The Washington herald., 1914-11-22

Ipoleon" The child knew that his father
had been the Emperor OF the French,
that he had been ''sent away as a GRIM
1t was not until he was nearly seven
his teachers @ dirsefiy, @ " and Gh tSis pSt6etiG S %
the East Indies, / think?h "Ah, no, il
.I is not SO" ,S Perhaps he is in AmsTica r
he them" II cannot tell you 1T
seems to me / have heard IT said be was
How could that be possible?'
Thus put on. the little duke retired
within himself again. but only TO emerge
in a few days with the comment. Ma
polenn must have been a famous gen.
Is he no longer Emperor The teacher
| replied that all the powers had made
war against him because he tried to
returned once more to the subject OF
his consuming curiosity with the remark,
Il have always heard he is in Africa
ting his father. appealed to Emperor
Francis, who commissioned Metternich
Of all men. to have a long talk with the
youth about Napoleon. BY an equally
when he was much older, a review of
his fathers campaigns by Marmont the
first marshal to betray the Emperor.
The Widow and the Orphan.
When the report came TO Vienna that
the exile Of st. Helena had been liber-
ated by death, rAiglon was a handsome
boy OF ten. and had now fully succeeded
enveloped his paternity. The teacher
who broke the news to the duke was
surprised that he should shed so many
seen since as child OF three the En-
peror took him in his arms and kissed
him good-by, before departing on the dis
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Netternich advised the father-in-law that
IL would not do to permit mourning for
one who had been civilly dead six years.
Marie Louise did not pay to the dead
the Emperor Francis notified his daugh-
ter that Gen. Bonaparte" was no more.
The reply Of the eX-Empress is a strange
document: II confess l was extremely
shocked. Although / never had any deep
feeling for him, cannot forget that he
is the father of my son, and that far
seems to think. he always showed me
the greatest consideration, which, after
all, is all that one should expect from
a political marriage. ! was. therefore,
is reason to be glad that he ended his
unhappy life as Christian should, ]
would have wished him many more years
OF happiness and lfe-provided they
were lived apart from me-
That concluding sentiment may sound
unnecessarily harsh but II was the very
truth. 1t would have been most annoy
with his vile, for in anticipation of
widowhood she had given her left hand
to another and taken a second husband
already had a daughter four years old
and was expecting still another child
when the exiied husband died.
Marie Louise's Conqueror.
Never in his tortuous career did Met
ternich make a shrewder choice of an
agent than when. at Napoleon's first
downfall. he commissioned the Count
Marie Louise from her husband. The
wisdom OF his selection could not have
been perceived by discernment less
keen than that Of the Austrian states
man. For the count had certain marked
superficial disadvantages, and this mid
soldier, with a black silk band |
age tied over the socket Of an eye .ost |
in battle, produced at first disagree |
able impression" on the mind Of his |
girlish ward.
But the count was bred to the con-
quest Of hearts. Born of a gallantry |
between a Frenehman man and his German
mans wife and married her, while he |
had been fairly waited through life on |
sighs. After passing only a /
few weeks with him in Switzerland, the
adored even the black silk
bandage OF her fair, curly haired cham
berlain, who could play the piano d.
vinely and talk like Romeo. Meter
mich chuckled with satisfaction when
soon he found her appealing to her father
not to take the count away, and he
felt under the necessity Of eau
tioning her to be more decorous." al
feel sure" he said, after six months,
that the relations now existing between
him (the COUNT and the princess can
but lead to good results as he has es-
tabHshed such complete ascendency over
her that she dare not move without the
advice Of her friend"
Meanwhile guileless Marie Louise was
delighted In the delusion that for once
her heart was having fits own sweet
mere counter In the game OF the crafty
and sordid politicians. I'VE princesses"
she once explained, ARE not brought up
ike other women, nor have we the same