The Empire Of The Nairs 1811 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 edition. Excerpt: ... found a husband, a husband found me V No. She bade me sit down in the alcove, and related her history. " She was of an antient family. in the south of France, and married in her sixteenth year to an officer, to whom she had been promised almost in her cradle. Happy in their mutual indifference, they both followed the bent of their inclinations. The Marchese Orlandini, a Florentine gentleman, had entered the French service, and belonged to the same regiment with her husband; he became her ami de maison, and loved her with the ardor peculiar to his nation; when some domestic concerns having required his presence in Italy, the Vicomtesse, who had fainted at an assembly two evenings before his return, was just buried. He ran about the town in a fit of despair; at midnight he woke the sexton*, and, with a pistol at his breast, obliged him to * uLes Causes cckbres;" or, Remarkable French . Law-suits. conduct him to the vault, where she still lay in state. She seemed so fresh and blooming in death, he cast himself upon her body, and the warmth of his kisses revived her; she opened her eyes and saw herself in the arms of her adorer. Having married, they fled across the Alps, and she was received with open arms by his family at Florence. Marriage is the tomb of love. He ceases to be the attentive gallant who presented his arm to her at every public place; nor is she the rosecolored beauty who expected him in her conscious boudoir. Two lovers only meet when in good humor, or when resolved to be so; a married couple think themselves entitled to torment each other with their ill-humors. When a lover presents a trifle to his beloved, she receives it with smiles; when a husband makes a present to his wife, which indeed happens seldom enough, he...