A TERRIBLE WEDDING-NIGHT.
The dauphin opened the door of the anteroom before the wedding chamber.
The archduchess was waiting, in a long white wrapper, with the strange
anticipation on her brow, along with the sweet expectation of the
bride, of some disaster. She seemed menaced with one of those terrors
which nervous dispositions foresee and support sometimes with more
bravery than if not awaited.
Lady Noailles was seated by the gilded couch, which easily held the
princess' frail and dainty body.
The maids of honor stood at the back, waiting for the mistress of the
attendants to make them the sign to withdraw. These were all ignorant
that the dauphin was coming by a new way in. As the corridor was empty
and the door at the end ajar, he could see and hear what went on in the
room.
"In what direction does my lord the dauphin come?" inquired the
Austrian's pure and harmonious voice though slightly tremulous.
"Yonder," replied Lady Noailles, pointing just the wrong way.
"What is that noise outside--not unlike the roaring of angry waters?"
"It is the tumult of the innumerable sight-seers walking about under
the illumination and waiting for the fireworks display."
"The illuminations?" said the princess with a sad smile. "They must
have been timely this evening, for did you not notice it was very black
weather?"
At this moment the dauphin, who was tired of waiting, thrust his head
in at the door, and asked if he might enter. Lady Noailles screamed,
for she did not recognize the intruder at first. The dauphiness,
worked up into a nervous state by the incidents of the day, seized the
duchess' arm in her fright.
"It is I, madame; have no fear," called out the prince.
"But why by that way?" said Lady Noailles.
"Because," explained Louis the King, showing his head at the half-open
door, "because the Duke of Vauguyon knows so much Latin, mathematics
and geography as to leave room for nothing else."
In presence of the king so untimely arrived, the dauphiness slipped off
the couch and stood up in the wrapper, clothed from head to foot like a
vestal virgin in her stole.
"Any one can see that she is thin," muttered the king; "what the deuse
made Choiseul pick out the skinny chicken among all the pullets of
European courts?"
"Your majesty will please to observe that I acted according to the
strict etiquette," said the Duchess of Noailles, "the infraction was on
my lord the dauphin's part."
"I take it on myself. So, let us leave the children to themselves,"
said the monarch.
The princess seized the lady's arm with more terror than before.
"Oh, don't go away!" she faltered; "I shall die of shame."
"Sire, the dauphiness begs to be allowed to go to rest without any
state," said Lady Noailles.
"The deuce--and does 'Lady Etiquette' herself crave that?"
"Look at the archduchess----"
In fact, Marie Antoinette, standing up, pale and with her rigid arm
sustaining her by a chair, resembled a statue of fright, but for the
slight chattering of her teeth, and the cold perspiration bedewing her
forehead.
"Oh, I should not think of causing the young lady any pain," said Louis
XV., as little strict about forms as his father was the other thing.
"Let us retire, duchess; besides, the doors have locks."
The dauphin blushed to hear these words of his grandfather, but the
lady, though hearing, had not understood.
King Louis XV. embraced his grand-daughter-in-law, and went forth, with
Lady Noailles, laughing mockingly and sadly, for those who did not
share his merriment.
The other persons had gone out by the other door.
The wedded pair were left alone in silence.
At last the young husband approached his bride with bosom beating
rapidly; to his temples, breast and wrist he felt all his repressed
blood rushing hotly. But he guessed that his grandfather was behind the
door, and the cynical glance still chilled the dauphin, very timid and
awkward by nature.
"You are not well, madame," he stammered. "You are very pale, and I
think you are trembling."
"I cannot conceal that I am under a spell of agitation; there must
be some terrible storm overhead, for I am peculiarly affected by
thunderstorms."
Indeed, she shook by spasms as though affected by electrical shocks.
At this time, as though to justify her assertion, a furious gust of
wind, such as shear the tops off mountains and heap up half the sea
against the other--the first whoop of the coming tempest filled the
palace with tumult, anguish and many a creaking. Leaves were swept off
the branches, branches off the boughs and from the trees. A long and
immense clamor was drawn from the hundred thousand spectators in the
gardens. A lugubrious and endless bellowing ran through the corridors
and galleries, composing the most awful notes that had ever vibrated in
human ears.
Then an ominous rattling and jingling succeeded the roar; it was the
fall of countless shivers of glass out of the window panes on the
marble slabs and cornices.
At the same time the gale had opened one of the shutters and banged it
to and fro like a wings of a bird of night. Wherever the window had
been open and where the glass was shivered the lights were put out.
The prince went over to the window to fasten the broken shutter, but
his wife held him back.
"Oh, pray, do not open that window, for the lights will be blown out,
and I should die of fright."
He stopped. Through the casement beyond the curtain which he had drawn
the tree tops of the park were visible, swayed from side to side as if
some unseen giant were waving them by the stems. All the illuminations
were extinguished.
Then could be seen on the dark sky still blacker clouds, coming on with
a rolling motion like troops of cavalry wrapped in dust.
The pallid prince stood with one hand on the sash-handle. The bride
sank on a chair, with a sigh.
"You are very much alarmed, madame?"
"Yes, though your presence supports me. Oh, what a storm! all the
pretty lights are put out."
"Yes, it is a southwest wind, always the worst for storms. If it holds
out, I do not know how they will be able to set off the fireworks."
"What would be the use of them? Everybody will be out of the gardens in
such weather."
"You do not know what our French are when there is a show. They cry for
the pyrotechnics, and this is to be superb; the pyrotechnist showed me
the sketches. There! look at the first rockets!"
Indeed, brilliant as long fiery serpents, the trial rockets rushed up
into the clouds, but at the same time, as if the storm had taken the
flash as a challenge, one stroke of lightning, seeming to split the
sky, snaked among the rockets ascending and eclipsed their red glare
with its bluish flaring.
"Verily, it is impiety for man to contest with God," said the
archduchess.
The trial rockets had preceded the general display by but a few minutes
as the pyrotechnist felt the need of hastening, and the first set
pieces were fired and were hailed with a cheer of delight.
But as though there were really a war between man and heaven, the
storm, irritated by the impiety, drowned with its thunder the cheers of
the mobs, and all the cataracts on high opened at once. Torrents of
rain were precipitated from the cloudy heights.
In like manner to the wind putting out the illuminations, the rain put
out the fireworks.
"What a misfortune, the fireworks are spoilt," said the dauphin.
"Alas, everything goes wrong since I entered France," said Marie
Antoinette. "This storm suits the feast that was given me. It was
wanted to hide from the people the miseries of this dilapidated
palace of Versailles. So, blow, you southwest wind! spout, rain! pile
yourselves together, tempestuous clouds, to hide from my eyes the
paltry, tawdry reception given to the daughter of the kaisers, when she
laid her hand in that of the future king!"
The visibly embarrassed dauphin did not know what answer to make to
this, these reproaches, and particularly this exalted melancholy, so
far from his character; he only sighed.
"I afflict you," continued she; "but do not believe that my pride is
speaking. No, no, it is nowise in it. Would that they had only shown
me the pretty little Trianon, with its flower gardens, and smiling
shades--the rain will but refresh it, the wind but open the blossoms.
That charming nest would content me; but these ruins frighten me, so
repugnant to my youth, and yet how many more ruins will be created by
this frightful storm."
A fresh gust, worse than the first, shook the palace. The princess
started up aghast.
"Oh, heavens, tell me that there is no danger!" she moaned; "I shall
die of fright."
"There is no fear, madame. Versailles is built on terraces so as to
defy the storm. If lightning fell it would only strike yonder chapel
with its sharp roof, or the little tower which has turrets. You know
that peaks attract the electric fluid and flat surfaces repel them."
He took her frozen yet palpitating hand.
Just then a vivid flash inundated the room with its violet and livid
glare. She uttered a scream and repulsed her husband.
"Oh, you looked in the lurid gleam like a phantom, pale, headless and
bleeding!"
"It is the mirage caused by the sulphur," said the prince. "I will
explain----"
But a deafening peal of thunder cut short the sentence of the
phlegmatic prince lecturing the royal spouse.
"Come, come, madame, let us leave such fears to the common people.
Physical agitation is one of the conditions of nature. A storm, and
this is no more, is one of the most frequent and natural phenomena. I
do not know why people are surprised at them."
"I should not quail so much at another time; but for a storm to
burst on our wedding-night, another awful forwarning joined to those
heralding my entry into France! My mother has told me that this century
is fraught with horrors, as the heavens above are charged with fire and
destruction."
"Madame, no dangers can menace the throne to which we shall ascend, for
we royalties dwell above the common plane. The thunder is at our feet
and we wield the bolts."
"Alas, something dreadful was predicted me, or rather, shown to me in
a dish of water. It is hard to describe what was utterly novel to me;
a machine reared on high like a scaffold, two upright beams between
which glided an axe of odd shape. I saw my head beneath this blade. It
descended and my head, severed from the body, leaped to the earth. This
is what I was shown."
"Pure hallucination," said the scoffer; "there is no such an instrument
in existence, so be encouraged."
"Alas! I cannot drive away the odious thought."
"You will succeed, Marie," said the dauphin, drawing nearer.
"Beside you will be an affectionate and assiduously protective husband."
At the instant when the husband's lips nearly touched the wife's cheek,
the picture gallery door opened again, and the curious, covetous look
of King Louis XV. penetrated the place. But simultaneously a crash, of
which no words can give an idea, resounded through the palace. A spout
of white flame, streaked with green, dashed past the widow but shivered
a statue on the balcony; then after a prodigious ripping and splitting
sound, it bounded upward and vanished like a meteor.
Out went the candles! the dauphin staggered back, dazed and frightened
to the very wall. The dauphiness fell, half swooned, on the step of her
praying-desk and dwelt in deadly torpor.
Believing the earth was quaking under him, Louis XV. regained his
rooms, followed by his faithful valet.
In the morning Versailles was not recognizable. The ground had drunk up
the deluge, and the trees absorbed the sulphur.
Everywhere was mud and the broken boughs dragging their blackened
lengths like scotched serpents.
Louis XV. went to the bridal chamber for the third time, and looked in.
He shuddered to see at the praying-stand the bride, pale and prone,
with the aurora tinging her spotless robe, like a Magdalen of Rubens.
On a chair, with his velvet slippers in a puddle of water, the dauphin
of France sat as pale as his wife and with the same air of having faced
a nightmare.
The nuptial bed was untouched.
Louis XV. frowned; a never-before-experienced pain ran through his
brow, cooled by egotism even when debauchery tried to heat it.
He shook his head, sighed and returned to his apartments full of grim
forebodings over the future which this tragic event had marked on its
brow.
What dread and mysterious incidents were enfolded in its bosom it will
be our mission to disclose in the sequel to this book, entitled "THE
MESMERIST'S VICTIM."
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=SIDNEY'S STUMP SPEAKER.=--Price, 15 cents.
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=SUNNYSIDE COLLECTION OF READINGS AND RECITATIONS, NO 1.=--Compiled
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=WEDDING RING (THE).=--This book contains a series of sermons delivered
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1 THE SECRET SORROW. By Mrs. May Agnes Fleming.
2 FUNNY STORIES. Funny enough to make a horse laugh.
3 WITTY SAYINGS SELECTED FROM ALL SOURCES.
4 WHICH SHALL IT BE? By Mrs. M. B. W. Parrish.
5 HOW TO ENTERTAIN A SOCIAL PARTY.
6 OGILVIE'S HANDY MONITOR OF USEFUL FACTS.
7 THE SUNNYSIDE COOK BOOK. By Mrs. Jennie Harlan.
8 SUNNYSIDE COLLECTION OF READINGS AND RECITATIONS.
9 THE FUNNY WORLD. 125 illustrations.
10 LOOKING BEHIND. By Frederick Alva Dean.
11 A FORCED MARRIAGE. By Frederick W. Pearson.
12 THE VICTIM OF HIS CLOTHES. By Fielding and Burton.
13 ONE HUNDRED POEMS. By Jane A. Van Allen, A.M.
14 A DARK PLOT. By Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.
15 TWENTY-FIVE SERMONS ON THE HOLY LAND. By Talmage.
16 A MORAL INHERITANCE. By Lydia Hoyt Farmer.
17 MASTER AND MAN. By O. O. B. Strayer.
18 MARRIED FOR MONEY. By Mrs. May Agnes Fleming.
19 THE FUGITIVES OF PEARL HILL. By E. A. Young.
20 LIFE OF REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE, D.D.
21 FUN ON DRAUGHT. A Comic Book. 10 cents.
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23 FUNNY FELLOW'S GRAB-BAG. Cover Printed in 12 Colors.
24 TWENTY GOOD STORIES. By Opie P. Read. 60 illustrations.
25 A DOUBLE LIFE. By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
26 LOVE AND REBELLION. By Miss M. C. Keller.
27 "CY ROSS." By Mellen Cole.
28 HIS EVIL EYE. By Harry I. Hancock.
29 THE WIDDER DOODLE'S COURTSHIP. By Josiah Allen's Wife.
30 THE HANDY COOK BOOK. Price, 10 cents.
39 DON'T MARRY. By Hildreth.
40 A LITTLE NONSENSE.
TWO HUNDRED OLD-TIME SONGS.
This volume contains the _words and music_ of choicest gems of the old
and familiar songs we used to sing when we were young. It has been
arranged with great care and we have no hesitation in saying that it is
the best book of the kind published. Read the following =partial table
of Contents=. The book contains 130 songs besides the ones mentioned
here and would cost $50 in sheet music form.
Annie Laurie.
Auld Lang Syne.
Angel's Whisper, The.
Black Eyed Susan.
Billy Boy.
Baby Mine.
Bell Brandon.
Bonnie Dundee.
Ben Bolt.
Bingen on the Rhine.
Comrades.
Comin' Thro' the Rye.
Caller Herrin'.
Do They Miss Me at Home?
Don't You Go, Tommy.
Flee as a Bird.
In the Gloaming.
John Anderson, My Joe.
Katie's Letter.
Little Annie Rooney.
Larboard Watch.
Life on the Ocean Wave, A.
Low Backed Car, The.
Mollie, Put the Kettle On.
Meet Me by Moonlight.
Nancy Lee.
O, Boys Carry Me 'Long.
Oh! Susannah.
Our Flag is There.
O Had I Wings Like a Dove.
Old Oaken Bucket, The.
O Come, Come Away.
Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep.
Rock Me to Sleep, Mother.
Sparkling and Bright.
There was an Old Woman.
'Tis the Last Rose of Summer.
Willie, We Have Missed You.
Wait for the Wagon.
Oh Dear! What Can the Matter be.
Oh Why do you Tease Me.
Oh, Would I Were a Bird.
Oh, Would I Were a Boy Again.
Over the Garden Wall.
Pilgrim Fathers, The.
Pat Malloy.
Pauper's Drive, The.
Paddle Your Own Canoe.
Robin Adair.
Robinson Crusoe.
Rose of Allandale.
Star Spangled Banner, The.
Saint Patrick Was a Gentleman.
See Saw, Margery Daw.
Sing a Song of Sixpence.
See, the Conquering Hero Comes.
Stop Dat Knockin'.
Sally in Our Alley.
Scots, What Ha'e Wi' Wallace Bled.
Sword of Bunker Hill, The.
Spider and the Fly, The.
Shells of Ocean.
Steal Away.
Take Back the Heart.
Three Fishers Went Sailing.
Ten Little Niggers.
'Tis the Last Rose of Summer.
Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay.
Thou Art Gone From My Gaze.
There is a Green Hill far Away.
There was a Jolly Miller.
This book of 176 pages containing the above entire list of songs and
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Transcriber's Note
"=" is used in the text to indicate bolded text.
Inconsistencies have been retained in spelling, hyphenation, punctuation,
and grammar, except where indicated in the list below:
- "Sicil ian" changed to "Sicilian" on Page 4
- Quote removed before "One" on Page 7
- Quote added after "strong-minded." on Page 8
- "become" changed to "became" on Page 10
- Comma changed to a period added after "form" on Page 14
- Quote added after "afternoon." on Page 20
- Quote removed after "voice." on Page 20
- "Christain" change to "Christian" on Page 23
- "gentlemen" changed to "gentleman" on Page 24
- "has" changed to "had" on Page 27
- Quote removed from before "Startled" on Page 31
- Quote removed after "seige?" on Page 32
- Quote added after "five." on Page 33
- "ere" changed to "here" on Page 34
- "on" changed to "an" on Page 35
- "oustretched" changed to "outstretched" on Page 37
- "widdow" changed to "window" on Page 41
- Quote removed after "honor!" on Page 42
- Single quote changed to a double quote after "properly."
on Page 43
- Quote removed after "then!" on Page 44
- "semed" changed to "seemed" on Page 44
- Question mark changed to an exclamation mark followed by
a quote after "us" on Page 47
- Double Quote removed after "princess." on Page 49.
- Single Quote added before "The" on Page 49.
- Double quote changed to a single quote after "cordial,"
on Page 49.
- "particulary" changed to "particularly" on Page 54
- Quote removed after "coldly." on Page 55
- Quote added before "but" on Page 60
- Comma changed to a period after "gold" on Page 62
- "of" added after "lap" on Page 64
- Quote removed before "The" on Page 66
- Quote added after "here?" on Page 67
- Quote removed before "Go" on Page 68
- Comma changed to a period after "Jean" on Page 70
- "comm" (blotted word) changed to "communed" on Page 72
- Quote added after "alive?" on Page 74
- Comma changed to a period added after "chastised" on Page 77
- Comma changed to a period added after "up" on Page 83
- Quote added after "lady," on Page 86
- Exclamation mark changed to a question mark after "Chon" on
Page 87
- Quote added after "morally." on Page 87
- "said the" added before "viscount" on Page 88
- Double quote removed and single quotes placed around quotation
within a quote on Page 89
- Quote added after "up." on Page 90
- Quote added after "to-morrow." on Page 94
- Period changed to a question mark followed by a quote after
"coach." on Page 95
- Single quote added after "is." on Page 95
- Quote and indent removed before "Blue" on Page 98
- Period changed to a comma after "angel" on Page 99
- Duplicate "he" removed after "for" on Page 99
- Period removed after "countess" on Page 100
- "Clapping" changed to "clapping" on page 100
- Period changed to a comma after "Well" on Page 100
- Quote added before "and" on Page 100
- "Gramont" changed to "Grammont" on page 102
- "abscence" changed to "absence" on page 102
- Quote added before "and" on Page 103
- Quote added after "meet!" on Page 104
- Duplicate "with" deleted on Page 106
- Illegible word replaced with "****" on Page 113
- Quote added before "but" on Page 117
- Quote added after "knows." on Page 117
- Single quote added after "for!" on Page 118
- "gentlemen" changed to "gentleman" on Page 120
- Comma changed to a period added after "timidly" on
Page 120
- Quote removed after "up," and placed after "Therese," on
Page 120
- Quote added after "them," on Page 129
- "every" changed to "Every" on Page 130
- "harpischord" changed to "harpsichord" on Page 130
- "undestand" changed to "understand" on Page 132
- "freight" changed to "fright" on Page 134
- Period changed to a comma after "castle" on Page 134
- "pain ful" changed to "painful" on Page 140
- "Lorenze" changed to "Lorenza" on Page 140
- "from back" changed to "back from" on Page 140
- "prepartions" changed to "preparations" on Page 145
- "Here" changed to "Her" on Page 145
- Single quote added before "Are" on Page 147
- Double quote changed to a single quote after "me." on Page 147
- Quote removed after "living." on Page 147
- "Saint-remy's" changed to "Saint-Remy's" on Page 150
- Period changed to a question mark followed by a quote after
"highness" on Page 150
- Duplicate "shall" removed after "I" on Page 150
- Quote added after "me!" on Page 151
- "harmany" changed to "harmony" on Page 153
- "Anthing" changed to "Anything" on Page 157
- "to" changed to "too" on Page 161
- "employe" changed to "employee" on Page 161
- Quote added after "master." on Page 165
- "why" changed to "Why" on Page 172
- "fredom" changed to "freedom" on Page 172
- Quote removed after "help," on Page 173
- Period changed to a question mark followed by a quote after
"driver" on Page 175
- "Balsmo" changed to "Balsamo" on Page 178
- "emenience" changed to "eminence" on Page 179
- Quote removed before "He" on Page 184
- Quote added after "be." on Page 185
- "to day" changed to "to-day" on Page 186
- Quote added after "destroyed" on Page 186
- "Parliment" changed to "Parliament" on Page 186
- Quote added before "that" on Page 188
- Quote removed after "beat." on Page 189
- "materializng" changed to "materializing" on Page 191
- "shepherdessses" changed to "shepherdesses" on Page 192
- Quote added after "Well," on Page 195
- Quote removed after "favorite." on Page 195
- Illegible word replaced by "****" on Page 195
- Quote added after "concerned."
- Quote added after "display." on Page 201
- Quote added after "storm." on Page 204
- Comma changed to a period after "prince" on Page 204
- Period added after "$2.00" on Page 211
- Illegible text replaced by "****" on Page 212
- Illegible text replaced by "****" on Page 212
- Comma changed to a semicolon after "secret)" on Page 216
- "hundred" changed to "hundreds" on Page 217
- "has" changed to "have" on Page 218
- Period changed to a comma after "Secrets" on Page 222
- Period changed to a comma after "Items" on Page 222
End of Project Gutenberg's Balsamo, The Magician, by Alexander Dumas