Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 31, 1873, Page 11

ATIn ' THE CHICAGO.. DAILY:"TRIBUNE» SUNDAY}. .4 b | — e —— e —————— e OLD COURT-LIFE IN FRANCE. A Hileous Record of COruclty ond Licentiousnoss Franeis 1., Diano do Poitiers, Cathering do Hedici, Honry of Navarre, Richeliou and Mnzerin, the Grand Honarquo, The Way which Led to La Carmagnole and the Reign of Terror. Fyom Al the Year Round, Ko onowho ronds the history of France for some genoerations bofora tho Groat Revolution, can much wonder at {hat outhronlt. Tho kelg- nonrinl Inws wero bayond measuro opprossive and Inbuman, and justico was & word that had noither power nor monning, The paoplo wore troated as slaves born fulo tho woxld for the Rolo pleasuro of tholr mnstora ; thero was no protecting Inw, 10 human consideration of any kind for them ; and tho raison d'etre of tho toiling millions was hold to bo that of feoding tho oxlravagant luxury of the idle hundvods, A solgnonr of the old Fronch school was OMNIDOTRNT ON T8 ESTATLS, and had tho power of lifa and death ovor his gorfs. Tho infamous laws which gave ovor tho pooplo body and sonl to their mastors, and which make ono blush for ond's kind, woro not taken oft tho mtatutc-book until tho revolution. Ono of theso lawa was, thet n Lord ‘might ordor a serf to bo ripped open, so that ko might warm hLis cold feot inhis body. It jt) almoat incrodiblo ; but it is truo all the game. And it is of no good to sy that this was o law nevornctedon. Tho fact that it oxinted atall proves ita possibility, howover raro its practico. Othior rights, too, were horoditary with the lands andtitlo of n sciguour of old times to which wo cannot do moro than allude. Oune very common form of luzurions oppression was con- nested with the bull-frogs of tho ponds. Theso frogs do cerlainly make an unoartlly noise through the night; and when a seignour tionored his estato by visiting it lis ponsantahad to whip the ponds ail night, 5o that tho croak- fng of tho frogs might not dlsturl tho rost of my Lord Marquis, fatigued with Lis revols, and ex- citod with high play. Thero was uo thought for the poor serf who had to toil all doy and watel all night. My Lord must sloop, lot who would wako; and the frogs must be keptin the good mannora of silunce ab any cost of plebian hu- manity. In = word, tho wholo systom of soig- neurial dominion was ono ot the VILEST AND MOST OPPRESSIVE that tho world has ovor soen; sud the peo- plo lived ‘in s glavish debagemont that fook o)l tho monhood out of thom If they submitted, or maddeuod them to fiendish frenzy if thoy rebellod. At Inst the na- tion arogo in {ts might, nnd rovongoed itself on pricste, lorits, and goveroigus, with the fioree ro- alintion of tho gnillotine, And with this hideous stato of things, inhu- man and barbarous, existed a cynicel confossion of immorality wherein was no rulo but the onoe of personal pleasuro, no Jaw but the law of king- Iy l|kin(3'. ra, Elliot's book, ** Old Court Lifoin France,” ia ranlly & history of tho royal favorites of both poxes who swayed the destiuios of tho foremost _mation in "Europo, snd eat as uncrownod monarcha by the sido of the sovercign from tho time of Francis the Tirst to that of Louis tho Fourteenth, In this bools we uce tho reason of that TREMENDOUS TOLITICAL CATACLYSM which shook_socioty to ils coutro, and tho last throba of which have uot yob subsided, Andif o Liavo not studied this pngo of history bofore, wo can understund better after reading Mrs. Elliot's book how tho rovolution eamo nbout, aud how it was more the Nemesia thou tho Ty- phon of socioty, the aveugor rathor than the op- pressor, "The sixteonth century was ona of thoso stir- ring opochs which kecm to form and vitulizo the futuro gencrations for all time. Art and litoraty epeculation and _scionco woro in full ty, and even war ituelf had its favarablo side. ‘° At this poriod three highly sduonted and_unscrupulous young mon divido the powor of Europe,” says Mrs, Elliot. ** The; aro 3 Honry _tho Iighth of England, Charles tho Tifth of Austrin, and Francig the First of France. Lach is magnificent in tnste, onch iu dosirous of power and conquest, Tach nets os o #pur to tho otbor hoth in peaco naud in war. Tnoy introduce tho cultivated tasten, (ho rofined babits, ihe frcedom of thought of madern life, and from the period _in which thoy flourished modern hisstovy dates, OF theso threo taonarchs Fraueis i tho| TULDEST, OLEVERLST, AND MOUT ITOTTIGATE, Tho olegince, re cut, and luxury of his court aro uurivalled ; and this huxury stiikes tha sonses from its coulrnst with tho frugal hobits of tho ascotic Louis the Elaventh, sud tholiome- Iy Touis the Twoelfth,” Trancis wos an ari- Jover i woll ag & warrior, 8 _politician, and o notorious squire of dames. - Ilo_introduced the Hennigrnnce, brouglt Collini, Primaticcio, and Loomudo da Viuc from Italy, “‘and nover Wwoariod of thoir company,” eatublishing this last at tho Chateau de Clos, noar his own castle of Amboise, whero the aged painter is said to hove gied in tho arms of his royal patron ; aud ho built beputiful palaces, quaint and rich, where his predecessors lind orected grit and frowning forlresses. Tho most famous of these structures [y Chatabord, * created like a fairy palnco amid the flat nod dusty plains of Sologus,”—Chan- bord, whero tho double etaireaso, roprosonting gigantio flour do lys in stono, allowa thoso who asceud to e invisible to those who descoud, whero doors are concenled in gliding panaly behind tho arras, whero there aro many doublo walls and secrot steirs, much beauty and flowing ornaniontation, bub also grave eauso for refleciion, and o little inlet for undersianding, fhere wos much in tholifo of Fraucis that nocessitated BECRET STAIRS AND SLIDING PANELS, It his own hauds wore notalways cloap, ho bad enemies whoue sengo of morn! purity was no more ndveuced, Plots were meb by countor- ploty, ditsimulation by trouchery, aud oppres- sion by trenon, till the world “was full of foar wnd pufforing ; and the only strnin of softneus running through the rolations of socioty wag lovo of {hat questionable kind kuown as yoyal favoritiim, To ho suro thero was beauty of appearznco s well as cwtivation of the intel- Ject; but with loarning, poetry, wit, nnd {ntellect camo _ luxury — an boundless cxtravagance, * Drantomo spoaka as with Lated brenth of the royal exponditure, Theso aro tho days of broad sombrero hats friuged with gold and looped u\‘).\\'nh pricoless jowels nnd fonthers; of embroidered cloaks in costly atufly ~hoavy with gold or sitver embroidory—hung over tho shonldor; of slnshed hose aud richly- chased rapiors: of garments of clothof gold, ombroidored with armorial boarings in jowols; of sntin justaucorps covored with rivieres of dia- monds, omeralds, and oriantal poarls; of tor- sados and collars wherein gold I but the foil to priceloss jgems., TIE TADIER WEAT 4 Taatorn silks and goldon tissues, with trim~ fmlng of vave furs; wida alooves and Spavish for- dingalos, sparkling coifs and jowolod uole, with glittering voils, T'hoy ridein llqnxlorollu conchies covered wilh earving and gilding, or on horses whoso pedigreos aro as undoubted as thoir own, covered with volvet houslnga aud silken nets woyen with jewols, their manos plated with gold and precions stones, Bub thaio itlustrious la- dies conslder gloves a royal luxury, and aro woak fu rospect of stoclkings. ~ Foromost in overy gor- goous modo fs I'ran Io weara rich Genoa volvots, and affects bright colors—rose aud sly= blue. A Bpaulsh hut i3 on hiu Lead, turned up with n whito plume, fastenod to an aigrotte of subles, with s golden sntumander as his dovice, * slggnifying, 1 am nourlshed and I dio in fire,' ™ In dIOHB days n 10nn's_enomics were omphati- cally those of his own houschold 5 aud the lifa of Francls the Firut of T'runco was no oxcoption to tharule. ‘There was that Lold and handsome OHARLES DE MONTPENBLEIL, Duo do Bourbon and Constable of Iranco, who fleut troubled hig luxurious roposo. Bourbon Btoad too high to ba wolt liked by the sovereigu. Tesides, thoro hud booun bq{luh diffienlty hotwoen thetwo ovor o gaino at maillonot many yearsago —for tho King's ngo is only 20, Bourbion's 26—ut Mgn, Llliotw oponing gcono, And tho difii« cully had ronkletl 5 tho Xing having chnllongod Tioutbon, but not having fought Lin, whici this Inst resontod ns an sifront to Liin hovor, Greator troublos, howorer, thin not getting * pluked by tho royal rapior, awnited tho handeomo youug Constabld ; for ho nnd the King's wiutor, Mar- guerite d'Aloncon, woro in love with onol other 1 wan in lovo with him, Touiso hnd certaln claima on tho inheritanco of tho Constable's lato wifo, Buzauno ; and thero olaims sho offored to con- golidato by mnrrying Bourbon—just fonrteon yoars hor “junior, Ho rofusod ; and mndo hor 118 ENEMY FOR LIFE, At lnst tho court lutrlqnnu and state plole growing up ovorywhoro, like mushrooms fn a night, oulminnted in his opon_rebellion and tho {rannfor of iy wword nnd rorvico to tho onomy of Franco and I'rancls, Oharles tho Iifth of Hpain, Mauy of the first nobloa or the timo followed tho Copntable; nmong thom tho Comto de Saint-Vallior—for whose lifo his daughtor, tho boantifial Dinno do Brozo, bottor known ns Diang do Poltiers, wifo of the Cirand Honcachul of Normandy, hosought the King on hor knoes, Hor heauty gained what justico aud merey aliko would have gnniml; and sho bought {lio graco sha sought—at tho prico of which all Listory is cogninznt. Thon como_the wer belwoon Francls aud Charles tho Fifth, with our cousin Bourbon fighting undor the bannor of Bpain; TIIE BATTLE: OF PAVIA, and the famous lettor of Francis to hin mothor, *Lout ost Pm‘du fora I'honneur " bin imprison= mont aud illnens -In_the Alcazar nt Madrid ; tho arrival of his sister DMarguerite, his “truo friend, and hor ontreatics to Liim to savo his lifo and gain his liberty by nssonting to tho terms proposed by Charlest nomely, tho cosslon of urgundy, the ronunciation of all intorost in Vlaudors and tho Milanose, the paymout of o ransom that would boggar the country, his mar- ringo with Elinor, Quaon Dowagor of 'Portugal, the wistor of Charles, and tho delivoring up of his gons, tho two young Drincos, tho Dauphin and the Duo d’Orionns, as Tontagos il thoso condilions wors fultilled, Lo all of which Tranvis sworo nsgont—for the timo;aund per- Jured bimself, Aftor this wohnvo tho RETURN VISIT OF ONARLES to Francls, and the wall-kuown anecdote of ‘Priboulot, tho conrt fool, The debato botwoon Trancis and the Duchesdo d'Etnmpos, the teign- ing favorito, which Mrs, Elliot hna imngined, is on tho subject of how Charles is to bo received. Francis says that bo will go to meet him at Tonr- raine, then attend him at'Lochos and Awmboieo. ‘The Ducliess ndvocates tranchery nud tho oubli- ettes, Tho King bolds faat by the Lionor of hospitality and porsuasion, not forco, in tho mat- tor of that trenty of Madrid. lriboulot, who s beou shaking tho eilver bells on his parti- colored dross with nuppressed laughter, pulls out somo ivory tablols to add omothing to a list 1o keaps of those whom ke considors groator fools than himself, Ho calls it his * journal," Tho King looks on the tablots, nnd seos tho name of Oharles the Tifth, “Hal ha! by thomaesi how long has my Lrotlior of Spain figured thoro ?" asks he. “*'Tho day, siro, { hoard ho had put his foot on thio French frontior,” “What will you do when I lot him depart freoly.” “I gholl," enid Triboulet, “rub out his namo and put yours in its place, siro,? ‘The vikit, howover, wont off, a8 wo knot, with no groator calamity than o little love-making be- tweon TJLE PAVORITE AND TIE GUEST 3 part of the process of which was tho presontation of a riug by Charlos to the Duchesso whon sho held tho goldon basin for him wherein to_wash Dis hands, with tho subscquont ;;opulnr Doliof of Der having botrayed Francig, It was the way thoso favorites hod. Dought by the greed of Fain, tho love of plensuro, or thalust for {lu\\‘ut, hoy woro ready to soll to a higher bidder the so- callod lovo and sorvico they hava already bar- tered; and when Francis wroto with his dinmend ring on tho window of his closot at Chambord, ‘Bouvent fommo varie Blon fol qui s'y flo ; ho had ind roason enough in hia own life to know how truo hiy first lino was, and how oft ropeatod his uscond. IIENRY THE SECOND, the ron of Trancis, husband of Catherine do Medici and_father of Francis tho Second, Charles the Niuth, and Ienry tho Third, like- ‘wiso the open and confeascd foyer of his father'a discarded favorite, Dinne do Poitiors,a woman of 85 whon ho was & mora lad and his bride only 15, didnot onjoy his Kingehip vory long. Eight-and- twenty whon Lio bogan his reign, ho finished & A. D. 1659, when 40 yemrs of ago, and nftor only twelvo years’ rulo. Who doea not knosw the man- ner of Lis dontl, how, on that bright summer's day,—whon Elizabeth his daugbtor, and Marguo- rite his sistor, woro married, tho ono to Thitip the Becond of Spain, tho morose Lusband of our awn Mary Tudor,tho other to tho Duc de Savole, —-nftor Liaviug succesafully mastored lis oppo- nonts in the jousts, Henry met tho Scotehman Dlontgomery, who, by somo mismanagement, did not suceeed 1n giving him tho best of tho vhocl, a8 wns the rulg, but shook bis fost out of the stirrupe. Tho King in lis golden avmor, bhis sword-handle end dagger sot with jowols, wnd wenring the colors of Diane de Poifiors,—white nd blnek,—insislod on e second tilt, They mot. Montgomery held his lanco straight and fnu. Tt broko tho King's vizor, and o SULINTER ENTERED IS EYE 3 and after lingering o fow doys in ugony ho died. Tint oven beforo ho drew his lnutbronth, Cnthe etine sent an ordor to hor hated rival to guit the Louvre on tho ivstant, to deliver up tho crown jowels, and to make over the posscesion of tho chatoau of Ohicnonceny, in Louriaine, to liorself, ““Chenoncean wna — Cntherine's —* Nuboth's vineyard,'” says Mra, Llliot, “YTrom o gicl, whon she hed often visited it in company with Lor fatlior-in-law Irancis, she had longed to possess this lovoly soodinbd palaco beside tho clenr waters of the river Cher, T'o her inoxprea- siblo disgust, hor husband, whou ho beenmo King, presonicd it to tho ‘old hay,’ Diane,Duch- esso do Valentinoiw.” Disno, sitting lonoly at tho Louvrs, turned upon tho meesoner, asing : “lg the King thon dead " Hearing that ho was not, ‘sho sent o defying mecoage_to the Queon ; but the curtain dropped on horin a fovs Loura after; aud Dinna de Poitiars, Duchosse do Valontinois, pnsrod nway into an obscuri- ty from which it would have beon botter for both TFranco and humanity bud sho never emerged | CATIERINE DE JEDIOI, * . as Queen-Regent, Lad ler hands full. Grant any amount of fringe, para off all popsible mar- gm of exaggoration, and ntill onough romams ohind to stamp her ono of the moat crual and tho most astute, ono of the vileat and the clovor- st Women of 1iér 0wt or kny gonoration. Amon tho crimes of which #ho is acousod, yob of Shtoh tho verdict i not proven, stands that of poison- ing Joauno, Queen of Navarro, motbor of Henri tho Fourth, by o pair of gloves ; also that of poisoning hox brother-in-law, tho Dauphin, in o cu{t of weter, by which Ienry tho Second andhor- gelf camo to tho throne. Sho planned and oxe- cutod tho megsacro of Snint Bartholomew ; and &ho systematically degraded tho virtuo of women and the honor of ‘men, that sho might make her account out of their passionn sud weaknosnos. * 3Ty maids of houor aro my best_allics,” she snid signiticantly, sponking to the Duc do Guise. “Bho jmportca ready-witted Italinng, nc- tors, and singers,” says Mrs. Elliot, ‘' who layed 8t o theatro within tho Ilotel ourbon, b Paris ; ualtimbanquos and rope- daucors, who ]lurnflcn’l the ntreots ; antrologers, liko Linggioro; jewolors, like Zamottl; aud boulkors, like Gondi, These men woro ready Lo goll thomsolves for auy infmny ; to call on” tho stars for conflrmation “of tholr prophecien ; to benofit spondthrift Princes wilh amplo supply of ready cash ; to insinuato thomsolves Iuto tho confidonco of unwary nobles ; or to serve their roya) mistross as sples. A womau of such pow- urfld mind, iuflmito resource, aud uuscrnpulous will, OVERAWED AND OFI'REEGED JIER CHILDREN, During tho threo succossive roigns hor sous, Iranciy tho Hecond, Charles the Ninth, and Houry the Third, Unthorine raled with the iron band of o mediwval despot. Yot hor cruelty, periidy, and statescraft, woro worso then useless, Sho lived to #co Lho chivalrous ruco of Valois degraded ; hor fayorito child Au- ou, Henry tho whird, driven like a dog from Paris by Henry do Guiso; and son after son go down childless to o dishonored gravo,” 'As for hor dnughiter, In reino Margot, or Mar- guorito of Navarre, wife of Ienry tho Fourth Sud boloved of many moro, Cathoring nover oven protended to love hor. Buch womon as_sho soldom earo for tholr daugh- tors, and mot often for their =mona Bo long es the m{ lifo of this plousure-loving womu only ottraged morality, but left the Queon-rogont's smbitious sohomes and State in- trignes alone, dio was contont. It was ouly when la reino Margot's excossos becamo dangor- ously notorfons that sl romonatrated ; but oven thou it was for :ha sake of expodionoy, nob vir- tno; for Lo nnoty of tho royal power, mot for tho wortl of u royal oxamplo. ‘Phis woman reigned, and tkis atato of things continued for TWENTY-NINE YEAIS § and then the erol Queon died & fortnight aftor tho foul murler of lo Bulafro,—which murdor alono, woro mything olio wanting, would havo lwn]?ml infany forever upon the reign of Heary the ‘Phird, iturdor indoed was the ordor of the day all thragh theso times; mwrder, whothor by Beoret polsoning or by open \}u'.nhm-y, sl wae emuot wondor (€ “tha tewriblo fate to which the quoon and Lor sous had dedi- cated po pany othera foll at last on ono of thom- golyos, Lenry thio Third died by tho hand of the astnssin heques Cloment, and Henryfho Fourlh, K MENDY OF NAVATRE, onea the Protestant lendor, becamo now the Outholis King, . But ho at leart was Ireo from the stain of blood-guiltinees, und if his lifo was not [ frank, his charactor had cortain _popuiar quall- tlog which throw his vicen Into thio nhndo. " Dut ho was viclous nil tho samo; and the man who wighed that avm'{ Ennmmk in_hin dominions might havo a fowl in hin pot on Bundny was tho man from whom overy fullior of any dogreo would most enrofully kaop his daughéor, ovory husband his wifo. " “Brave to n fuult, ho rodo hithor and thither liko o knight-orront, regardless of bis porsonnl afoby, nccompne nicd only by n fow attondanls, Although o warrlor and o statestoan, 1fonry was a truo ohild of the mountning, Born undor the shade of the Pyronces, o would as soon on- cmuY undor o hedgo as lio an o bed of down; wonld rather vat driod hum spicod with garlie than dino sumptuously at Jamot's Palnco, i tho Marals, or ot ‘Lo Petit More' the polite traftour of that day; would quaif the potit cru of his native grape with more rolish thau the costliost wines from the vinoyards of Champagno or Bordoaux, Honry waa not Lorn on tho banks of tho Garonne, but & MONE THOROTGIT GARCON novor lived; his hand upon his sword, his foot in tho atirrup, his gun_slung across Lig shouldor, tho first in nesault, the last in rotroat, ready to glay tho wild bonr of his native forests, or, luto in hand, to iwang n voundelay in honor of the first Duleinca ho oncountered. DBoastful, foar- less, capriclons, his vorsatilily of accomplish- monts snited the changing aspocts of the timos, Ho was plan of spoocly, rough in mauner, with a quaint joat nlike for friend or foo ; irrogular in Lis habits, enting 8t no stated times, but when Dungry voracionely devouring overy thing that plensod hii, unpec!ullf'fmlt nnd oystors ; nogil- gont, not fo say alrty, {n his porson, nnd awmelling strong of garlio. man who called o spado o sprde, swore lilo a trooper, and bated tho .pando’ of courts; wes cone stant in friendship, fioklo in love, promised nay- thing frecly, enpecially marriage, to any beanty who caught his eyo; a boon companion among men, & lbertiuo with women, o story-tellor, ;pmint in his carcless epicuronnism, and o pro- found n beliover in * the way of fato’ that, rock- Joss of tho morrow, ho oxtraotod all thinga from the paseing hour.” If such n man was onc of gho }lultor sort, what could the worst have von DPasn on to tho minority of .- LOUIB THE THINTEENTIT when Mario do Modici wus Rogent, nd Richelion hor Ministor; to Taajor- ity when Aune of Austrin wns ‘his wifo, and tho wholo court was torn betwoon the factions of the two rival ladies, with Madomol- oolle do Hautofort as the King's confidanto—in all houor—nand the Duchesso do Chevrouse ng the Queon's, Richalieu howover kopt thoe helm of tho Stato vossel slraight cnough for his own Enlh:y. Ho was the Govornment; “I and the Ring ;" and ' after mo tho deluge.” After bim indeed the deluge, g0 far as poor, work, timor~ oua Louis was concorned ; for he survived hiy Emat Ministor only flve monthe. Waariod of ifo, disgusted with powor, Lo gave up tho strug- 510; and on tho 14th of May, 1643, Inld down to lio, when 42 years old, inore because he would not than bocauso ho could not live. Tranco passed now under another Regeney. ‘Chis time ~ ANND OF AUSTRTA was the nominal rulor, with Cardinal Mazarin as tho guido and master, and, fiuplly, socret hus- bend of the weak and solf-willed woman. Again, tho old round of wrong goes on. Court intriguos and court immoralitios fill up tho time of oll who live in that fatal atmogphere, Without, wars and rumors of wars ; prum%nm oxponadi- turoand griping poverty ; the noblo, & man of Digher human calibre apparently ihau tho pons- aut, and holding himself superior to the Deca~ loguo and all other laws, human and divine, whon the whim took him; overywhero tho privileged class outraging justico, defying God, oppressing man, with tho lower orders writhing under their feot, too weal to rosist, too broken to combino. Thon eamo tho reign of tho Grand Monarque, Louis the Fourtcenth, ono of tho OREATEST HISTORIOAL NOAMUGS of modorn times, With him, too, tho nation moant_only tho two classcs of thoso who worlkod nnd thoso who enjoyoed, with bimaolf tho dous moximus ab tho hond of tho dfl minores, Thero was still no question of mercy, justice, humanity, or morality. Taxos wora 1ald on tho peopla till tho heaviest toil would scarcely give food for tho toiler ; men with names and purses bought justico opoenly on tho bench; thousnnds of lives were saerificed for tho ‘“glory” of this bLlatant posturizing Fronch Turveydrop; nowhora Was rovorouce paid to any of the firsl principlos of right, of freodom, of Christin Jiving; overswhero only ‘vico and'oppression, only bloodshod and atarva- tion, Louts tha Fourteonth might heve been the Grand Mounrquo in his own way; but it wesa way which LED TO LA CARMAGNOLE, and tho tumbrils laden with the innocent con- demued. “W'o build Versnilles and neatly ruin tho alrondy impoverishad conviry for the dost ; to go to war with Flandera, with *1lolland, with Spain, end and come off victorious aud ronowned ; to con- contrato all his facultios on questions of prece- donce, on_the mode of Leing *inconsed " at clurol, whon thoy woro not omployed in making loveto women who weranot his wives; tobosmur- tinet in tho question of wigs, aud nn sutocrat to thocourt Lailor; to prove his lovo for God by his batred to men of anather faith than his own; to toko up anns agnin agaivst Nolland, and this timo to fail; to inke up tho eczuso of Princo ‘(i‘lmslcd, and ngain to fail; to dio as holad v " ANYTQORITE AND A LIDEATINE,— this wes the lifo of Louis tho Mourteenlh,—tho grand-fathor of ono of themost infamons of nil the list, Louiy the TFifteonth, the lover of Do Pompadour, Du Barry, aud many otbors loss notorious if no lesu gnilty. What _marvel thon that the rovolution came? Louis tho Sixteenth was moral, truly, but wooden-headed and_dull; Murio Antoinette way brilliant, brave, and fascinating, but not 1o bo trusted, und more lovely than beloved, ITad they beon tho first of their bad lino they would not have fallen ag thoy did, DBat thoy camo as the oulmination of genorations of misrulo, of CENTURILS OF CRIME} 5 and they suffored for tholr fathers, according to tho toxt, Tho time for rotalintion had como; and the revengo that wns takon waa gqual to tho wrongs that had beon wronght, We should nover forgat this whon wo spealk of tho Fronch rovolution of '89. Whatevor tho crimes that de- facad tha atrugglo, thoy lind beon propared for in the crimes of the past ages, Oppression had bratalized tho people, and suffering had mnd- dencd them, It was nn awfal time ; and no npolo- gist can dony tho terrible wickednons had com- mitted thon; bub neithor can the most passion- ato condomuer deny tha infamy that went bo- foro,—the eruelty, blood-guiltiness, aud immorsl- ity of the old cout lifo of Franco that paved tho wity for the Goddess of Ronson, the Soptembor maggacres, and tho Noign of ‘Ferror. e TO FY FRIEND, Teep all that carolees hapninoss, Thiat utts your 1ife g0 freo, For thoso Who Gl your sumyior-hours With Hghtust gayety. Your laughing oyo must sonictime wear A sadutns o regret, That tluds nowhoro o answering glesm,— Nowhero un eyolid wol,— Nowhero that tender sympathy Which somotinea all licarta Aeck, Although no Lightost tone or el Tuo yearning prayer may upeals, Thon keep your careless happinoss For hearts mora light than mine, But como to me for tenduruess “Uhat shall, at loast, bo thine, Aug. 16, 1873, i SR~ it FASHION, TFrom the New York Kvening Matl, Foshionablo milliners inform us ihot the wintor bonnet will bo & * charming modifica- tion ™ of the hoad-gear now worn, —Cano fany aro ono of tho latest novelties, Thoy nro of obony, with _knob handies, out of which springs o utnall silk fan odged with Iace sud handsomely decorated, —Lobe, or stud ear-rings, continuein fash- ion, Thoso of diamoend or ponil aro, perhups, tho most in favor, Tondont oar-rings huve by 1o means gono out of fashion, sud naver will, 80 long a4 [ndies imagine that thoy are becowiug to their stylo of boauty. ~Tortoigo shell jowelry increnscs slowly but stondily in fusbhion,” No fushionablo ludy’s Jewol- box iy consldoved comsxloto naw-g-days without a 8ot of tortolsio, oupooiully tho nocklaco and mono- gram lockot, ~ ‘Phicso orhainents aro always gon- tool and stylish, and can bo worn with “almost any toilotta appropriatoly, —Lnadies muy bo Intorested to knot that over- gkirts aro to bo discurded for promenado cox- tumos aud induor;toilets, noxt wintor, Blirts will be trimmed with pnfiings, cto,, to simulato ovarskirts, and for this purpose laco will bo much usod, Worth, wo bolloyo, originatod [his idon, To him tholadios anxiously look fora practical lustration of Lho novelty. —Toathors form tho chief, and ottontimen only, lrlmm!n[{ ou the hats now fashionnblo among ludios, Drown, blacl, and purplo arethe popular colors, A gracoful owllng and long, xh'ooillng fuatlior ovor tho orown of ‘tho lint is vory niylish, Home of tho huls are very clegant, Tho Indios LER P, HONORA. DY MARRIET PRESCOTT BTOFFORD, Yo, TMonorn Drontworth was alwaya o statu- ouano thing. Thoy used to make thoir angels, and ghosts, and sculptures of hor Inall their chinrades and tableaux, and well sho played tho part. It ono night I sas her in a statuo seono that was enough to chill your blood, alnost ns hors was ohillod, Bho wnn naturally pnle—nono of the aickly casb of skin, but o waxen whitoneus that was lovely In {tsolf to tho artlstio eyo, that finds plensure in all yarylng bonuty, and whero it cliooses blughoes ou ono faco, chooses pallor on unothor, Dub Honorn horeelf dotested thia pallor, and often put n dolicato dash of rougo upon hior chaok and chin ; and thon o wan beautiful, with hor straight fair hair banded away from tho classle faco, wnose profilo was liko a Peycho's, oud tho long-leshed oyos that woro almost nlways cast down undor their snow-whito lide, * What n deathly huo!” #hio would ory, as sho looked in tho glass, *It I8 nnort of hospital flag. It warns overybody off from mo. Nobod iton to keop company with tho doad and dying, andso don't pronch any ‘mora nbout my rouga!” Nor was sho nltogothor wrong iu her comparison, for sho lind nome in- serutablo disonso of tho beart that now they would call by e long and lenrned name, hut that then had no mme at all, Emporors not haviug died of it. Its chinruclor, howevor, waa botter known than its namo, sinco it froquently canged her to faint quito away, and might oventunlly provo o moro serions thing, in caso any sudden shock or plensuro should over lll\)‘l‘{‘ the blood too swiftly on ita pansngo through tho boari—a thing not likely to bappen o Ifonora, who wan cool and oalniand unmoved to a degreo not common with ‘womon, for most womeon have not_such carthly fixity, aud in their ehnufi:lur and flitling and sparkling thoy aro more like the ovanescont and othorenl fire. " But Honora had had the troublo for lalf o dozon years, and snid littlo or nothing abont it, and was woll and strong in spito of tho oceagional fainling-fit; and slic wan o fino and quoonly and brillinub ibat sho had more lovers than sho could count on Lor fingera. Tor nll that, ITonorn was not happy. Morde- enl aat in the King's gato, Bl wos such o solf- contnined, solf-balancod thing that nobody would hsvo finnsuod it unloss observing hor as clouoly as I did, since to mo she was somothing of nstudy, for Iam & gossiping thing, as you soo, telling all I know. Dut Honors took coun- gel with nobody but herself, and, if you can un- dorstand mo, did not always toll all sho Lknow evon to harsolf. Bo na I looked at her T could well discover how listloss she was whon one poraononly was absout from tho group nbout her, I could soe that tho room wne cmply (o her if lto was not thoro, that she honrd peoplo talking acif in o droam, and wished that sho could waken ; and when ho camo sho wolo, she lifted tho benutiful white lids, and tho gront Boft dove eyos glistened, and whifo o spoke to hor tho sieotest suspicton of color soomed to_fan up into her chook, #o that then sho ncodd no rongo at all, But, aftor all, that wan seldom, for Androw Renton had other calls upon lug timo than thoso Honora mado, I think he was & thbmmdod man, not wosth the devo- tion of 80 dacp and strong & nature as Honora's ~of such o nature as 1lonora’s might have heon 1ind good angels guided ber. But that i tho woy of the world. Itis thopo men that too frequont- 1y got tho devotion. And Andrew Ronton hed o racoful mannor with him that was captivating ; 0 had o troubadourish sort of benuty; men loved him, and it did not nced his brilliant talk, his daring riding, bis dash and glittor, to conquer woman, 8o long a8 he had that grooiously sov- eroign way ond that air of undivided intorost, ;\-l‘xlic(l; nlways sorved him whoro better mon Lad niled. Novortheloss, Androw Ronton might have boen all well enougl if ho had hed o steady soul; but Lo was na uncertain s tho wind; bocause he was in this quarter to-day, it was no sign he was to be there to-morrow. ~ Ho bad no fixed pur- 0868, uot avon any proferonces; bo could not oll, in point of fact, whother ho liked virtne or vicotho best, Ho thought the ‘‘Lnst Roso of Bummer” tho swaetest tune in tho world when Amahel Durnoy sang it, and continued thinking go till ho hoard Ifonorn sing *lomo, Sweob Home." He was suro tho bluebell in Honora’s fuir braids was the lovelicst flower that blows till ho gnw the camellin in Amabel's derk curla; tho Dlondo's groat ropose soomed to bim absolute perfection till ho again fell in with tho witch- eries and vivacities of tho dark-oyed and rosy- cheeked Jittle boauty, Ilo turned on his finger tho eupphire, whoso dark blue fucots brole iuto Dlood-red rays nt tho angles of its cutting, aud wondored wliich of those two lovely handu would wear it, a8 it {alo and not ho wero Lo dotermine, But bofore Amabel Burnoy croasod his vision he iad boon zli Honora's, savo for occrsionni sty of verancy of 1o curation; and ho had Tiesitated in his contemplatcd proposal of minr- riage only beenuee ho could not judge trom hor wanner what the answer would be, and o not un- usual vanity made him desire cortainty. Every day sho had oxpected Lo hear tho words from his lips; sho Jnow that sho was his alre folt that he was Lors. Sho was o cevlain of his 1ovo, indeed, that nhié did not feol it necearary Lo restrain her own feoliugs, and though sho con- fided nothing to anybody, she loved him tenderly and idolutrously, And ono night she had bo- trayod it. . 1To cnmo, on tho morning after that fatal nyen- ing, his Leart full—though, as you rco, it did not tako much to fill it, = o was suro now of Eoml fortuno, though no words had passed stween Lhom, and ho intanded to complote the mute avowal of the night before, and have o deflnito understandivg in relntion to their mar- ringo. 1lonora, on tho night boforo, standing undor the chandolier, with: it light potring down on the dlonds_cendree hair and gilding it, pour- ing ovor Lior draporics of {mlu silk, and flashing buck from hor great penrls, neomed o him so glovious o croature that ho dared not wuit lougor oro o cloimed her, Ho could not wait, ho snid, And yot if Ishould tell you tho exact truth, it would be that as ho mounted tho steps the noxt worning be oxperienced o lranga Eouso Of suffocation, and hed balf the mind to retroat Doforo hio was manncled. I supposo tho artist {;L hi?\ loved Ifonore, but the mun in him loved orty. But no ho entored the parlora thet morning, without announcement, ho saw Uonora in the music-room bovond, ith loe youag singing- mistress standing besido hor, and ho quictly tool hig seat in tho window, ahiclded by thio curtain, to gaze ou ler ab hig plensuro tifl tho Jesnon should be through, But the lesson was long, Ho could not aeo Monorn furthor than some folds of hor dress ; only tho music-toacher facod him, brunotto and bright, velvet-oyed, and To8; -hmvud —n littlo pisco of as porfoct fQosh and blood as ho bad over sgom Lo snid,—only tho voico of tho fresh young thing {hrilled him, Dofors tho lesson was ovor callers of importance came, aund, of courgo, tho businoss of tho day would have had to ho postponed, oven if it hnd sulfered no divorgion. 'hero was possibllity only botween him and Honora of one long, full lovk into each othor's eycs, ono long, closo prossuro of tho Liands, muta roiterution of the night's mute gs- suranco, und o it chancod that Mr, Renton walked homo with tho littlo music-techer, and ho would bnve hoon & very difforont being from Androw Ronton if lio had not followed np hisop- ortunity, for ho was a man nowiee fastidiens as 0 cnsto, aud ho found that ho had mada the ac- quaintance of ono as lovoly in naturo as in faco, as funacont and unsuspecting and sweot as & child should bo, as modest and timid asa woman. "Thore wat uothing timid about Ifonorn, though revervo aud cold pride might counterfoit tho clnrm, E At firat it had beon accldont that throw him in the littlo musician'a socioty; it was acoldont that caueed theta to maeet ageln in musie-rooms, and at othor housos ; then it way purposo. 1o followed the Pyauv thinfi about, thiuking Lo was but amuning himself. To-dey ho fulfilled au on- fingnmnut with Honora; to-night ho wout to ear Amabel slng, Whon ho saw Honora he wns lhor slave, and showed it ; as ho loft hor his fot- tors woro loosoned ; and when hosaw Amabel ho thought it ag swoot to rulo thore us to sorve else- whore, 1lonora's fortune aud Amabel's poverty mado no difforenco with him ; e already had, if not ag muoh wealth oy ho wantod, yot onough to augwar at & pinch—hia wife, whoaver shia wight be, could hnve hor own coach, and would not be destituto'of dinmonds, Novertholoss, ag tho daya wont, he foltn trifl unoasy—tho lonst in tho “world ¢‘lu]»lunuud with himsole, 1lo wishod he had novor seon Amnbol, or olue, on tho night before ho did, he had not walked with Ilonora in the consorvatory und In the dimshadows of the palms and bunauus thoro; for on that night thoy had Loou danolugtogothor, o flushod with tho ‘musio and tho waltz, and maybo with tho wiue, nho whito aud still as bo- foro; and as thoy paused & momont in their sunntoring through the green obscurity, whero onch of them might havencomed little morothan a boautiful shudow to tho other, o Liad suddonly, impoliod by 1o kuow not what ‘mshmoss, oxcopt tho fovor in his blood, bent and Xissed Ttonora’s Enrflmt mouth 5 and, ay if tho flory touch had rolen the utatue-liko epoll that always bound lior, sho bad mot biu lps with lips as passionato. And thon gay approaching voteos camo down tho Dblossoming aislo with josts and laughtor, and thoy woro not alono again, Dut what woman of Ifonora's_temporament, aftor all that had gono boforo—the long friondshin, the loug woolng— Kioo ag tho avowal sho had swnitod-—would nof liavo uxPuclod plainer rapturcs and moro opon deolnrations on tho morrow? Aud what woman would not have rat in amazed and Indignant silonco, biding hor timo, whon dnys pnased, and woolw, and, at longll, one month wau unpr\nu fhto muotlior, ana il the lover eamio, il yob no plalner word was spohen? \What womnn would not have bean resolved to dissover the ronson that lnt’ behind it all, and, if Jovo wan 80 nll'un[; in hior that sho could nol hato hor lovor, would'nat huve hated the thing (hat sho fonud was robbing hor of him? Dut whon some woeks had _pansed, and Mr. Tenton found himeel? in his dilowns, Amabol's iniluonco counterncting Iouora's just onough to muke Lim uncortain of himsolt—uncortnin whother he wished {hat ho might marry both of thom or thnt ho hind never oo oithor of them ; aud whon other weoks had pasaod, and affairg woro worse with him instead of bobter, and Honora's mannor grow iclor overy day, and Ama- bol's lind o toueh of pathon in 16 that it tried o maon to seo, thon Mr. Renton resolved that ho would loavo town and both of theso mngnots for o while, and trust o timo to clonr up tho mattor for him. 1lo hiad somo busines in tho Went that ho had usually intrusted to an agont; but it would bo Just a3 woll for him to look at1t himself; and ho necordingly sat down and wrote lottors and mado appointmonts, and uom){lulad 1is nrrange- nionls in such & manner tlat tho wiles and strnte- gies of neither of tho two enemics of his ponco should bo able to have any flucnce with him for this timo at loast. ‘Tho room was full at Hanora's whon he wenb to upenk of his approaching doparturo, for it wng hior yecoption-day—tho streot cumborad with fino equipages and “the stairways with gorgoous women, “1I have como to bid you good-hy,” tanding boside hor and{aking hov full, ho loast tremor imaginablo run in ono long undulating eparklo through her jowoled nocklace, for Ilonorn was ono of thoso who do not belieye in leaving the beautitul for ago and uglinosy alono to wear. " Are you going away ? gho asked ; and tho color cropt to hor chicelr, whore nhe had forgotten to put tho rougo, tho fainteat rose-tlush, but ib mudo her gimply porfeot ; and an he looked at lior 1o could not hiolp murmuring, A woman of tho gods, divinely tall 4 And most divinely fair, Another guost claimed hor attention that mo- ment, and as #ho abnontly hold her hand for the fau while epenking with hor faco nverted and to- ward the now-comor, 3, Renton had nothing to do but to gazo at her in her magnificouco, with the palo pink shimmer of her silk, tho vapory Iaco, tho jowels, tha fontures like o Greek god- dons', tho shining fafness of face, and tho similo as_dreamy ag if sho wero a being of another sphore that a1l tho time claimod ber thoughts. 1t wag too much for Renton, of conrso: you might 08 well expeet bim to stand in tho Linkt and not eol tho sun. **Yes, Inm going away,” ho unid ‘as 8he turnod ogain in g divoction, - And when I come bnek, Honora 7" ‘What, when ho came back? Sho meant to an- awor him coldly, but it was impossible. Sho had loved him from childhood; susponso and fenr hod only fed tho flame. Love loscs all acneo of rido; ‘sugor gaes down bofors it, Doubtless e had been trifling with ber, but—she loved him, “When you come back ? " sho srid, under hor breath, marble whits, not lifting her oyea, o was bending low befors ler, in coromoni- ous adieu, to all the world, if all the world wero looking, but ho had taken hor handlerchiof- holdor, and was sliding its ring ovor tho third finger of hor outstrotched hand. ** Whon I como baek,” ho enid, “shall I put o differont ring on thpt fingor—ono nover to como off 7" Bho could not spenk; sho could only roply with o grasp of the hand ; and then glaucing up, Lo saw tho blush mounting hor white faco, bath- ings choek and forchead inits deep and rosy tints, and suddenly surging away and leaving them ashou, ag sha foll forward, fainting, ‘Thero was an outery at onco abont the heat of thio rooms ; and thoso crowded up with fans, and those with vinaigrottes, and tho Test willi ice-water and with wino; and Renton carried her to tho sofa of an adjoining perlor, ond left her with Lior foatherod nvd jowelod firing-womon. And when glie camo out again, half an~ hour af- torward, pale and smiling, With an incfiablo peaco ou hior face, ho kissad her hand aud wont, Mr. Renton thought that ho would writo littlo Amabol s farowell, and ho went to_drive in tho arls, und he dined with a friend, and when oven- ng came ho did not feol liko writing. Ife felt liko heaving somo music, and ho kuow lie could not 600 Iouora, for sho was to boat & grand din- nor-party, Aud g0, on the wholo, it scemed ns woll toho eivil, and bid_littlo Amabel good-by in person. Ho could enfTor tho statement to eg- capo in the conwso of usual conversation, ho fan- cied, that he folt Limsolf bound in honor to Tlonore, and that would put au end tacny oxpec- tations Amabel might havo chorished, Yes, ho repeatod, o8 o went along, ho cortainly was hound in honor—and Xr, Renton had not an iden b{‘xl: thatho was ono of the mout honorablo men alive. ‘Aranbol was eftling at her piano whon ho wons iy but sho was nob plagiug ; bor head was lean- {ug forward on tho music-iack, and hor nititude wus oua of listlery molancholy. At lLiis stop shio pprang to hor feot, and ho gaw that tho toars wero till pparkling upon her face, and muking her, with hor burning ehecks and ey dark cyes glictering under tho_moisturo, more dnzzling than ever, Bho eat down agnin divectly, aftor qreoling him, and bogan to play {o Lfn, and then to ing. | Renton was & connoissour in his way; the voico, if nob glrong, was swect, and tho method was fing, tho foeling was perfect; ho Jounged in & comfortablo ehnir, gnzing at tho protty picture tho gitl made, bis koul aud_ sonscs soolliod in an opicnrenn lusury. Dy-wnd-hy Amabel left the pisno and enwio to #it besido mm.““om" sho cricd, * I thought you wory ono ! 3y ' And wag that why you were erying?"” h nalked. She stopped & moment in her udvanco., “T haven't any friends,you know, in all the world 1" shosnid, “Iumall alono. And you secmed—you scomed—" “T seomed—"" Bhe paid no attention to his tone, but impa- tiontly shook back tho tumbling Dlnck cutls. * And when I thought you had goue without bid- ding mo good-by,” sho bogan; and {hen hor voico oholed, and sho flung hersolf half about and burst into toars again. And in anothor memont Ronton, who could not ondure the gight of puin at all, uovor tho sight of tears, and Joast of mll the toars of & protly child for whom he had a toudorness, Litd his armo_about her, aud wau Ligping off tho toars, und declaring that ho Toved her paesionatoly, And when Lo drove away to tho station that night ho had left his ring upon Lor fingor, and he liad biddon hor bo ready for Lor bridal'upon Lis roturn two montha honco, As ho established himself that night in his section of the slecping-car, lo folt, strungo as it may scom, botler untistiod than for o long timo before, Ilo decided that ho had actod rightly, and not only rightly, but mugnanimously, Ilo- nora lLud other intereats, other pleasuren, diu- tractions, frionds, sud lovers, but Amabol hud only himsolf. 1lo would writo to Ilonora, and closo the uffuir betwoon thom, or he would lat it slido, nnd mako things right when thoy met, He thought the mattor over, and wassuro ho would be happior with the gantlo litile Amaboel— thoro was somothing far more flattoring to his self-lovo in Amabel’s roverouce for himusa domi-god than in Ionora's loyo for him as o man. And ho pietured tho girl in the eplondor in which he would array Lier 3 his bride, and he heard hor somo night surprising his friends with that rieh, swact volco of iers, and ho foll asleop, That cithor of tho young womon would have dospisod him for his conduct to tho othor did not ocour to him; and Lo waa right, for con~ tempt would not havo abated Honora’s passion, .| and Amabel would havo felt hor love to bo but o much tho moro necessary to him, 'hat weok, a8 ugnal, Amabol wont to give ITo- nora Lior lesson, B8ho was near tho oud of the torm with all her pupils, and sho thought it bot- ter to finish naturally, and then tho money would bo of valuo to hor in makiug horsolt fli for n bride, Bhe must havo ono whito silk and ono black one, nt any rato, she snid; and eho had alroady Inid out nll whe had in the rm-ulluuu of tho whito ouo, which tho person with whom sho bonrdod was fitting for her, Bho was so_huppy ond 60 glad thut she could hardly keop loruelf from danoing as elio passed along ko slreot. Bho hind no thought of moking n secret of her bliss ; and it was during lonora’s lesson that, omphinsizing somo point of hor instruction, sho strotehod her fingor across tho page, and 1lohora aaw shining thoro the uup[vhlrmflthun deop-blue facots broaking inlo blood-red rays at thio angles oxl ity cutting—unw that Amabol wore Hentou's ring. It wag only by n suprome offort thon (hnt Honors kept hor self-coutrol, Iiut sho did, Bho folt harself siuking und falling, but sho clnohod tho edgo of 1o plano aud sk npight; and {amsunlly the bluod that tho shovle hnd sont curdling about hor honrt lud regained its oquis libvium, ‘Pho sight of thet ving bud not boon wholly unux}mntml by hor; sho had hoon muke Ing hor quiet invoatigations, and had divined that Ronton had been pallering with tho girl in all thet thno whon sho had beon walting for him to spenk decivively to hersol, Bho hud folt, to bosuro, (hat (hob wis over aud dono with since tha morning whon lio hada hor furo- well boforo Lis Journoy, and mado hor heurt heat 80 with joy n#bo slipped the handlerchiof, viug on lior own flgors it when days had plusnd without tho roceipt of u lino from him, sho had bognn to fonr that hiy fickleners had tho botter gount of him; sho Liad ronnoned that If somo kind fortuno wonld romove Amabol for a timo, all would bo jywoll. And now, na sho sab thoro gazing on t o napphiro, ovory thing that sho could do was to ropont over and over to horself, “1 must put hor out of tho wayl " Bho would malo purc of the thing firat, Blio looked up at Amabol's huppy faco. *Yon are wenripg Mr, Ronton's ring," tho nald, ealimly, T pm onpaged to Mr, Ronton,"” anawored tho triumphant gir), with o deop noft blush, T yupposo I noed not ask you, then, it you Liavo Lieard from liim sinco ko wont away 2 " “ Ohy ovory dny 1” goid Amabel, *Ifols o ood tomo | horo was somothing’ ni?wnlln‘: n tho 1(._:h-\‘u attitude ; nhio was quito lonore'y ago, and was hor tenchor, yob somoliow ocomed very much weaker and youngor; 8ho wna hialf COnACioNs, T’urhnpu, that sho had, though un- Wltflngl{, robbod the otlior of the love of & life- timo 3 sho scemed almost to aslk pardon as sho stood boaldo hor, with hor down-dropped hands clasped togother, and her down-dropped oyolidy volling tho deptit of horoyen, s it thoy might rovenl too much lmpvlnueu whon they lifted, 1o is 80 good to mo,” £aid Amabol. * How can ho holp it 2" said Honora, briefly, And sho looked ab tho gitl in hor indlgo-huod dress, with tho rich earnatlons and crenms of ber cloar dark skin, and tho smilo that brooded over her bliss, and” sho admired hor and hated bor togothor. ** T must put hor out of tho way,” ropeated Honora. And sho sat ropoating it long nfter Amabol had gone, **8lo hns no friends to In- quiro aftor her,” sho anid at last, ' And s for Tiim, bo will presently forgot] It ean only bo tho Infatuation of o momont that ia conquery tho purposo of years, Wove sho but removad, ho would return to mo and bo ag ho was beforo, Why should I let hor rob ma?" she cried alond. % Ho wos mino! 1lois minol It s only tho lamour of hor colors and lustres, hor lovely flesh ond blood, that obscures our love. A year with bor placid stupiditics and silly minauderies would vox his soul out of kis body, and sho too would bo merely wretchod. And I will do her no barm, indeed,” shke ndded, prosenily. ‘I I uhut her up half n dozen yoars sho willva in no worso plavery or prison Loundn than sho s now, a8 she goes through tho drudg- ery of her dreaty round of lossons., And whon sho is froo—I am rich—sho shall lave an annuity awailing hor that will sccure hor forover from caro and work, nnd sho will o still young, aud sho will_ fiud other lovers. What can sho know of lovo? What is her passion of two months esido mino, that has grown with my growth aud almn%flmnnd with my strongth? “Aud by that timo hig fato will have been sottlod. 1o will haye soarched for hor n little while, will havo failed, will havo como to mo for consolntion, wiil Dbavo fonnd it, and I will have my own ngainl " sho cried. V' Ilo wns minel Jlois minel Il shall bomino! " Aa sho alood ihero in tho sun- ehino, wlite, and with radiant eyos and a florce, strony smile, sbio was the picture of triumph an defianco, Wealth can _do many thingsin o great and wicked city. Ibcan hiro strong arms and hard henrts ; it ean have coaches waiting in the had- ow of appointed places to-night, if yestordny misged, and to-morrow if to-dny misses ; it can {mmlmun certificates of physiciana; it can socuro hio silence and the sorvices of the keepera of the ingano. And it did all ihat for llonorn. And when the iron gates had clangod behind hor rival, aud sbo kanow that till sho spoke the word tho irl would sioe 1o sunshine save shat which foll hrough o grato, sho sat down and awaited tho lover to rotain whom she bad wrought such ovil, The wild wrotchodnoss and woe of the wailing girl within thosa cruol walls, tho_struggles, tho n{zpunlu, the fruitlessofforts, tho deapair that was ekin to maduess—all theso things mattered not to Ionors now. Bho would not bo troubled b them. *Itniayns woll bo she as1,” sho said. €Tt hod to bo oue of us, What will ho think of hor? What Iwant him to think of hor—that she is false and vilo as sho ie fairl Bho is out of tho way, Come, Andrew Ronton, comol” But Amubel Bumei, in saying eho had not o friend in tho world, had reckonoed without her host,~or, rather, as wo_should say, hor host- asy 3 for tha person with whom sho had her homo lind not scon {he little maiden goingin and out, always g0 happy, so industrious, so Dright, without giving her many & kind ond lov- ing thought. Andnow whon tho child did not camo hiome, but hor music, her dresses, hor lot- tors, wore all lyiug in her room ae sho had left them, duy after day untouched, thoe good ywoman beeamo alurmed, visitod tho Clief of ITolico, turned ovor tho letters till slio found tho ad- dress, and wrolo to Andrew Ronton, and then want on finmhing the whito sille wodding-dross, though she dropped many a tear on tho seams, And 8o Audrow Ronton came—came sooner thian Lio was expocted, and unkuown at fisub (o any but the Chiof and the porson who had seut for him, whilo all bis hoart wau awake and alive ond eflsmo, It had needed but such athing to minke bim &_man; and_now, fixed of purposo, sleopless aud tireless, aud racked iith o thousand pangs, lio wan working out by day mud night tho sntvatfon of tho lost girl. It iu true, th Chiot Iind o suspicion, for Lis own part, thab it might Dbo Androw himself who had_spitited (Lo girl away, end was_quiclly working out that littls problom in tho dutk, “Bub Audrow Imow noth- ing of that, nor would ho huva carod if ho bad known. A choson {riond was with himnow, o acoro of koo dolectives followed Lis commands, and in the nighis whon Honora in her whito snt- infled sleop lay drenming of Lim us still far avay in the Westorn suows, lio was, porhaps, pussing under her window, as ho delved end virought out her secrot from the derk recossos of thocity's erime. Tho twvo months of Mr. Renton's promised stay in tho West had oxpited ab last, Hiu sistor, quite ignorant of all tho coil, hind told ITouora thnt o telegram from his agont had prepared hor to oxpoct him uow on any train, nnd she had de- cidod uot to postpone tho greab party sho had announced for his bivthday, “Ilo may como,” she gaid, “before it is over. And 1shall savoe tho now waltz for the last, o that you mey bavo it with bim, my doar. i'Amowr et La Mori— oli, tho air is perfectly ecstatic! There, it gooy thig way!" aud with that the giddy young matron had waltzed herself out of the room. ITonora went lato to that party, 1le was com- ing! Tor heart beat so at tho thought all day that eho could biardly movo, and she did nat put on her rougo, lost tho flush that grooted Lim ehould be redder then rouge. But at night sho was whito and ealm and statuesquo as sho lizd over boon, No ono that looked -at hor would have guosaed the riot about that heart, and not » line wpon hor perfect face showed the cone wseiousnoes of any ovil, told that n crimo lay be- hind its masls, and that sho carried about with her tho foul burdon of & murdored soul, ‘Ilo is comiug,” sho waa thinking, “Io will seo me boforo ho knows the tling bra gone; and tho absenco may baye roined all that, I shall danco with him; I shall regain my powerl Prosontly I ghall hear his stop, I sball hoar his dear voice, I shall touch his liand, I shall goo his facol" Bho kat just n littlo withdrawn from tho full blnzo of the’ light, rofusing to danco wilh any, though sho Lopt tho gayost group in tho room about Lier, Novoer Lud auy ono scen or heard her so brilllant; but sho Lnrdly luow whak #ho wue saying., Lvery norve was slrotched for tho mamont of his coming. Tho musis wonk sounding on doliciously, tho flowarn gavo up thoir intoxienliug odors, tho gleum of jowels aud tho sheon of cating moved boforo hor, all uncon- sclous of thom; sho saw nothing Dut tho door through which Audrow Itenton was to pasa, As shio sat there on tho low ottoman, hor whito bro- cndo, with tho pale blooms swimming ovor it, sprond around hor, with tho steady glow of hot carbunoles, witn tho bandeau of deop-red roscas in hor haik, she was as sumptuous and suporb a crenturo us ovor waited for u suitor to treada monsuro; aud sho know it. Dut thoe oveniug was woaring on, and at last, aftor a briot silouco from tho orcheolra, thoro stolo out tho flrat Lroathings of o low nnd far-off strain—n singlo Lorn sighing tho swoat coavolu- tions of the tune, soffencd and ro-cohood hy bassoon and lute, 8wollen by thae violing, till tho full band burat forth with the perfoct wmuslc of L' Amour et La Morl, snd just ab that momont B MUImr Wig l‘luluiufi rouud tho room that tho ono in whoss houor tho foto was given had ar- rived, It lmnscmm that tho varlous proups of tho room bhud guthorod {u:.t theu holwesn Houorn and the door, A gontleman Lont over hershoul- dor, speaking with hor, and hor eyes wero on her fan, whoxo filigreo silvor sticky "sho wau slowly shitling, 1oy Pulsuu woro boating with the mu- sie, bub sho did not know what the tuno was L' dmour ¢t La Mort. 8ho did not henr what tho admiror Londing thoro aboye hdr said, Sho did not seo Androw Nenton, tall and splandid and slatoly, nppronching hor with anothov on hin arin 3 sho did not fool his prosenco in tho reom, till his voico wont tho blood Lubbling through Lor veinn whilo o said, * Permit me, lionorn, to prosent Lo you my wifo,” and sho Tooked up to soo bridogroom “and brida—tho bridogroom gazing at horselt with oyes that plorcod hor liko swords ; the bride, wanted, fndoed, from tho round o dimplod g ' #ho used to bo, bt still with o rieh red mantling hor dark cheely, wiih a lovely light shining i hor dark o, ud sho olasped her husband’s arm with hoth hor it tlo hnuds, and surveyed her enemy. Honorn' th eamo quicl; & palo color flu tored up hor cheek onea moro und Tofl it agais hor heurt, diko o groat {rip-hummer, was hoating out itn blows on hioy breast nsit forged tho life of ihet noxt minute; hev oyen foll, and sho never Jooked wp again, But uho rose, and, bowlugs hor hiead, bont hofore hwide and groow in ono long agnin In concluding it. Ior handa atill hold the filigroo sticks of the fan, though tho sticks wora orushed betweon hor fingors; hor head wns atlll bowod; tho smilo was fastoned upon lior linughty 1ip. Peoplo turned to look at Lhier an aho romained go that instant, fey and atill, with the emllo, the bont hend, tho fan, the flicker of tho wax-lights glancing in lior ljnwolfl, rontloss whoro all was flxed, the faco bianching whitor and grayor than tho nnciout frost, *'Iho man bns choson warm flash and blood rather than marble,” whisporad one, “Blio islikon honu- titul staluol “said anothor. *Liko?" criod & third, running forward, as tho groups broko up sud senttorad in o lorror, and tho ccatatio musla h“fl'ffl élaull nm}tntt)ppmlr—“ l}l{lu in n ntatuol” nd it wns quito truo; for Ilo doad.—Harpes Weokly, I ERE tioey —_— OUTSIDE THE FOLD, Yom walllug, over walting, for tho days that never como s 1 am sitting, worn and wonry, ' itting; worn end wosey, 'midst Titoasldow, o'or tho Last is mourning, a e all untold : #ant e Xuiic Earth has frown so etrangoly gloomy, Tol it e fae, oo BIo0R ALokD T30, Tawl; Tsening.sbadows gathee round mo, drrker shadowa sliroud my soul Thoras bub ono Tift of Bunlight atreaming from that far-off gonl 3 Bholl T ovor reach that portal? walk within thosa For T ncry-Sastebiog—valting, Tak 'm weary—wr lng-—-walling, 0 m s tho foids B ST e Through tho night T dresm of Heavon, and my loveld anod walliug thiora; But, alual it fe but dreaming, for I waka to anxious enro, Thers T kuiow thero comea no eighing,—onl n llan untold, R Tead mo (o thoso aun-lit > mo ia ors, munllt pastures, Toko mo, Lord, 18 thero room for ono poor wandorer, who hug, wanton, slrayed nwny? And forgiveness for o lost ono, wandering farthor . overy day? Tender Bliophord, wilt thou hoar mo? T am lonelyj am cold, With thoso-slioltring arms support mo, Lord, wiin ths forg,” “reort mo, Take mo, Mozk!, TLear tho kindly welcomo, Can T dare to ene 2 who tin 50 prono {0 evil—T who blindly grapo fn Now tho ponns of tho bleesed vibrato om tho harps of o} £ can flear tho angols siugiug,_Tako me, Lord, witts T thofond, o B Y, £ Bt = 4 HUMOR. A Wabash oditor roturns thanks for a centiv pede sont him hK mail from Toxnn, being tho tirat cont of any kind ho had seen for montha. —8cruples. — English tourist — “ My man, what's your chargo for rowing mo ncross thd Y'rith 7" Bontman—* Weol, uir, T was jist thinj- in’ I eannn brenk the Sawbath-dny for no loss than £'Ttecn shullns | *—Punch, ~—A Dennington daughter, whose domestio natura is oque) to lior natural simplicity, was ine vited by an Advent oxhorter to join his sect, gct hor white robe ready, and pieparo to ascond, T enn't," tho maiden roplied ; * fathor and mother aro going up, aud somobody must stay to soo to tho cattle.” —A. Cinclanati editor, who has indulged in o heavy lfe-insuranco, 18 enid to Vo folowed whenover Re g;:es r:-illshil:'xg by soveral insuranca agents, .affoctionalely beoring lifo-proservers and sun-umbroellag, ¥ s —Enthusiastic Pedentrinn.—‘Am I on the sight road for Stratlord—Shakspeara’s town, you Lnow, my man, You've often heard of Shaks-~ poare ?" " Rustio.—'*Lics, Boyouhe ?"—Punch, —A Clay County, Kontucky, auctioncer pulled out o rovolvor and announced: “If euy mem goes frolicking around while the ealo is going on, I ghall interrupt him in his enreer. Put tlfiem ,nhobguuu ovor by tho fonco an' leave 'om ar.” —An sfl'ecunf incident occurred recontly i Paris. Hovoral Frouch cooks, tempted by high pay, loft Paris for Now Yorls. Iudced, when tho cher de euising ol the Tuileries doparted, sacioty doomed it an jrroparablo loss, *“1lo was a mun of groat ond uncloudod intolloct, with acuta viows os o tho clenrness of soup; ‘s fino judgo of goneral offect; and, as a composer, has raraly had his equal}” —*“Icllo, Bill!" eriod a hoot-hlack to n coms [enion yosterduy, + hourd yer old dnd hnd broko is leg.” ¢ o did that,” foplied the * shiner” addressed, “and wasn't it bully for me, thougl ! 1o was going to wallop ma that very night." ~-Much amusement 1s caused in Now York by small cards gratuitously circulated about tho streotn with o smull corls attached by o siring, and baving tho following printed upon it in lurgo Jottora : *'Plio most horrible deatht ia to bo tatk~ ed to dontly, Lo prevent LLo above torrible futa woe_the patont life-prencrvor attached to this card, Directions—Put tho cork in your ear.” A talo of two Norrigtown husbands: Ono, npon leaving Lib offico tho ofher might, stoppod at o book-store, paid $1.25 for n nesw articlo, and went homo and proreuted his wito with ** A Pair of Bluo Eycs.” Tho other, after leaving lin offico, stoppod at & saloon, paid §1.25 for vhisky, and weut home and gavo his wifo a pair of blacl ~-Exclusivencss.—ITost—"' Nico party, nin't it, Major Lo Hpunger? ‘Igh and low, rich and poor—miost peoplo nra wolcom to this 'onso! Thiy is *Liberty 'All.’ thisis] No falso pride or ‘umbug about el L'm a sol-mado mun, Zam ‘Fho Major—¢ Very nice party, indoed, Mr. Shod~ dyl Tow proud your fathorand mothor must feol! Aro they here #” Host—' Woll, nol 'Ang it all, you kuow, ono mustdraw the line somes whers I —Drecautions eqninst the cholora aro very numorous ab presont. "aking all tho ndvico given, we learn that if & man eats nothing, drinks o liquors, drinke no ice-wator, drinka no warin wator, drinks nothing elue, woars flanncls, bathes threo times a day, keops his back yard clean, peys lis taxes, nyoids water, drinke brandy, onts ripe fruit, wears unolhing, does not smoke, and follown such other mothods of provoution as his common oouse moay dictats, Lo need have no fears of cholern, —Au illustration of Irish simplicity is afforded by the roply of & caudidate for (he oftice of teaclier. 'Cho examinor wag ondoavoring to olicit tho candidate's idea of tho market valuoof labor with roferonco to domnad and su?pl 5 but, bo- g bafllod, ho put & question in thds slmple form . ¢ If thero are in your villugo two shoomakors with just sufliciont employmont to enahle {hom tolivo tolorably, aud no moro, what would fol~ low if & third shoomalker sot up in tho samo vil lage ?" “ What would follow, sir ?" achoed the candidato; “ why, o fight, to bo suro,” —Danbury nows paragraphs: ** A Danbury man, who I8 rather unfortunately married, be~ ing requested by his wifo to have the ico-man atop there, said it was seold enough now at the Douso to suit him, and thon dodged. ‘“Altttlo boy on Woostor streot foll from & atoop on Thuradey, and rocoived sovero braiscs. i father was seut for, and, on arriving homo, found thirty-one women in the houso. It took tho mother of tha boy fivo Jays to got the vari~ ous bottles of crmphor aud hartshorn to thoir rlql\l.f\ll ownors, ¢ A West streot family had a little pocial gath- cring, Monday evening. During (he ovening tho noad of tho hougo volunteored to crack somo walnuts, but eracked his thumb instead, and tho wainut from which the hammer glunced flow agaivet n ton-dollar vaso, and knooked in its ab- domon, ‘Thon tho Liond of tho Louso turow the bowmmor through a five seroon, kicked tho pau of welnuts across tho floor and into the logy of tho ministor, and went lnto the kitchon to deliver an addross. The party broko up. “Whon thoro is nob u breath of sir stirring, and you arc in dangor of stifling, attowmpt to light & clgar out doors, and you will Lo sur~ prisod at tho breozo that will start up. Wo hava soon n man try this oxporimont in a dend enim, and by the timo ho had seratched thirteon matehes it way voally 8o windy as to bo uncoms forlablo. o ittlo girls aro keoping honwo now oud inviting othor little girls (o tufo tes with them, T'ho tea consiuts moutly of warm wator served in miniaturo woodon dishos, and nslico of proon applo with a worm in it. Lhe litilo givls drink tho ton and chiow the n‘rpl with propor solomuis ty. Thon thoy, *Iuhan't!* ‘ You're just ns mean a8 you can bo{® T shall go Tight fomo, now ! * aud kiek each othor ou tho logs, aund disperse,” i st e it Rffocts of Ohalybento Waters ‘When Murphy first Lought bis farm in Lancas« tor County, Lo was uot awaro that all tho water ot tho promises wau_utrongly impregnatod with iron, But when Lo dienlk thint elulybonto wator for five or uix mouthe his systom wus #0 thor- onghly charged with ivon that whon e wonld wako up in tho mcu'nlnt: ho would find _that the bedstond had gradunll { shitted avound during tho night until the head pointed north. Anad tho chiktron's beds ull porformed the snmo mmnouver. Without taking ~ warning by this ocour- vonce, {ho fumily contluod to diiul tho wator wmtil, ono fautal oveniug, Mra, Murphy bad_boon honse-sloaning, nnd that night slio and I\lurm%mm tho chilitron loy down in the snme yoom, No sooner were they in e hovizontal position than all their hoads awnng avonnd sudidenly o tho northorn ond of tho chamber whore o slove stood, and tho noxt fustunt tho wholo fivo of thom wera_drawn violently aguinst (o ot slove, nud held thora by mngnetio attraction, Marphy suitorod worst Vecauno o was buld, Iat Muvs, Murphy and the ehtldron losb every huir on their Loads, sud Syhon tho family sokd ont und moved away, overy