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MAYNARD'S HOTEL,
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A THRILLING TALC OK HIGH AND LOW LIFE.
(Those of our readers who have ever seen
acted, or have read, ihat beautiful modern
drama of Sir Edward Bulwer Ly tton, '• The'
Lady of Lyons," need look no farther than
the following sketch lor its fonndation ]
I was born in one of those little hamlets
situated in the neighborhood of Montclmart
in the south of France. My father had made
many a fruitless effort to raise himself above
indigence. His last resource in his old age
arose from the exercise of a talent which he
had acquired in his youth—that of bellows
making. This, too, was the humble profes
sion which I was destined to follow. Reing
endowed by nature with quick and lively
faculties, both of mind and body, I soon
grew skillful in my trade, and having an am
bitious spirit, set off for Lyons to prosecute
my calling there. I became a great favorite
with the chamber-maids, who were iny chief
employers, and whom my good looks, and
youth, interested in my favor.
One evening, however, as I was returning
home after my day's round, I was accosted
(,y four well dressed young men, who threw
out a few pleasantries on uiy profession--
which I auswtrsd in a style of good-humored
raillery that seemed to surprise and to please
them. I saw thetn look significantly at one
another, and heard one -f them say, " This is
our mau." The words alarmed me, but my
fears were speedily dispelled. 44 Perouon, ! >
said one, 4 ' you shall sup with us. We have
a scheme which may do you good. If you
do not agree to it we shall ii"t harm you,
but only ask you to keep our secret. Do
not be afraid, but come with us."
Seeing all of them to be gentlemen in ap
pearance, I did not hesitate to accept of the
offer. They cenducted me through a nutn
her of cross streets, and at last entered a
handsome house, in an apartment of which
we found six other young men, who appear
ed to have been waiting impatiently for my
conductors. A few explanatory words pass
ed respecting me, aud soon afterwards we
sat down to supper. Being young and
thoughtless and light hearted, I gava way to
the enjoyment of the hour, and vented a suc
cession of pleasantries which seemed to high
ly please my chance companions. But they
all grew eilent and thoughtful ere long, and
finally one of them addressed me thus :
" The ten persons whom you see before
you, are all engravers, and citizens of Lyons.
We are all in good circumstances, and make
a very handsome living by our occupation.
We are all attached to one another, and
formed a happy society, till love stepped in
to disturb us. In the street of St. Dominic
there lives a picture merchant, a man of re
spectable station, but otherwise an ordinary
personage. lie has, however, a daughter—
a creature possessed of every accomplish
ment. and endowed ui;h every grace; but
all those amiable qualit.es are shaded by one
defect—pride, insupportable pride. As an
example of the way in which this feeling has
led her to tieat others, 1 will own that I
myself paid my addresses to her and was ap
proved of by her fa*her as one iy b>rth and
circumstances much their superior. But
what was the answer which the insolent girl
herself gave to my suit?—'Do you think,
sir, that a voung woman like me was bo n
f< r nothing better than to be the wife of an
engraver ?"
•' Her great charms and her pride have
been felt by us all," continued the speaker ;
" and we hold that she ha? east a slur both
on us and our profession. We have, there
fore, resolved to show this disdainful girl,
that 6he has not indeed been born to the
honor of being the wife of an engraver.—
Now will you, [addressing me] venture to
Income the husband of a charming woman,
who, to attain perfection, needs to have her
pride mortified and her vanity punished ?"
" Yes," answered I, spurred on by the ex
citement of the moment ; '• I comprehend
what you would have me do, and I will ful
fil it in such a manner that you shall have
no reason to blush for your pupil.'''
The three months followed this very
strange scene, were wholly occupied with
preparations for the part I was to perform
Preserving the strictest possible secrecy, ray
confederates did their best to transform me
from a plain bellows mender into a fine gen
tlemen, Bathing, hair-dressers, &c., bro't
tny person to a fitting degree of refinement,
while every day one or other of the engrav
er# devoted himself to the task of teaching
mo music, drawing, and other accomplish
ments; and nature had furnished me with a
disposition to study, and a memory so re
tentive, that my friends were astunished at
the progress of their disciple. Thoughtless
of all else, I felt the deepest delight in ac
quiring thee new rudiments of education.—
But the lime came when 1 was to be made
sensible, fur the first time, of the true na
ture of the task I had entered upon. The
confederates, at length, thought me perfect,
and in the character of the rich Marouis of
Kouperon, proprietor of large estates in Dau
phiny, I was installed in tho first hotel of
Lyons It was under this title that I pre
sented mvaelf to the picture dealer in St.
Dominie atreet. I made a few purchases
from him, and seemed anxious to purchase
wore. After a little intercourse of thia kind
he 08& mowing sosl n# word that he bad
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"TO SPEAK HIS THOUGHTS IS EVERY FREEMAN'S RlGHT.*•—Thomas Jefferson.
TUNKHANNOCK, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1864.
just receiven a superb collection ofengfav
'ngs from Rome, and begged me to call and
see them. 1 did so, and was received, not
by him, but by Aurora. This was the first
sight I had got of the lovely girl, and, for
the first time in my life, my young and pal
pitating heart felt the power of beauty. A
new world unfolded itself before my eyes.—
I soon forgot my borrowed part; one senti
ment absorbed my soul—one idea enchained
tny faculties. The fair Aurora perceived her
triumph, and seemed to listen with compla
cency to the incohetenl expressions of pas
sion which escaped my lips.
That interview fixed my destiny forever !
The intoxication of enjoying her presence
hurled me on, blind to everything else.
For severel months I saw her every day,
and enjoyed a state of happiness only damp
ened by the self accusing torments of solita
rr hours, and by the necessity I was under
of regularly meeting my employer?, who fyr
nished me with money, jewels, and every
thing I could require.
At length, Aurora's father gave a little fete,
in the Country, of which, evidently, I was the
hero. A moment occurred, in which, thought*
le*s of all but my love, I threw myself a suit
or at her feet. She heard me with modest
dignity, while a tear of joy, which dimmed
for a moment her fine eyes, convinced me
that pride was not the only emotion which
agitated her heart,—yes, I discovered that I
was beloved !
I was an imposter ; but heaven is my wit
ness, 1 deceived her not without remorse
lu her presence I remembered nothing but
herself; but iu the stillness of solitude, so
phistry and passion disappeared, leaving a
dreadful perspective before me ! When I as
sociated the idea of Aurora with the misera
b!e fate that was soon t. fall upon hei ; when
I figured to myself her delicate hands em
ployed in preparing the Coarsest nourishment
I shrunk back with horror or started up
with a cold p. rspiration. But self-love would
come to my aid, tho't, if she truly love me—
she might yet be happy. I would devote
my life, I swore, to the task of strewing
dowers along her path. But all my hopes—
all inv fear s, cannot be told. Suffice it to
say. her father believed me when I leprtsenf
ed my estates as being in Daupfuny, & dis
tant province. I would not allow a farihing
of Aurora's portion to be settled otherwise
than on herscll: so there was one baseness
of which I was not guilty.
We were married. At the altar a shiver
ing ran through all my veins : a general trep
idation seized my whole frame—and I shoul
undoubtedly have sunk to the earth iu a
flood of tears, had not some one come to mj
re>cue. Tie silly crowd mistook the last
cry of expiring virtue for an excess of sensi
bility.
A fortnight after the marriage—as had
been arranged hy 111}' employers, at whose
mercy 1 was—we started for Montelmarijiny
unfortunate bride believing that we were go
ing to a far different place. Several of the
engravers were themselves our attendants—
disguised and acting as courtiers to our
magnificent equipage.
The awful moment of exposure arrived; —
and when it did come, proved more terrible
than ever I had anticipated.
The engravers made the carriage' to be
drawn up before a mean and miserable cot
tage, at the door of which sat my humble
but venerable father. Now came the awful
disclosure. The poor, deceived and surpris
ed Aurora was handed out. The engravers
came up ; they pulled off their disguises ;
and he whom Aurora had so pointedly refus
ed. exclaimed to her :
4 'No, madam, no, you have not been boru
or brought up for an engraver—such a lot
would have done too much honor to you.—
A bellows mender is worthy of you,—and
such is he whom you have made your bus
band !"
Trembling and boiling with rage, I would
have replied ; but the engravers entered the
coach, and, like the shifting scene in a
theater, a'.l our grandeur disappeared wifb
them.
Poor Aurora scarcely heard what had been
sai l. The tiuth had flashed upon her, and
she sank back in a swoon. Recollect that I
had now acquired a considerable share of sen
sibility and delicacy from my late life. At
thai cruel moment I trembled alike at the
thought of losing the woman I adored, and of
seeing her restored to life. I lavished on
her the most tender cares, yet almost wish
ed tha/ those cares might be unavailing.—
She recovered at length her senses ; but the
moment her frenzied eyes met mine—"Mons
ter !" she exclaimed, and again became in
sensible. I profited by her condition to re
move her from the sight of those who had
gathered around, and to place her on a straw
couch. Here I remained beside her until she
opened her eyes; mine shrunk from her
glance The first ue she made of her speech
was to interrupt the broken exclamations of
love, shame, shame and remorse, which fell
from my Hps, and to beg to be left alono for
a time. The niece of the curate of the par
ish, however, who chanced to be by, remain
ed beside her, and the poor young victim of
my villainy, for she was but eighteen, eeem
ed very glad of her attentions.
How shall I describe the horrible night
which then psed 1 It wai not on my own
own adcoant that 1 feared. She alooe waa
in my thoughts. I dreaded above all, for my
love still predominent, to tee that heart
alienated whose tenderness was necessary to
ray existence, to read coldness ia that eye
on whose look tny peace depended. But
could it be otherwise ? Had I not basely,
vilely darkened all the prospects of her life,
and overwhelmed her with intolerable shame
and anguish ?
Tnat night was a punishme nt which
would have wiped out any lesser sin. Fre
quently, it may be believed, I sent to know
how Aurora was. She was calm, they told
me ; and, indeed, to my surprise, she entered
in the morning the room where I was. She
was pale, but collected. I fell before her on
the ground, and spoke not. "You have de
ceived me." she said ; "it is on your future
conduct that my forgiveness must depend.—
Do not take advantage of the authority you
have usurped. The niece of the curate
has ofiered me an asylum. There I will
remain till this matter can be thought of
calmly."
Alas, these were soothing but deceitful
words ! Within a day or two after this event,
the interval of which I spent in forming wild
hopes for the future, I ieceived at once two
letters. The first was from the engravers,
the cause of my exultation and my fall.—
They wrote to tue that my '•acquaintances
had begot in them a friendship for me; that
they had each originally subscribed a certain
sutn of money for the execution of the plot ;
that they wished not to ca r ry their revenge
too far ; and that they would supply me with
money and everything oeccessary for enter
ing into some business, and insuring the
creditable snpport of myself and Aurora "
The other letter was from Aurora. "Some
remains of pity," she said " which I feel for
you, notwithstanding y our conduct, induce
me to inform you that I am now in Lyons.—
It is mv intention to enter a convent, which
will rid me of your presence; but you will
do well to hold yourself in readiness to ap :
pear before every tribunal in France till I
have found one that will do me justice and
break the chain ia which you have bound
your victim."
This letter threw me into dispair. I hur
ried to the curate's but could learn nothing
of Aurora's retreat, although I became as
6ured that the curate and his niece, despis
ing my condition, had been the earnest advi
sers of the step Aurora had taken. I then
hastened to Lyons, where the affair had now
created a great sensation. I lived unknown'
however, rnd obscure, and saw only the en
gravers, who, nrtwitbstanding the pa?e plot
which they had through me effected, were
men of not ungenerous dispositions. As
i hey had driven ine out of my former means
ot hveliuood. 1 conceived myself at liberty to
accept a sum which they offered me to enter
in'o trade with. They advised me how to
dispose of it at once, and I laid it out in way
which speedily, and without trouble to me
augmented it greatly. Meanwhile the father
of Aurora had made every preparation for
annulling the marriage. This could be done
only by detailing the treachery which had
been practiced. Never, perhaps, was court
house more crowded ihan that of Lyons 011
the day on which the case was heard. Au
rora herself appeared, and rivited the eyes of
all present, not to speak of my own. L T n
known and unseen, I shrunk into a corner
like a guilty thing. The counsel for Aurora
6tated the case, and pleaded the victim's
cause with 60 much eloquence as to draw
tears to my eyes. No counsel arose for me ;
and Aurora, who merely sought a divorce,
without desiring to inflict that punishment
which she might easily have brought down
on the offenders, would at'onco have gained
her suit had not one man risen to speak for
me. It was one of the engravers, the one
who had been refused, as mentioned, by
Aurora. He made a brief pleading for me,
he praised my character, he showed and c> n
fessed how I had been tempted and how I
fell. "Yes, madam," said he, "the laws tnay
declare that you are not his wife, but you
hove been the wife of lis bosom. The con
tract may be annulled, and no stain may rest
upon yon. But a stain may be cat upon
another Can you, will you throw the blot
of illegitamacy upon one even more inocent
than yourself ?" This appeal was under
stood, and was not made in vain ; the tremb
ling Aurora exclaimed, —"No, no !" and the
tears fell fast as she spoke.
The marriage was not annulled—was no
longer sought to be annulled. But while the
contract (which I had signed with my own
name, believed by thetn to be the famiy name
of the Marquis of Rouperon) was declared
void, it was also determinad that Aurora
should remain unmolested by the adventurer
who had so far deceived her. Every legal
precaution was takeu that I should have no
contiol over her or her affairs.
After this event I did not remain long in
Lyons where I heard my name everywhere
branded with infamy. Master, by the means
I have related, of a considerable snm, I went
to Paris, where I assumed a foreign name—
I entered into business, and, more to drown
remembrance than from any other cause,
pursued it with an ardor which few have
evincd under like circumstances. The wild
est speculations were those whioh attracted
tne most, and fortune favored me in a moat
remarkable way. I bcoarne the head of a
flourishing commercial house, and are fire
years had passed away, had amassed consid
erable wealth. I dared not think neverthe
less, of attempting to go near her, until it
chanced that I had it in my power materially j
to serve a banker in Lyons, who pressed me
much to paydiira a visit. After much unea
siness and anxiety I resolved to accept the
invitation. Once tnure 1 entered Lyons, and
011 this occasion with an equipage which was
not borrowed, though as handsome as my
former one. My friend the banker, on being
questioned, told me that Aurora still lived in
the convent, was admired for her reserved
propriety of conhuct, and for her unremit
ting attention to her child—her boy ; but he
also told me that her father had just died,
leaving her aim >st dependent on the charity
of the abbeß9. This recital excited in me the
most lively emotions. I took an opportunity
soon afterwards of visiting one of the engra
vers; who scarcely knew me, changed as I
was, hut who received me warmly. 1 re
quested him to assemble the creditors of the
father of Aurora, and to pay his debts, giv
ing him funds for that purpose. I told also
to purchase some pieces of furniure wliich
I knew to be prized by Aurora.
Every hour of my stay in Lyons strengt
ened my desire to see my wife,and at least to
fold my b.y iu my arms, he feeling at length
became irresistable, and I revealed myself to
the banker, beseeching him to find some way
of taking me to the convent. His astonish
ment to find in me the poor, much spoken of
bellows-mender, wa~ beyond description.—
Happily, however, he was acquainted with
the abbess, and assured me that it was easy
for me at least to obtain a sight of my wife.—
Ere an hour passed away my friend had ta
ken me there. I was introduced as a Paii
merchant, and I beheld, with emotions
unspeakable, my wife seated in the convent
parlor, with a lovely child a sleep on her
knee, in conversation with her venerable
friend. Aurora, now twenty-three y ears of
age, seemed to be more lovely than ever. I
had purposely wrapped myself closely up,
and she knew me not, though I perceived an
involuntary start when she first saw me. as
if my presence reminded her cf some once
familiar object I could not speak ; my
friend maintained all the cenversation. But
But the boy awoke ; he saw strangers pres
ent, and descended from bis morher's knee.
Looking at me and my friend for a moment,
he came forward to me. O. what were my
feelings when I found myself covered with
the sweet caresses, the inocent kisses, of my
child ! An emotion, which I had no power
to subdue, made me rise hastily, and throw
myself, with my child in my arms, at the feet
of my pale and trembling wife.
" Aurora! Aurora!" 1 exclaimed in brok
en accents, " your child claims (rom you a
father! O, pardon ! pardon !" The child
clasped her knees, and seemed to plead with
me. Aurora seemed ready to faint. Her
lips quivered, and her eyes were fixed, as if
in stupor, upon me ; a flow of tears came to
her belief, and she answered my appeal by
throwing herself into my arms. " I know
not," she sobbed, ' whether you again de
ceive me ; but your child pleads too power
fully—Aurora is yours !"
This event closes my history. I found
Aurora much improved by adversity, and I
have tasted a degree of happiness with her
such as no penitence for my past offences
could ever make me deserving of.
Only one incident in my history, after my
reconciliation with Aurora, seems worthy of
attention. I took my son and her with me
to Piris, but at the same time, seeing it to
be my wife's wish, bought a small country
house near Lyons, for her - Sometimes we
spent a few weeks there, and -one occasion
she invited me to go down with her to be
present at a fete for which she had made
preparations. Who were our guests? The
ten engravers who Were the original cause of
all that bad passed ! Tt was indeed a day of
prido to me when I heard Aurrora thaDk
ihein for the happiness which under the agen
cy of a wonder working Providence, they
had been the means of conferring upon her.
Tf."vf A> a livley village in Illinois they
have a benevolet association, one of whose
objects is to watch with and take care of it?
sick members. Last Fall, an unmarried lady
was admitted to membership. In a couple of
months she was blessed wiih a bright-eyed
babe, and was very sick. Some of the young
lady members expressed to the chief officer
of the association their indignation, and
asked him if he really tl o't it their duly to
visit the unfortunate one—" Well," said he,
after much deliberation 44 I suppose not.
You are not obliged to watch where there is
a contagioas disease!"
JC3T*Ladt worti-t Monatgce' the famou#
wit and beauty, made nhe most sarcastic
observation that was ever published about
her sex. "It goes far," said my lady, 44 to
reconcile mo to being a woman, when I reflect
that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying
one! 4 ' what if a man had said that ? But see
how another lady, the unhappy rounteas of
Landsfelt, inverted the sentiment and turned
the satire into the most delicate and gener
ous of compliments* " I never behold a beau
tiful woman," said Lola Montes in one of her
lectures',, but I fell in love with her myself,
end wish I were a man ibat I might utarry
hr!
TERM a: 01.00 ran A-IMIrtJM
TUB RIGHT OF WAY.
The following clipped from an exchange,
is as applicable to thia region, -ai the place
for which it was originally written :
" Can anybody explain satisfactorily why
a lady meeting a gentleman on the side walk
should insist upon turning him off into the
gutter? It has grown to be the custom,
when people thus encounter,' Dot being-ac
quainted, for a lady to run a gentleman down
at once, unless he gets out ol the way. She
deviates not an inch from an air line, but
ignores all knowledge of the existence or
presence of a body approaching in the oppo
site direction. There is something positive
ly disgusting in this practice. Sometimes
you meet three or four ladies—girls, perhaps
not out ol their teens,—forming a platoon
across th? whole breadth of the walk. They
pay no more attention to you, than if you
were a shadow, that might be passed over
without any sense of contact. You scud
down 10 the curbstone, and await the transit
of the avalanche of orinoline. VYhy should
this be submitted to ? Why should not one
of these females, recognizing your bodily pres
ence and right to the use of the pavement 1 ,
drop behind the others, and permit you to
avoid the humiliating display of your insig
nificance on the edge of the curbstone or
down in the gutter? These examples of
what we consider downright vulgarity, are
of constant occurrence. It often happens
that mere chits, not out of panteletta, bear
square dowu upon the ogtogenariais and
compel him to the oblique movement to
avoid a collision."
Before the opposition party run af
ter abolitionism they tried frequently to
make political capital by a perversion of the
clause in the Constitution which gave to ne
grus a two-thirds representation. They said
that slaveholders had three votes for every
five 1 f their negiv.es. They knew it was false,
but the truth troubled them so much that
they held themselves justified in the utter
ance of the falsehood: Times have changed
since then, and the same fellows now propose
to give, in reality to every slaveholder or
"any other man" in the slave States, ten
votes for every negro. The one-tenth propo
sition of Old Amounts to this—nothing more,
nothing less.
LEGAL DEFIANCE.— Two eminent members
of the Irish bar, Messrs- Doyle and Yelver
ton, quarreled so violently, that from words
they came to blows. Doyle, the more pow
erful, (with the fist at least) knocked down
his adversary twice, exclaiming with vehe
mence, "D n you, you scoundrel, I'll
make you behave yourself like a gentleman.
To which. Yelverton, rising, answerd with
equal indignation, "No, Sir, never, I defy you.
I defy you !"
A HINT FOR LECTURERS —How to get np
"a storm of enthusiasm:" If ail other resorts
fail, say "Copperhead." It is the silliest ex
pression in the world, to be sure, but it is a
"6itre thing.", As soon as they hear it every
Abolition nineopoop in the hall will prick up
his ears, give his body a shake, set his heels
in motion, and tender you a double round of
applause, such as the wisest sentences and
strongest patriotism -.night strive in vain to
elict.
£3TAn afibrt was made in C-.ngress the
other day to obtain from the President and
Secretary of war, a list of the Persons now
languishing in American prisons and bastlles,
fur pollLical or State reasons. The resolution
was objected to by the republicans, and
therefore failed. If a nigger had bten put off
the cars, there would have been a terrible
row and investigation. But poor " White
Trash" has come to be of no account.
ONLY ONE PARTY.— Wo beg leave to re
mind our abolition friends that only "one
party" is allowed in time of war. Let Lin
coln inen and Chase men, and Fremont men
'silence their pre' ty difference in the presence
"f the great rebellion, when the life of the
nation is at stake." " If there are differancea
opinion among them, let them wait and sat,
tie them when the war is over.**
A clergyman, at an afternoon service- •
was asked to read a notice for a woman's
rights lecture, which he dM in thia wise j '
At half past six o'clock, at the Jscbool house
in the first district, a hen will attempt to
Crew'
THE LAST SLAVE IN PENNSYLVANIA -HANNAH
Kelley, belived to be the last slave in peon-i
sylvanis, died at Crots Creen township Wash-,
ingtou county, on the 15th ult. at the ad*,
vanoed age of 109 years.
iy No man hath a thorough taste of .-
prosperity to whom adveraity never hap
pened.
ft-y If men show their fhlth by their
works, the faith of a good many would seem
to he iu the devil
M D<> yoq see anything ridiculous in
thia wig 1" said a brother judge to
' Nothing bat the head/' hotbed'
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