| Show gossip about the emperor the paris pans gossips tell the following story a bout the emperor the sudden despatch of oc a young ayoung scion of 0 the imperial house to st petersburg is said to be owing to an rv awkward akward circumstance which happened at the last petit bal of the empress the young gen gentleman t ieman who is is looked upon as the most intrepid dancer in paris pans had exerted himself to so great an extent to justify his reputation that by the time lime the cotillion chilli n was formed he felt himself utterly incapable of moving a toe having eng engaged a d himself for the waltz in in tins this figure he fett eft embarrassed how to obtain the rest required tor for his helpless state without giving of fenc enze A friend advised him to hide himself behind one of the window curtains chile vi hile the waltz was being performed when the idy lady to whom v hom he was engaged engaged not finding him lim at once would most like likely y choose somebody else from amongst the competitors and thin think no more of it this advice was followed lowed d and no sooner was the youth installed in in his hiding biding place than the emperor and adlle vv ho had finished their tour de valse came to sit in the faut fauteuils euils before the window every word which they uttered in in the roost most mysterious whisper could not fail to reach the ears of the young man 0 who fearful of being discovered was compelled to remain hidden until the end of the soiree 1 the he next flay day as in in honor bound lie he sought and obtained an audience of the emperor and revealed to him the accident which had bad occurred the emperor fe felt I 1 t the consequences no need to explain them and immediately formed the special mission wherewith to entrap him and thus thu s procure his absence we are yet at a loss to know whether the story is true trite or merely got up for the purpose of accounting tor for the sudden marko mark of favor or which has been bestowed upon another relative of the empire |
