Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-15

won The lawyers $4,000, which he re-
turned announcing that he preferred to
claim the forfeit agreed upon Van Buren.
however who was noted for his pride. re-
fused the money and threw 1t into NIarie's
lap as he left the room and drove away
through the wiutry night
And Immediately after George Parish and
Marie Nespucci started on their Journey TO
Ogdensburg where the Parishes owned
large estates
The mansion TO which the Tuscan beauty
was taken to live was for many years known
as the Red Villa" Mr. Parish and ma.
dame led most secluded lives. surrounded
by a retinue of fliveried servants, and with
a stable filled with blooded horses and
cellar Of rare old wines. Madame, il is re.
lated, could toss of glass after glass of
champagne with impunity, and always re-
manned at the table for an after-dinner
smoke.
A small silver matchbox engraved with
the crest and armorial bearings of the YES
pucci family is among the keepsakes still,
preserved by an Ogdensburg family who
were intimate with her.
BY degrees madam emerged from her
retirement aud shopped at the village stores
or took the early morning ferry to Prescott.
She enjoyed bit of gossip with the farm
ers' wives, who brought her new-made but
ter fresh eggs and cream She had, how
ever, the temper belonging to her race and
could terrorize the household when she
thought occasion required She was deft
with the needle, and an about the house
was to be seen the work of her facile
hands.
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on his trips TO New York Quebec or Nom
treal, which he made by coach or sledge,
with driver and relays of horses. but during
his frequent and lengthy absences her life
must have been a lonely one Occasionally
she had her physician or rector at the
house to dine, but gayer society she had
abandoned altogether A famous chef was
employed IN the establishment who after
ward went back to New York and became a
caterer of renown.
But as time went ON Marie Vespucci
beauty faded and vanished. The bitterness
of this to the woman who had once been a
kind of queen, was that George Parsh's
love for her had died at the same time
And when it happened that the death of the
previous holder of the title made Parish
Baron Won Leftonburg, he left Ogdeusburg
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once been so passionately enamored, with
out "a word
Nor did he ever return. She learned from
her attorney that she was discarded with an
annuity, and that everything had been put
into the hands of agents to sell as soon as
possible By the terms Of the settlement
she was not even allowed to remain in
Ogdensburg, but must live in Paris, where
none we're left who knew her before the
glory of her youth had departed.
She went during the early summer Of
1888, but before going she threw the man
sion open and gave a garden party to 20 or
go little boys and girls of the city, sitting
among her young guests on the lawn and
giving her personal attention 10 their en-
tertainment. When they went to take
leave Of their hostess she took from a small
table beside her pretty gift for each one,
telling the guest to keep 1t as a souvenir Of
the "fete champetre."
She died in Paris few years later.
The Baron Won Leftonburg lived on his
estates in Germany until his death few
years ago.