridiculously small
also. She let the diamonds go, wrote
letter to her brother that caused him
& 70 tear his hair and expunge her name
from the family register and become the
laughing stock Of the Bourse for abad
quarter Of an hour, and Natalie sailed
tor America and freedom, carrying a
handbag and cage, IN which hnttered
her pet canary.
believe there was something else that
actaated her in this stage Of her mad
career, and that was that lie eoInpte
had told her he intended to arrange
marriages between her and the old
Marquis d Epnvllle, whose head shook
when he walked, who wore horribly
large white artificial teeth, who drank
the delectably green absinthe openly on
the boulevard and called Natalie INA
femme.
At any rate. Natalie sailed for the
states, and landing in New York went
to beautiful hotel that almost took
away her breath by its charges In New
York she met many of those she had
known ia the colony at Paris. But. not
strange to say, they were not quite SO
friendly when they heard under what
circumstances she had come to our hos
pitab1e shores, and one woman and
mother threatened to write to the compile.
Then the yassar girl. who it turned
out earned her own living by tying her
papa s white cambria cravats of evenings,
sor which task she received a yearly
z stipend which ran away into four figures,
did not ask her to the house on the
avenue. and informed her that for her
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