A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 300, 19 December 1877, Page 4

A ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.

There is at tha present moment incarcerated in the Conciergerie at Paris a young Servitu whose love should be of the truest, if the troublous nature of its course can be taken as a criterion. Ysef,. whose mishaps are awakening such a fund of womanly pity, lost hia heart to a Roft-eyad Mussulman beauty just before the outbreak of the war in £he East. Countless as were the obstacles which an adverse fate threw in his path, he surmounted them ail, and at length the day dawned which saw him en route for Constantinople to claim his bride. A few hours previous to the tying of the nuptial knot, however, there surged up an insuperable barrier to the marriage in the person of a Turkish gentleman, whose suit bad been formerly approved by the lady's family, but whose unaccountable disappearance had caused him to be mourned for as dead, A sease of honor induced the damsel's father to support the claims of the authentic Turk in preference to Ysef's who was but a naturalised subject of the Sultan. The latter, in despair at the parental verdict, and encouraged by the tears a pair of bright eyes shed in his behalf picked a quarrel with his rival who had reappeared so malapropos, and stabbed him to the heart. Terrified at the crime, but loving still the criminal, Taef'g betrothed entreated him to hide away in Paris, whither she swore to follow him upon the first opportunity. Justice, however, has proved swifter on foot than the maiden, and the unfortunate Ysef was pounced upon a short tint a ago by two members of the French police, whose mission it was to place him in durance vile until the extradition formalities can be accomplished. As Ysef has been condemned to death in Constantinople, it is presumable that he supplicates Mahomet to prolong the above-mentioned formalities indefinitely. In the meantime, his captivity is rendered as endurable as may be, by little daily presents of cigars, wine, or flowers GntH'Sd to the interesting prisoner by sympathising members of the fair sex, who seem to consider the poignarding incident in the romance as a bagatelle, which in no way detracts from the merits of ita principal hero.