AN INCIDENT OF PARIS LIFE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2014, 18 June 1875, Page 2

AN INCIDENT OF PARIS LIFE.

' Lucy' Hooper' sends th« following' to the Philadelphia' Press:— 01" Let me mention-.a-little incident which created much merriment in a certain set here lately. It appears that there is a pretty little; creature who has bestowed ~- itpon herself the cognomen of Diane do ■. •Bagatelle, with whom awell known young yiscount is madly in ' lore. Mile* Diane is a- very romantic.iyoung-lady, with-ia taste, .for-the plays and, novels'of ,-tHe ! younger-Dumas; and' especially.-for.,tbe 'Dame aux Camelias.! v So she--was not surprised when one day the card of the Count de X , the father of the viscountin question,:was'handed to=her, and an elegant elderly, gentleman, fault. Jessly dressed and with the red ribbon of tho Legion of Honor at his buttonhole, was ushered into her.boudoir.,-, -/---• •, - " • My son lores Mademoiselle",' began the Count further, preface., . , • " 'I know it,"sighVdDiane."'" l tV'rffi „,:?•.He has. -f—£.. . .. .., t ... "A.sister?'; exclaimed 'the ladj^K,men^berinj; the.tiijferTiew between -.Marguerite Gauvier arid' the elder Dura!.', a " No, < not a .sister,,, butr a,cousin--nis cousin' .Blanche,: tor whom^ ■ he has .been betrothed for years. She pines and weeps, and youj Mademoiselle, 5 youC and;<your fatal charms are the, cause.' , " • Alas I" iaia :Dlane, Reeling herself. Doche^nd j Blanche v Eierson into one.-in real earnest^,, '[""] ,n ~ "" 'Your sensibility does you honour. -Will you break with my son once and for ever?-And, f I r if.two. hundred : thousand francs—' " ~""" '"*'" " '"'**" '

' " '.Twb&undred thousand fraflc ?, 'f, F " I wiU draw you-a check at once.'|| " ' Sir,' exclaimed the lady, Jjpujhiave not made an appeal f to a,callous nearti "I will make 5 the Lsacrifice': I-will giro up '. Henri.; You said,; I/think, twp hundred t ,thousand." .^.1..,., ~~ t ~ "'I did. "Blessing on you, my child!' "exclaimed the Count, -fenrentlyr-^Write tbe letter, I .shall dictate, and the check shalt-be-youtsM '-^ ~ - CO^. • - " So down Diana sat and penned the following epistle": . : . [I' I)ear, Henri, I love .you no more. ' In fact I never have loved you;'-1 loTe~ another. Farewell for ever. "'■- 1 ' ~ Diane.' .;, " ; The Count <to»k the. letter, inspected it carefully, and placed it carefully in nil pocket-book,,»from which he then drew a check-for the amount named, which he placed in theilady's eager, hands... „, •: " Allow me, my child to raise to my lips the gentle hand ; that has: just saTed son!"

"A; kiss and a tear fell; on.the dainty hand together; it was then released, and " the aged nobleman departed. He-had not been long gone when Mile Diane discovered that;:her' diamond i-iring,1 'which was valued 10,000 francs, had disappeared from her finger, and further investigation proved that her silver f ware and other articles of value had*also vanished' c'The pretended Count was~ no "offieVlEan" a swindler ibf-the" very; worst type." The worse of the affair was that the scamp actually mailed the letter of-Mile,'Ptane to the viscount, so thafc^the lady found herself'minus an adorer as well as' her valuables." :' ' .• ' ' ■ ' i '