Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-02-18

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You must be from the northern
country to brave such night as this?"
Yes. l am from Nantes, In
Brittany"
~ know that country. You must
tell me the story of you misfortune"
"Oh, it was an officer who LED me
astray."
"And are you sorry for it?"
81 can answer you that 1 am" Tier
voice took flavor, and JUNCTION that l
had not before remarked "Oh, yes
indeed: my sister is respectfully estAo-
lished at present, but as for me-
And how did you come to Parls?
1.-THE officer who ruined me, and
whom I detest, abandoned me. l was
forced to fv from the indignation OF my
mother. Another protector presented
himself and brought me to Paris. he
! left me; third, with whom L nave
Just been living three years, succeeded
MIN.
EUGENE CLARY.
Auglo-Saxon prejudices would hardly
agree to receiving the rest OF this
realistic "reminiscences of the great
Emperor, but it must be borne In nina
that the letter was written when he was
eighteen years old.
The affair ended with this platonic In
terchange, and the impoverished young
soldier went on his way musing. Day,
date and circumstance are given, with
judicial painstaking to prove the Adde'S
cent Napoleon continent as monk. de
was too busy to think of love, and too
moor TO be immoral. The needs OF life,
rather than the passion of love, drove
him to ask the hand Of his sister-in-law,
Eugene Clary-a demoselle OF fourteen.
He was encouraged by the little maid
and his sister-ln-law, .JoseDh's vile, put
the father sternly rebutfed bis suit.
lone Bonaparte in the family, "he CURLY
declared, ais enough" 1t was matter
of form for the poverty driven soldier,
heartbreak for the girl, who seems TO
have really loved her half-hearted
sutton. The girl, however, made him
passion, and, curiously enough, In her
began that long series OF tritling Incl
dents which in the end tethered the
limbs OF the giant and finally brought
him to mis- fall. For 1t seems that
kindly spot remained in the dtscom-
flied sutor's heart for the young girl.
In the future, when she became the
wife of Bernadotte, It was her influence
that checked Napoleon's wise purpose
of Furnishing a lieutenant, frequently
both insubordinate and treacherous,
and, as history records, finally chief
factor in Frances overthrow at the bat
tie of Leipsic.
No woman touched his life at any
point thereafter until the whiriglg OF
chance brought him face to faca with
Josephine. Here the author reverses all
that has been hitherto written or limited
of Gen. Beauhainass widow. She ar
ranged for the first meeting, and set the
mise en- scene, with all the sordid calcu-
lation of an Aspasia. ThenceTorward
the volume-a bulky one-is prose
idyll of the great warriors love for Jo-
sephine. whose character comes out OF
this volume so scaritied-blistered
| disclosures of treacherous coQuetry,
most mercenary caprice, that the man
| Napoleon is really re-created, for he Is
! shown to be not only what all the world
loves TO loVe-a lover-but he is set
forth, and with impartial accuracy. as a
! considerable, tender-hearted, long-suf-
fering and enduring Darby to very
conscienceless Joan. Much as history
! has related OF the romantic incident
preluding Napoleon's marriage, this
author invests the amorOus little come
| DIV with a multitude of details that bring
back n plleon in a really amia6ie, and
even admirable light.
JOSEPHINE BEDRAGGLED.
Josephine was in the dismallest
straits, pinched on every side by pow
ertv, terrorized under debts in form
liable and innumerable forms, and yet,
pictured as an adventures, waiting
only for the hour and the man to re-
coup her fortunes. Napoleon, it seems,
was caught on their first meeting. He
had never seen any of the personages OF
the grand world. whose figures, like
the Sibyl's tablets became more precious
as they decreased in number
The struggle with poverty for jose
phine is at al end, and her perverse CO.
ouetry takes up pages OF that fascinat-
ingly vivid writing that the French
language seems alone to encourage a
man both to write and to read. Every
article in her modest little house was a
sham, or in some way pretense, to In
spire the mind Of the creduIous young
warrior with the conviction that he was,
il not within, at least close TO, the por-
tails of that grand world that seemed so
long submerged under the purple Hood
of the Terror.
In other words, Josephine seemed to
the young soldier one OF the 'grandes
danes" of that high noblesse which had
so long ruled France. No details, no
matter how minute, are spared. We
have down to the meanest article OF
household appanage in Josephine's
huose. The number Of pairs of stock
ings, the number and kind OF her un-
derclothing, corsets, In fact such
minute as implies world OF investiga-
ton among the household expenses oil
the past age. But infatuated by the
elderly siren, Napoleon, it seems, paid
no attention to what would have struck
any other wooer as obtrusively con-
Trajectory conditions, both in the mar
rage protocols, and the methods by
which Josephine brought about cere-
mony, which the author plainly charges
she only intended to ratify so long and
so far as 1t filled her purse.
Jose phine was so horrible poor and SO
deeply in debt that only lucky mar
rage, or suicide seemed way out oil
her difficulties. Napoleon cnme TO her
with the glory Of vanquishing the ter
ror of his brow, and the certainty OF an
immediate great command. 1t is not
exactly clear how Josephine, who at
once detected the provinciaps aspira-
tions TO mingle with the world he had
only heard of, should have OWNED any