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Show TALLBYUASD AND AlttfOLD. TticuK was a day wheu Talleyrand nr-1 rived in Havre, hot haste from Paris, It ; was tho tUrkefet hour iu tbe French lie-volution, lie-volution, Pursued, by the bloodhounds of j this retgii of terror, stripped of every vestige ves-tige of property end power, Talleyrand secured a passage to America, in u ship ; about to sail. IIu was to bo a beggur and a wnudcrer iu a strange land, to earn, his daily bread by his daily labor. "Is there an American staying at your house?" Jiu disked tho landlord of the hotel, ho-tel, "i am bouud to cro9 tho water, and would liltp a letter to u person of iullu-encs iullu-encs iu the Xew World," The landlord hesitated moment, nnd replied! "There is a gentleman up stairs either from America or Britain, but whether an ' Anicricau or Euglishmati, I caunul itD." j j lit? pointed tho way, and Talleyruudr- i i who, iu .hii life, Wits bishop,, priuce, and t ! prime-mtiiiater--nsccuded the stairs. A' . miserable suppliant, he stood before the j stranger's door, knocked, and entered. I In the far corner of the. dimly-lighted Irocuu eat a man of some fifty years; his ! arms folded, aud Im bead bowed on his breast. From a window directly opposite 4 flood of light poured upon his forehead. His eyes looked from beneath the down-cast down-cast brows, and gated upon Talleyrand's face with a peculiar and searching expression. expres-sion. His face was a striking outline; 1 v a"' - s S tuojn'ontli and' cb?rt JndicfttiTnof an. (fort ' will;; c'His iornif jtigordo. cven .wltli ,th s'rwa.otlifty.jreftrs was clad in dark, but!; .dii tttigplshcd Vostntu?.i f t? , 'nf- '" Talleyrand adranced jtatwl: tlroft hq1 rM a.fugUivft ftbd,rijndeir;the hnpressiqti that th'qven'tlcmad, beforft. bim';was"afii. Afnerlcan; solicited his kind' fecllng-,hdi ofllccs. . t- . lie poured 6ut;'upon. LItaj,Iti history In ciqtjncrit French .and broken English;. 1 ,."4Uit awan.dereri wid-cailo,. H-nm' fdrcwi to, fly. to , a n'ew-trqrjd, ttltjtouiri friend horned TC6n;nr' an Ariicrican4 Qivejmej.theii; l;hcscech Jjflwa letter.'of , yours so thal.I'roay i)e;bk)' tfi 'mm Jnjy, daily , hrea.il. ":'XUa jttof atii,haTf filled' liiq ft,ith?di6rrorajitl,i'h'fo 6f;labor. wouhl,hq a paradiso'tq a CttTa'er.or. luxury in'Jb'rance..: ..Xou'WiUgtvalnd a letter to" yittr frtcrids?"A' Benilemaa;liiieryoti has, ;doub'tleWf'many-friends .' The strange gentleman -rose;. jVCiih iopkhat, Talleyrand. "never frggt? hq" re-tjentdt re-tjentdt towards tho ,tfoot,f; thq..hcsi'. rboih, -hicoyc,V'Iqoklng';itjll :froiti beneath Id darkened' hrqw, . lie sppkq si' he. tctrcatetl" hackwardj. .hla voictvw.afulllot mca'mngr ' ,',j-A "1 am. lint poly matbotn' fri .lltaqw ' Ayorld whcaftralso-hia.Jund.WUod antit Say 1 hqiiotjo fnondi-ritQt one . la nlli ' Atnerica.?J, ,v ': . i f ' . Talleyrand never forgrjt the ovcrsrhcljn-o 'Jug sadness of. the look which acconipamcd ! these fewjtvorijs.' , ., , "tyho.Brqyouniict cried, as th6 trango man rctreaied''lownnU the next room--"! '"'tthat Honr "ri'amer " , .-- J0ly ..unta'pho replied wiili' a sntlkj that hadrnibre'of; mockery thatt jqy'ln it CQiifulsvve'Mftrssfon: "myiiaruoisitJM-tlui "myiiaruoisitJM-tlui Arnoti " ' , - He vas.gJtieJ .4 ' ' '; , Tejleyrattd Butiltiutd it'ehr'; gasptug. tho'wordai" ,' ;, - - - - -. vj Ahiil,tftti QUtorP ,? t , ' i Tfius'hq tva'tidered over Ste'-earihnu2' 'other tralrt-wUti' ihq wVndcref's' InaVk. fBii6u"hiabrotvri; v ' 'v 'j |
