Show A wit another grand lady whose death is announced noun ced was the duchess of malakoff As a girl she was the intimate friend of the empress eugenic in fact the empress and recollect near akin walking in the garden of the palace one day who should heave in sight but marshal malakoff notoriously the roughest and rudest man in all the french service ugh there is eliat bear again the empress with a shudder of genuine horror but her young companion said nothing the marshal approaching and bowing to ladies besought the younger one to honor him with the rose she had just plucked certainly I 1 will pvc it to you answered the girl sweetly but how can a rose please you who live only for laurels this answer completely staggered the marshal in another moment he was hopelessly and wildly in love with that girl and it is to his credit that he prosecuted the campaign so diligently that a year later the beautiful young creature became hia wife speaking of the episode in tho garden malakoff Mala kofl used to say 1 I thought I 1 was hard to conquer but in that case par bleul I 1 surrendered at the very first fire |