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| AT GLASGOW HOUSE | §7 OU will find CHEAP, FOR CASH— Ladies’ Polka JACKETS Ladies’ MANTLES in all styles Ladies’ Chenille Neck Scaris French Fiowers and Plumes Children's Felt LATS, with Feathers to match Stamped Work, a few handsome French Finbroideries Muslim Collars and Sleeves oe eee : rr Reeenentaetmencerte Head Dresses, Dress Caps CHE BUCTO WAREHOUSE. ’ Ladies’ Dress Goods in great variety fIB subscriber has, in connection with his business in) Pomenian, Mountain, Martin & Musquash BOAS & T Halifax, opened a WHOLESALE WAREHOUSE and | CUPPS, GENERAL COMMISSION AGENCY, Head of Queen's Wharf, and next door to J. & T. Morris. | Advances made on cousignments. Preduce, Fish, &e., for-

Voi. VILL. Salt, Flour, Corn-meal & Groceries, 500 | su ELS Liverpool SAL uf 2 100 Barrels CORN-MEAL | 100 Bags do. low for cash only, at and for sale OTLLS PROVISLON STORE, Market-square. |

SS 0 Barrels extra Canada FLOUR And a choice assortment of Family GROCERPBS, jus reseived | Charletéetown, June 14, 1858. 6m

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BOOTS and SHOES, &c. &e. C. C. VAUX, Queen-street.

warded. Insurance effected, &e. December 13, 1858. lin . ss : al 1 eee « emerenmnenettiones ee -- oe ae te ne ene st received per ‘‘ Ocean Bride | =. on : ' aa barrel sled Southern FLOUR | BATTING! BATTING! \ arreis mo , | > KEERVE] ‘ Ta. > TOM 9 a MORIVED at ** GLASGOW HOUSE,” per Afton, from j i ’ ’ 10¢ do A inada do x ee 50 0 do fresh-ground CORNM&AL, ; 0) apatites 50 boxes R \ISINS puperior BATTING, . 7 a ee a ' wT Black and White WADDING, 20 do Pipes, 10 chesta TEA,. a. sm , pet :

Rr lone RRANDY. 10 “a eek White and Unbleached Cotten, Flaansls.

250 gallons BRANDY, 30 boxes Havana Cigara, enseies £8 a at SR ees joxes Cavendish TOBACCO, _ SR Ps ic Rg .. VAR Anhgueeeiest, lihds Porto Rico SUGAR, NEW AND IMPROVED NOVA SCOTIA Puncheons MOLASSES, Tierces Treaslo, - a oon © ae

10 piec 3 SATINETYE (consignment), COOKING AND OTHER STOVES. Patent and common Windlass Gear, } US ARKIVED, an assortment of New and Improved’ 50 herrels prime Labrador HERRINGS, ®F sirong and substantial COOKING and other STOVES, dv Pilot BREAD. warranted Nova Seotia eastings—-and not Yankee—with large Fur sale cheap by P. W. L¥NDMAN Metal Boilers, to suit Farmers, and made to save wood and (Charlottetown, N ny. 22, 1858. time, so valuable at all seasons. Will be suld «wi the mantu- : ae ) ne ethane —— | facturer’s prices this season, im order to establish the quality “ ac. and advantages of these Valuable Stoves—thesea being among S we W qa rea ‘ C a > Chebucto arehouse, tthe first imnortati n to this Island. Can now be seen in s — . . ‘ , dn Wie ie tt’ 1 i ; ae : . ae a 7 iz of received at the above oy AFCHOUR aperation at the Store of the Agent for this Island, at Orwell. & Pancheor . Orwell, December 13. PATRICK STEPHENS. Alao, Hourly exp onic Liana feel 100 Sia SR UDPORS YPYRIDONSs 15 Che 5 ang Jy tikka ‘| E .. Ful PURS ‘Be -# 3 a 10 Boxes euperior Cavendish TUBACCO, ™y OW is your timo to suit yourselves with the very latest Barrels BURNING FLUID, + styles and most fashionable ms ONIONS, “A ¥T PD nym Tt ss DRIED APPLES, FURNITURE, 6 TREACLE from the greatest variety aud best quality that hae ever heen 6 Puncheons MOLASSES, ‘exhibited in Charlottctown, of WALNUT, MAHOGANY and} 2) Boxes CANDLES, 2 : PAINTED FURNITERE, censisting of much more than 2 ANDLES, :, : ; 30 « SOAP. ¢ Consignments. | herein enumerated — P. W. HYNDMAN. Tete-a-tetes Chanzrber Sats Drawirg-room Tables | y ' 5 Sofas Cottige Bodsteads Parlor do Nouv. 20, 18 Ts] & Pro. Hoag ; oe : ps tae aay rt ; ae od okie bee French dy Penibrook do a geweue ~ : Bov’s Bedstead Sida dy Kr TY et VE or? | Lollings Boy's Bedsteads Side NE V DISCOVEE x! Lounges ribs in iron Card ds Revolution in the Huatiag World! Hunters, Trappers, | Ottomans Cradles : ot “ i |} Arm-Chairs Clothes Driers olle do ‘ y) . “4 ees Backwoodsmen and Farmers, arouse to your [aterests! |p. Chairs Towel Sturte rates Work. do Vigilanes superseded and danger avoided by Sewing “do a nee weeded (Cornices ; NYY : : ies Rocking de Bureaus Wincow Ban's REUTHE’S PATENT Nurse do Sinks Patent window Rollers ,, i nt di Wardrobes Cord and Tassels % tecumbent du ‘on SPRING GUN ANIMAL TRAP, —~ Recumbent eter ° eal ° . 7 ¥>, { y : ots Se res ‘S$ SUPERIOR to all other kinds for trapping BEARS, Parlor = - h - _ Sottees WOLVES, FOXES, MINKS, DOGS and CATS. It is Carpet-seat a et a ait heemenious #o constructed that nothing can eseape that takes hold of the Reception do om ~~ ees

Cane-back arm do Mattrasaecs Repainted & Cane-back Rocker doLooking Glasses Cane-back Nursedo Looking glass Plites Ladies’ Dining do Picture Frames

| Office do Gilt Moulding

bait, whether lurge gr,emll, and it secuves the animal without injury to the fur or poh.

Can be had cheap at the Orwell.

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CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1858.

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SONGS WITHOUT WORDS. BY CHARLES MACKAY. Songs without words !—through forest leayes they quiver, With softer cadence tune the torrent’s roar ; They mingle whispers with the rippling river, And sport in billows on the stormy shore.

Songs without words !~how often have I sung them fu the fresh noon-time of my life’s young day, . , When hopes were free as if kind Heaven had flung them Plentegus as daisies in the lap of May.

Songs without words !—how often lonely musing, Fanned by the breath of morn, or evening skies,

Have joy and sorrow mutely interfusing :, Throbbed in my veins and sparkled in my eyes. *

Songs witho t words !—how oft in love’s pure gladnoss, ifer hand in mine, we've looked sweet songs unsung, Of deeper joy and more entrancing sadness Than eer found accents on a mortal tongue,

THE KILLING PRINCESS.

( Concluded.) The news he brought was true, however, Gaston found old heuse in a general commotion of gladness and grandeur; the princess had astonished the whole street by coming there in her ealash; a bag of roubles had been left fur Sophia's ontfit; the young girl's frieuds had assembied to advise her what she should buys the mujik had got very drunk on the occasion; and the state-counciilor was so elated that he decidedly refused the considerable present which Gaston offered in return for his entertainments, ‘* No,” said the old man; © you have not got much to spare yet, and my ' daughter is going to be provided for, taken to court, and made au heiress, perhaps. The saints guard my Sophia! I (would not part with her, alter what has happened to a0 many . girls of our family; but there is nothing before the poor child convent of the dfasting Sisters, and that isa poor look out for one’s only daughter.” His last words tallied so strangely with Clozoff’s groan, and the secretary's eymiea! look, that Gaston felt there was some Russian meaning in them; but no endeavour could bring the state-councillor to

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Upholstery | out. All kinds Parniture | got his cue, and would talk of nothing but the great good

Orders promptly ai-

tone, enlarged on the excellencies of the priueess, her liber- ality to her relations, and the certainty Sophia had of getting ihandeomely portioned and well marricd. i! she only pleased ther highnees, The buying went on. Friends and relations had wot visited the house for years crowded to rejoice

There was good cheer, and even the mujik sad it never had been buch aseagth while to serve there before. Sophia was lsorry té Teave fer Father, ond glad to. be made a lady; ‘be- isides, it was her belief she wou'd see Gaston sometimes at

i who with futher and daughter, | feasting in the old Louse ;

Cane-chairs reseated COaTt; but the Hrenchman’s heart misgete him ; there was:

dark background to her promotion, which beeould not make ts 1,

Pumping Clozofi was of no avails the ex-merchant had

‘luck of ‘Sophia Petrova, aad kew well she deserved: is. know

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Ee” The highest price paid for-RURS. 9 cee walt | 8 but o1 cousins , i Look out for the TRAPS in time. ile inal : Tahlon foivetery, and Deng interested as welt AS curious, that way he Orwell, December 15. PATRICK STEPHENS. (~™ ne or case call and examine. . deterpuned to take, though it cost fis cutire exchequer. All cial Seale mail stiecinshenaienelipstategaintesliiamasiaitimnienest —-———— ---- - GEORGE DOUGLAS. i the money he cou'd conimand by this time amounted te four ‘ EAL Dunies MARMALADE | Kert-straet, Deeamber 123, 1858 Sins ‘hundred roubles. Armed with this sum, he sought a common R Gua.a Jelly, Fruit presorved im Syrup ova fk ne ee oma. 6g bea-shop, which Clozoff was accustomed to frequent when he Preah Turkey UGS. | Silour, Motassos, wea ther, Tobacco, &c. ‘had nothing better to do, because it was kept by his own sons : . mess » wo | BUST received por Brigantine Ayton, and for sale aé tho injaw, and bad very little custom, The old man could for- Do. CURRANTS, 9d. per Ib. Ly sere See ee ak aed | tunately speak 1 vench, and was very proud of that aceom- Do. Yamarinds, Prime Anvapolls CHEESE 500 Barre's Extra a LOUR | pisiment, as nove of his neighbours iu the Moscow quarter TRE..CLE, sold in any small quantity 109 ee do ‘understood if. It gave Gaston an opportunity of dealing A large lot CONFECTIONARY 150 Sides SULE LEATHER with hia: privately, where he found him alone in the back-

‘ Mia he Sedan REEEEE GTS oo td ockcd All kinds of Essences for Flavouring 15 Casks Cider VINUGAR, a good artiole

30 Boxes TOBACCO

: Ye tae > sa} Candied Lemon, Urange and Citron Peels . eat anes acd hears . Si ais 3; well asallb the etcetras suiiavie 15 Puncheons MOLASSES nas Spices, a3 well “wd wis LAC wole } ; sali “ . q . iy 50 Barrels No. ] Pilot Bread 5 cases Matches ry -.i@ SCUAO]. ae a: a . ‘ TY 7 ia 50 Coila Maniflea ROPE

BURNING FLUID.

For sale af |

taeqrre ; we : ~a08 : ame ; Rosin, Tar, Pitch, a eee &e. fll fag All kinds of OLLS for burning and macuinery. Im SAMUEL A. FOWLE & Co.

the Cash Dru Store of tl Sais

SKINNER. Gueen-sirect. y Gus “Poy 8 BR "2 a . : 512 AE. SELENE, Qussmetzcs i i Wy fe QO Be §*s { ithe Indies of her family, December 2°, 1858. ed i one 7 ae: re | Clozof was a Russian, and going to be paid for his tale; eeribiesiicaadniniiiatais eee ere ————$ nena ana a . Ga? - a i IIMA iZmcen’s SCdUAar a ' 3 ‘ ’ 7 ritish Wareneusse (ucen'’s square. |he therefore made no prologue, but that he was a poor man, Carpetting & Rugs. Sills ie | hoineundindthe pre~| ani? cnetd bn dined 47 1h erae anees te tien aoe Pp “oO - | FESLE subscriber, having re-commencea buiness im the pre-and wou'd be ruined if it ever came to the prineess’s know-

{YOR SALE at cost and charges at the Subseriber’s Room,! H jnises formerly occapied by Mr. ueen’a Square—

A ae ass antes of Carpetting im WOOL and HEMP. : re , —Atso— liieaal | Liverpool, his FALL SUPPLY ot

A quantity of Handsome HEARTH RUGS, BRITISH DRY GOODS,

> in want will find it to their advantage to calland| _ an a WILLEAM DODD, Auctioneer. (suited to the scason.

Charlottetown, December 20. | ial Tiina | STOVES! STOVES!! cml toes NHE Subscriber has just received per Schr ‘*‘ Mary,’ from) 10 Bags RICE, maemeath Nowe Reote—- pa) is Porto Rico and Crashed SUGAR, Farmers’ Cooking STOVES of tho best quality, (with Cast | Carranis, Raéicina, Pivkles: Iron Boilers) and Box STOVES, a better article than ever | And superior Salad Oi!, was imported into this market. ' which will be sold at the lowest prices for Cash. Parties ae to purchase Stoves had better call and see sy P WILLIAM BROWN. before they purchase elsewhere, as they cannot fail to give

—aLso— 72 Chests TEA,

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les eee ta tae 7 ; JARDINE McLnan, takes ledge that he had teld any report about her highness | the earliest opportunity to inform his friends an = public which Gaston assured him of his abzolute igenerally, that he has just received per ship ésade/, from

Charlottetown, October

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OF QUEEN-SQUARE. Fall, 1658.

satisfaction. HEYMAN J. P. TERLI7ZICK.

December 13, 1858. lm

BAZAAR. | WNORTHS

Christmas and New Year’s Presents. | J HE greatest variety of FANCY GOODS in the Eastern

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Provinces is to be found at the ‘* BAZAAR,’ Great sing, Saga Tea in variety Blacking

Georgo street, consisting in part of— Pans b’t Molasses Superior Cofive Tobacco Jamaict Rum Biscuit in variety Cigars

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Broaches ; Rings ; Earrings ; Pencil Cases, &c.; silver Scissors ; in variet ig ; x. ‘ ‘ ‘ ee Non 3 aves HO) *s } ah ) n

Stilettoes ; Butter Knives; silver-top’d Bottles; Clocks : | strong Spirits Annapolis Cheese Digby Herrings

6: Backgammon Boards; Chessmen; Flutineas ; {ihds Holiand Gin Raisins Rice ; felteos Concertineas : Violins ; Desks ; Work Boxes ; best Cognac Brandy Currants eon Dressing-cases, Reticulos; Comier Bags; Pen-knives in ‘coteh Whiskey Dye-stulls arts hs shell, ivory, pearl, &e:; Vases; Pocket Pisto's in great P.ELF. Malt do ee , vee) a: variety ; Revolvers; Guns; Whips; Tortoise-shell, Braid Common Whiskey Earthen Jars . i and side Combs; Watch Glasses: Nickel, silver Tea, Symond s best Port Pickles ar Table, Dessert and salt Spoons; silver-plated Spoons; | Wine i pea i EPSP. sewing Birds; shot Bags and Pouches ; Meerschaum and, Sherry Wine i e Sa oe other Pipes; Plate Looking Glasses ; cloth, hair, tooth) Madeira do yo lita Sakti ph

and shaving Brushes ; Engravings ; Fenders: stair Rods ; Champagne Tumblers ; Wineglasses and other Glassware ; Perfumery ;| Edinburgh Ale ert Hair Oil ; palm, honey, sun-flower, amber, glycerine and | aa Barnies ui other Fancy Soaps; Toys in endless variety, &c. &e. ondon Porter — rushes “sie te ; A tome parent Plated and common Jewellery, well And a great variety of other small and us ful te ~ ntt adapted for Country and Retail Dealers. ‘merous to mention. Cash paid for good aes i “ oo ; tg Discount to the Trade .. ‘ ADEA, November 29. Im JAMES McCOMB. J

Confectionary Patent Medicines

November 29, 1858,

‘room of the tea-shop, sitting as close as he could to the stove. * Clozoff, you are a prudent man, and I want you to tell

salutations were fairly over. “ Tiere are four hundred } ’ _* : Ss 2 iroubles, which shall be yours on the spot, if you will tell me

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| egree, one after another, to bring out and provide for.

{money could buy, or girls could wish for, but none of thew | ever lived a year after eatering the palace. Seven-and-twenty | girls of the Grodizoff line lie in the vaults of our Lady Kazan. I must say she gave them handsome funerals; and her high- |ness’s family bave searcely a danghier left, though it was Saas the wonder where husbands would be found for them lall. Count Vezkin, her nephew, has not one gir! out of five. } Alexis Paulova, her cousin’s widow, sits alone in the house | where she had three daughters to marry; and they say her

old aunt at Smolenski has lost her wits long ago with think-| who went to the Grodizulf patace, one afver |

ing of seven girls iw 4 ’ } : . } } ‘another, to be made heiresses, and followed in the same order

tO ~ 66 Urrmae 9? Caney - yn i : é a. # UST RECEIVED per ** Vicrorta’’ from Hanirax, and to the vaults of our Lady of Kazaa.”

‘© Did so mang deaths attract no atientivn? Was there no inquiry ?” said Gaston.

© yes, there was every inquiry that could be made about ja house of such high rank,” said Ulozoff. “ Some of them died of strange diseases, which no physiciaa kaew. Some of them met with still stranger accidents. There was one, I remember, who fell down stairs in the dark; another went

iWal lto the German spas, aud the water disagreed with her. In

say that the old aunt’s youngest daughter, who died very

tell you; and I would not say as much fora thousand roules, only to yoursell’; it is putting my life in jeopardy ”--and Clozof elutched the bag of eilrer with wiany additional

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sumetbing,” said Gaston, producing the silver, when their

t ‘plainly why you said ‘ Voor Sophia’ ia.the cfice three days ego, and what is the story about the Drlacess Grodigoff and{”-

; on safety, and chinked

Well,” said Clozoff, “ since you uiust be told, it is known to all St. Petersburgh that for the last twenty years the rincess has taken nieces, grand-nieces, and cousins of every She

ressel them in the height of the fashion; she took them to al! places of entertainment; she gave them everythins that

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No. 25. " Swe | groans over the risk*lie wasZrunning, and an intimation that (his son-in-law knew there was meney going, and would ‘expect half of it. Had Gaston been posseseed of a larger ‘bag, he eould have distributed its contents in ferreting out {further details“ef her highness's domestic history. Ae it | was, he determined that Sophia should not go to the palaeo ‘without him. [er father was now restored to favour; and the worthy state-councillor looked rather astonished next day when his prosperous guest, fresh from a court employment, presented himself with a very long face—a penitent declara- tion that he had lost zi! his money at the gaming-table, and an earnest request that he would get him the humblest post |in the princess's service. There was a liberal bes:owment of sound rebuke and sage admonition. The councillor smoked two full pipesjin its delivery, though he admitted there was some apology for Gaston, considereng that he was neither a Russian nor brought up in the Greck Church. As to @ post

{in the princess's household, there was none vacant just then,

but that ef second-valet, which could not be thought of fur a man of his quality ; but Gaston was welcome to stay in his house till something turned up: he would. be lonely now without Sophia, and wanted somebody to help in the reforma- tion of the mujik, which heintended to begin without delay. Gaston made all suitable acknowledgments for his hospitable offer, hinted his own unfitness to assist in the revis’on of the mujik’s morals, and added in a penitential tone, that he con- sidered the post of second valet quite sufficient for his deserts ; |but as there were probabilisies of preferment. to come, he _requeste. .be councillor to see that mademoisclie, his daughter, did not recognize him in the Grodigoff palace. The oid man was much edified by the present humility and future prospeets of his young friend. Tlie second yalet’s place was speedily ‘obtained, Sophia was duly warned to know nothing of the new servant; and under the name of Jacques je Noir, Gaston entered on his humble duties.

The office of second-valet was not s sinecure in the household of her exceileney. Like most of the great ladies of that age, half the duties of her toilet, and all her con- fidential errands, were done by the gentlemen.of the chamber, which courtly term imcluded the above-mentioned Jacques and his cotumander, an Italian, named Paulo, who had been first-valet ever since the princess became a widow.. Paulo did nothing but eat spiced macaroni and prepare it . for himself in a private kitchen, which he had constructed behind his suit of apartments. He alsovkept the keys of her highness’s shoe-reom, and all the other rooms in which the treasure: of her wardrobe were laid up, and a very strict eye over the seeond-yalet, who was expected never to go out but when sent on am ecrrand—then to make no delay in returning; to attend the bells of the princess, her three ladies-in-waiting, her two hair-dressers, ber secrotary, and. chief of all, Paulo, who liberally sealded him when there was an opportunity. OF these ritea and duties the soi-disant Jacques had a full allowance. Theeight’bell@rang* him up at ath hours. Pho ringers seat hint to every confer of S:, Petersburg in all weathers, and no city in Europe enjoys such & variety of the undoubtedly bad. He ate with the serfs, he siept above the horses. The housekeeper bad to get prevents for uot fiuding fault with him; the laundvess tore

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jhie shirts; Paalo callel lim names in Halianw, French, and !

Rremaguetingee

| Rass; and the entire housebold laughed at him for having | white hauds, and expecting washed dishes. [twas nota con- | gemiul life forza youuy manjfond of elegance,“aud anxious to | be somebody ;_but Gaston kep! his post for almosi six months, with a self-devotion aad eudurance of a Jesuit missionary > ‘yet not the smallest thread of the Gredizoff secret could he | unravel. If Paulo had any good graces to be gaiued, they j were beyond the reach of bis Gallie, subordinate, All the French servants were new, and could tell nothing. Tho secretary, though gracious to 3 countryman, had been long in Russia, and spoke little except in praise of his employer. All the maids were Russian fiom the princess’. estates, aod all Gaston’s efforts failed to make an impression on anyof their hearts. The errands” they sent him were of the most commonplace and overt description; indeed, there was nothing strange about the palace bat that inexplicable’ tate. Like other great Russian houses of the period, its ‘chief apartments were all magnificence, its inferior ones given up to dirt and squalor. ‘There was a constant succession of

oceastonal "view of the princess, conspicuous by the magnitude of her hoop, her diamonds, and her immovable face of the north, Sometimes, too, he caught sight of Sophia, richly dressed, attended hy waiting-women and pages, keeping well in mind the charge against reeognition, yet pow and then looking as if she had not forgotten him too.

[i was marvellous that the poor girl’a,head’was'not turve’d by her sudden transition froin the old house with all the work to do, the mujik to kecp in order, and the state-council- lor in‘good temper ; but Sophia kept her balance, and seemed to make her footing sure. At the end of tbe first monih, the princess was boasting of the accomplishments her young protegee had acquired from the half-seore of masters an} m'stresses retained for that purpose. Before a second had expired, all her highness’s circle voted Sophia brillant; and with a Frenchman’s perception of such matters, the sc-ond« valet at length discovered thar Beolor Baselov'e, one of the Ocloff family, was about to offzr his hand and fortane, lands and peasants, at theshvine of her charms,

That was a discovery for whieh he had not bargained ; but }cowimon report soon vasurel him of its reality. The wealth jand rank of young Biselwich would haye made him a pwe'come suiter to the best Wumilies of Si. Petersburg. Like most of his line, he»weas tul and handsome. The princess openly favoured his suit, the stare-eouncillor goneerred in the back-vround he was expecied.to-oceupy, and everybody agree! ibat the bride-elect must be well inclined if she were in hor senses. (aston had observe looking absent snl thoughifal, as if balancing somehiag ia her mind. Was is fot this he had becouse a secoud-valet, an<wered Russian i bells, and abstained from kicking Paulo? The thougit was | sufficient to send a less sensitive subject upon the road to 'self-destruction. Gaston was nearing the borders of that Tomantic land one evening late in the St. Peter-barg winter, when the princess had given ber last ball before Lert. From

her

short, they went by all manter of ways; and I have heard}a corner in the picture-gallery, where he stood as if in

Waiting, be could see throuzh the open doors of the bal!-room

‘suddenly, hed a blue mark round her neck. The princess | Sophia dancing the minzet de la ceur with the young scion (has taken no girl since, and that is three yearsago. People| of the Orloff line. Tue lady was gay with frills of Flanders thought she would dot try it agaia, there was such a whisper. | lace an] pendeuts of pearl ; the gentleman was grand in his os highness lamented sorely over the delicate constitution | anifocw as a cilonel of hussars, of her family, and all her friends eympathised with her ; bat | approaching alliance seemed to pertule tie company ; the now she is going to have another heiress. That is ail I cau | princess susied graciously eu the pair © it was afterwards

A consciousness of their

jremonbered that her bighness said she hoped Providence | would permit her to send one bride from the Grodiz & | CC; and G “80D, like ether dizappoimies w6N, Wat 22h .ug

festivities, and no lack of eard-tab‘es, at which he got an |