But introduce me. I have a great fancy what the lovers considered to be an invios to behold ma petite epouse. If after see-lable secret was startling; but his kinding me, she remembers this secretary of ness came like an icy pang upon his heart. yours, her taste must indeed be barbarous "I break his heart!" he said. "No beyond what my general good opinion et no--my own first; and God knows that the ladies would incline me to believe." speech has already broken it. O, JacqueThe General had succceded as far as line! (why do I dare to call her by such a one of the parties was concerned. Val-name)-Mademoiseile de Valencay, I reriviere was introduced, and talked gaily sign you for ever. Accursed be these difon all the affairs of Paris. All the wit, ferences of rank-these. blighting distincand all the scandal of the saloons were tions, which wither the only fair flowers pared forth-the beauties, the wits, the that decorate the wilderness of life." po, the philosophers, the cooks, the His resolution was taken: he would see chemists, the politicians (they were begin her once more-and see her in private. ning to have politicians in 1785), the act- Through the medium of her nurse, who ors, the signers, the painters, the tailors, was privy to all their little arrangements, the marchandes des modes, every body, he invited her to meet him in the garden, in fact, was discussed, valued, and dis- by the fountain which had first witnessed missed by him during dinner. Poor Lou- their loves. It was a secluded, old-fash is was ecrase, and Jacqueline was at least ioned garden, surrounded by immense dazzled. They well knew that she was walls, and quite out of sight of any part of destined to be Valriviere's wife, and the the house. In the evening the family selhumble lover was distracted--the extent dom entered it, and Louis thought it the of his misfortune for the first time stared most private spot he could select. With him in the face. As soon as he could some difficulty, Jacqueline consentedleave the room, he fled into the neighbour- decorum pleaded hard, but love still harding forest to vent his sorrows. The eve-er. ning was bright and balmy, but its balmi- They met in silence, and the tears of ness brought no consolation to poor Louis; Louis flowed as copiously as those of his who, having exhausted his thoughts of beloved. At last, he took her unresisting grief, rage, bitterness, and despair, in all band into the chilly pressure of his own? the eloquence and vehemence of passion, "Jacqueline," he said, "I must call you sunk in a stupor on the ground. by that name for this one occasion. My From this state the sound of well known presumption has been punished as it ought voices aroused him. The General and to be. It raised me to a pinnacle of unexValriviere had walked out to enjoy the pected happiness, thence to be hurled into fineness of the evening. The Marquis the depths of despair. We part-part was praising the grace and beauty of his this hour-and part for ever !” intended spouse, and observed that a win- Jacqueline wept, but no word escaped ter in Paris would render her vraiment from her quivering lips. He proceeded! distinguee. He jested on the pretensions "That I love you with an intensity of of his rustic rival, who, however, he ad-passion, I need not affirm. I fear that it is mitted to be a good-looking fellow. returned." lle is," said the General, with a sigh; "Fear it, Louis!" said she, "if it be an and he is also a good-hearted fellow. object of fear, be prepared to tremble:" I hope he will forget his boyish passion. she forced a languid smile, but her voice His own good sense will point out to him was solemn with emotion, when she add the folly of indulging it; and I am sure his ed, "I love you better than my life." amiable disposition will make him recoil "The more cruel then is my punish from doing what would break the heart ment," he replied; "what an unhapp lot of one who has always endeavoured to he is mine, to bring misery upon those for his friend, and who, even now, regards whom I am ready to die." him with the affection of a father." In broken and agitated sentences, he They passed on, and Louis heard ho told her his determination to leave the more of their conversation: he had heard country--he repeated what he had over enough. The fact that the General knew heard-requested her to forget her mis 1 placed affection for her lowly admirer-which in your cooler moments you would and "oh! that such advice should flow lament. The memory of the great bene from my lips," he concluded, "give your fits you have heaped upon me, the recol hand, and if you can your heart, to the lection of the dreams of happiness which I object of your father's choice." enjoyed in your chateau, make me regret The pale girl scarcely answered him a that we part as we do. Adieu! may God word; she hung her head upon her lover's forgive you for the sin which you are ashoulder, and his bosom was wet with her bout to commit, and shower down blesstears. Her filial duty contended against ings upon her, who suffers for the gratifi -her unfortunate passion; but if he had cation of your pride. As for me, you will pressed, who can say that it would have at last do me justice." required much solicitation to have made So saying, he passed hastily out of the her the partner of his fortunes? A sound garden, and directed his footsteps towards of heavy footsteps alarmed them, and they the town. The General hemmed and bade one another a melancholy farewell. stamped, and whistled; but in a moment Their lips met for the first time,-and began to feel that he was not altogether in Jacqueline, scarcely knowing what she the right. the garden. did, vanished through one of the alleys of "I am sorry we part so," said the General. "He was ever a fine manly fellowThe steps by which they had been dis- and a plebeian is as much flesh and blood turbed, were those of Jacqueline's father, as the Grand Monarque. The fault was who, on his return to the house, discover- mine, in allowing them to be so much toed that his daughter and Louis were both gether. I must see Jacqueline, poor ro absent, and went somewhat displeased in mantic girl! but all girls are silly at her quest of them. He encountered Louis, age. She will live to thank me, for saand demanded, rather angrily, what he ving her from disgrace." was doing there at so late an hour. The The displeasure he felt with himself for young man, who did not wish to compro- his violence, had, as usual, produced a re mise Jacqueline, offered some trivial, and action, and he sought his daughter with not very plausible excuse, which irritated his feelings considerably subdued. He the General. made no allusion whatever to her inter"It is false, Sir," said he. view with Louis, and when she put off his "I cannot permit any man, Sir, to use proposed discussion of the propriety of her such language to me," was the reply of marriage with Valriviere, by saying first, Louis. with a melancholy eagerness, "not to "You must permit it when you utter a night, father-oh! not to-night?" and then falsehood. Tell me then, Sir, truly, if you attempting to correct her energy, by stam can, was Mademoiselle de Valencay in mering out a blushing excuse of accidenthe garden with you? tal head-ache, he took no notice, but smil "Since I am so pointedly questioned, I ed, and withdrew from her apartment. -must answer you, that she was." We need not linger over our story. "I see I have taken a viper into my Her father argued with her calmly and house. Louis, I once had a good opinion affectionately. He pointed out the utter "of you; but " disgrace of an inferior union-he talked If you knew my case," said the young kindly but coolly of youthful affection'man, "you would still-" assured her that his marriage with her What, Sir, do you bandy words with own mother was an arrangement, and he me? Fine times we have come to. A need not tell her how happy that union raturier here wants to ensnare the affec- had been; pointed out the rank, birth, and tions ofmy daughter, and dares to insult accomplishments of the, Marquis; and myse f. Take that, coquin," and he made wound up his appeal by the most irresisti a blow at Louis, who however arrested his ble of all his arguments, by appealing to uplifted arm. her love and duty to himself. She waver "General, de Valencay," said Louis, ed, and submitted; but declared that when you were not used to behave to me thus. the Marquis made his formal proposals, I will not allow you to inflict an insult, he should hear from her the whole truth In due time; the exact, well calculated, [elder ladies, admitting that the Marquis well regulated time, the Marquis did make was handsome, rich, and noble, whispered his proposals; and he made them in the that he was the most depraved rue of prettiest of all pretty ways, saying the Paris, and one to whom they would never prettiest of all pretty things-things that have thought of giving a daughter of would have won half the owners of the theirs. The festival lasted a fortnight; most brilliant eyes in Paris. They were after which the Marquis whirled away his coldly heard by Jacqueline, who content- handsome wife to the metropolis, where ed herself by replying, that she felt hon- he speedily immersed himself, and dragoured by the attentions of the observed of ged her as much as possible along with all observers-that family reasons ren- him, in all the gaieties and dissipations of dered him a suitor not to be refused: the luxurious society of his devoted order, "but, Sir," she added, in a serious tone, just then, unconsciously, hovering on the "I should be uncandid if I did not tell brink of destruction. you, that I give you my hand only-I cannot give you my heart. If with this you be contented, I am yours." And where was Louis Regnault in the meantime? A "Fair hand," said he, "taking it, "I After having parted from the General kiss your taper fingers. The heart-if in the garden, he went into the town of there be a heart-will follow. But, dear Perpignan, and quite regardless of the dibride elect, don't talk such nonsense, or where some soldiers happened to be carection of his footsteps, entered a cabaret, you will make us the laughing-stocks of all Paris. This, thank heaven, is the eigh-rousing. The leader of the party observteenth, and not the thirteenth sentury; and ing Regnault's thoughtful and absent air, we have given over talking of these little took the military liberty of joking him upabsurdities. Come, that's a good girl, on it. don't spoil those divine eyes by useless "I venture to say," said the serjeant, tears. Let me read you a letter I have" there is some girl of the village at the just received from Genlis, in which she bottom of your black looks. Never mind gives me all the gossip of Paris-plenty of her, if you take my advice. Pish! a tall scandal of every body no doubt-but that fellow, and pine after a black eye, when is only fair, for every body speaks scandal there are the lilies of France waving in the neighbourhood. Join us, man; join The marriage was celebrated in the us, and I warrant you will have many a chateau with all feudal pomp. The old score of black eyes at your service, in lieu families of the country attended, looking of the pair that are now causing you to solemn and important, as provincial no- look like a winter midnight." bles generally do, and accordingly they Louis was at first inclined to be angry much diverted the Marquis, who vowed, with this soldier-like ribaldry; but on a that on his return to Paris, he would write sudden, the thought of enlisting seriously a farce, to be called Le Marriage du Cha- entered his mind. It would take him at teau, ou Le Parisien entre les Ours. He once away from scenes now grown painwas gay, polite, attentive to his wife; she, ful-it would at once remove him from all calm and quiet, and resigned to him chance of encountering any of his old Her corbeille and trousse were of the most friends. of her." magnificent description; in fact, he had "I am not one of their accursed nodone every thing that expense could com- blesse," said he, " and have therefore no mand, or gallantry dictate. A splended chance of rising farther than some paltry ball of course concluded the evening, and rank; but then I am cut off from all posthe Marquis gaily dancing with his lovely sibility of seeing Jacqueline. If I went to bride, cast a glow of grace and hilarity Paris, as I once thought, and attempted to over the room. procure a precarious livelihood by my The young demoiselles of Navarre pen, I might perhaps have to endure the could only console themselves by observ-patronage of the Marquis-aye, of the ing, that Jacqueline looked certainly rath- Marchioness of Valriviere. It is better to er pretty, but very melancholy; while the be a private soldier: and then if there be a war, I shall have an opportunity of being shot." PRINCE DE JOINVILLE, third son of Louis Phillippe, has honored our city with Influenced by these considerations, he a visit of a few days, and is now perform. joined the party, and was speedily enroll ing a tour through our flourishing towns ed as a private soldier. in the west. We would reccommend to The regiment to which he was attach- Dr. Williams, Oculist, to follow the foot ed, was, to his great delight, to march steps of this newly imported lion, as un northward in two days, during which he doubtedly the optics of many will require kept himself completely housed. On the his services, after the great exertion of night before his departure, he stole to the beholding a live Prince. chateau, where he found the nurse, to whom he gave a letter, charging her to deliver it to her mistress in the morning It was short, and ran thus: (Concluded in our next.) The soul. What is the soul? It may not be COMWELL AND MAZARINE Cardinal Mazarine having refused to deliver up Dunkirk, according to the arti cles agreed upon at the commencement of the war between France and Spain, in which war Olive engaged as an auxiliary on the above condition, the protector wrote the following laconic and spirited A light which Chince hath waked to birth letter to the cardinal: Nor is that power Necessity, The mother of the earth; Philosophy in vain may teach That nature formed this glorious whole; In worlds which science cannot reach, "God-God made man a living soul!" What is the soul?a deathless ray; And bowed the starry globe of night From stern necesity call grace Call order from the dreams of chance Bid your material god replace The heavenly fountains we advance: The seasons would return no more, The erring plannets lose their track; Confusion stalk from shore to shore, And ruin shout to chaos back! Can knowledge then oppress the brain, And blind our intellectual sight? Not knowledge hath debased the sense, Let me live on, and still deceive "Thou traitor, Mazarine, if thou refus est to deliver Dunkirk into the hands of Lockhart, my friend and counsellor, whom I have sent with full authority to receive it, by the eternal G-d I will come and tear thee from thy master's bosom, and hang thee in the gates of Paris. O. CROMWELL." Upon the receipt of this polite note, the keys of the prison were immediately de livered. TERMS. The PHILADELPHIA VISITER AND PAR LOUR COMPANION, is published every other Saturday, on fine white paper, each number will con tain 24 large super-royal octavo pages, enveloped in fine printed cover, forming at the end of the year a volume of nearly 600 pages, at the very low price of $1 25 cts. per annum in advance. $200 will be charged at the end of the year. Post Masters, and others, who will procure four subscribers, and enclose Five Dollars to the propri etor, W. B. ROGERS, 49 Chesnut street, Philadel phia, shall receive the 5th copy gratis A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. fields of Austerlitz, Jena, Friedland, and (Concluded.) "Your father is cruel-cruel to you as to me. False opinions, dictated by pride, lead him to tear asunder hearts made for one another. May the blessing of Heav en light on the head of thee, my true love, torn from me by parental cruelty; and may your father never have cause to repent of his unkindness to the jewel of his heart." Wagrans. ith his serW vices his honours increased, and in 1811 he was aid-de-camp to the Emperor, member of the Legion of Honour, a Lieutenant-General, and the Comte de Regnault. His wealth was great, and his standing in Parisian society permanent. No more the retired student of Perpignan, he was now a diplomatist and a General. He had married in 1794, the daughter of a revolutionary General, which had contributed not a little to his advancement. How this was read, and wept over, and She died not long after their marriage, kissed, and treasured it is useless to say. and left him an only daughter. The On that day, Jacqueline did not leave her young lady, reared amid the bustle and chamber, She would not meet the jest-excitement of agitated times, was gay, ing gallantry of the Marquis. brusque, lively, and of course a great faThis was in 1785! In less than four vourite. Her father used to fancy a likeyears, Louis's good condict had acquired ness between her and Mademoiselle de him a serjeantcy, the highest step that a Valencay, at the same age; but he would roturier could expect under the old say to himself, my poor Jacqueline was regime; but in 1789 the days of that re- quiet and resigned-Pauline is gay and gime were numbered. In a couple of noisy. And in spite of the sternness of years more, the privileges of the nobles mind which scenes of battle and debate were gone; in four years the king had laid had produced, he would sometimes wish, his head in the basket of the guillotine. in a moment of romance, that he knew The first revolutionary campaign found where poor Jacqueline's remains were Louis a lieutenant. It may be easily con- laid. "I think," he would whisper to himjectured that he did not take the aristo- self, "I should be fool enough to visit ciatica side. He joined the army of Du- them." mouric, and fought at Genappe. At- Alas! he did not know how near an aptached to the armies of Hoche and proximation to the scenes of his youth in Pichegru, he assisted in the victories of the Chateau de Valencay then existed in the armies of the Republic. In 1798 he his splendid hotel in the Rue Rivoli. Gay was with the army of Italy, and distin- and etourdie as Pauline was, there were guished himself under the command of moments when she was serious enough, him, whose fame was not yet tarnished by And what was it that made her serious? tyranny or oppression. Afterwards, he Her father had been determined that adhered to the Emperor, and saw the she should be accomplished in the highest |