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Full Title	Valerie / by Captain Marryat.
Author	Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.
Date Added	19 February 2014
Format	Journal
Language	English
Publisher	New York : Norman L. Munro
Series	Riverside library > v. III, no. 78.
Source	Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title	Riverside library, v. III, no. 78.
Topic	Popular literature > Periodicals. Dime novels > Specimens.
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OCR , > . . lnvery Work in this Library is Ilnabridged and Completve.‘ A i x s ' P , a .:A .c..,o 9 s i I , 9': in '$ ' BY car-nus JIARIIYAT. ”' ’ l:i est Works ofthe Greatest Authors in the Cheapest Library in the Nvorld. , The Brig t ," V , , NORMAN L. zuormo, Pvnmsnrzn mun ‘ ‘ '. V01, No. 7-i Beaxmx Six, New Your. ' l 10 CliN’l‘S. i No- V V ‘ calculate in his mind whether the possession ofher was that If he had lost the brigade, he would beindcmnified x- n I I indemnification suifirient for the loss of the brigade by the pension. My mother was certain oflt; and do- ; i - p E. which she had cost him. clarod it was It b0Y- " . i ‘ To account for my father's sotisfmtlongghmnst ac; n lint gropheaies. hairs and declraratlons were all fa.lsl- f , '. ' sine ‘sh cl "ii at umstances w are no e an over rown y my un ortunste appearance. . BY CAPT‘“N M-‘nnY“T' 3;-y Wellokgeoawiif “A‘s‘Ibe?o:re observed. Napoleon had‘ The disappointment of my father was great ; but he ‘ 3, ‘ j no objection to marriage, because he required men for re it like a man. My mother was not only dishp. '1 CKA 1.“, L his army 2 and because he required men, and not wo- p<1inted,b'JtSndlgnant. She foltmortifled. alter nllhcr men, he thought very poorly of a married couple who declarations, that I should have appeared and disproved I E"! “ued mesa pages Wm, nothing more than my produced s plurality of girls. Lt, on the contrary, a them. Sh e Wu a woman of violent temper. a discovery which my father made too late. To ‘ I1:-'0I&:a -, um ta .<....,.........o.t.....uno-....e.-vim.-.i.....-r............a. ‘.....':.-v.'.ae '. ' ' ‘ baptismal name. If the reader nude smllcisnt interest in them to read to the: end. he will discover the position that 1 am in, nfter an eventful life. I shall, however, not trespass upon his time by making many introductory romuhs ; but commence at once with my birth, parentage, and education. This is necessary, as although the two drst tire, perhaps, of little comparative consequence, still the latter is of im‘ portsnce; as it will prepare the reader formany events in my afterlife. I may odd, that much depends upon birth and parentage; at all events it ‘is necessary to complete a perfect pio- A tnre. Let me, therefore, begin at the beginning. woe born in France. My father. 5 who was of the ancienne mblexse of France, by a younger branch of the best blood, and was a most splendid gpecimen of the outward man. was the son of an old ofhcer, and nnomoer him- self in the army of Napoleon. In the conquest of Italy he had served in the ranks, and continuing to follow Xa- poleon through all his camphlgus. 11143 Arrived to the rods of captain of cav- alry. He had 'stinguishedhimselfon many occasions, was a favorite of the Emperor's, wore the cross of the Legion ofHonor, and W88 CODSWGPM , in a fair wa'y to rapid promotion. when ' he committed A great error. During the time that his squadron WM Occu- pyinga small German town. situated on the riverErbach, called DeuxPonts. he saw my mother, fell desperately in love. and married. There was some excuse for him, for I more beautiful ‘woman than my mother I never be- held; moreover. she was highly talented. sad 3. most perfect musician: on good family. and with a dower by by no means conternptible. The reader may say that, in marry- ing such a woman. my father could hardly be said to have committed a very great error. This is true. the error was not in marryimz. but in al- lowing his wife‘a influence over him to stop his future advancement. He wished to leave her with her father married. but I very great dislike to their wives accompanying the army; sud this was the fault which my father committed. Ind which lost him the favor of his general, M, mom“ was me, as the cause of her humiliation and disappointment. she tool: an aver- sion, which only increuul as X (row up, and which, as will be hereafter shown, was the mainspring of all my vicissitudes in alter-life. Surely there is an error in asserting that there is no feeling so strong as maternal love. How often do we wait- nessinstnnces like mine, in which dis- appointed vanity, ambition. orintcrest, !h‘avo changed this love into deadly atol lily father, who felt the inconveni- ence of my mother accompanying him on force-l marches, and who, perhaps, being disappointed in his hopes of u pension, thought thathe mightas well recover the Emperor‘: favor, and look for the brigade, now proposed that my mother should return it be two children to her parents. This my mother, who had always gained the upper hand, positively refused to ac- cede to. She did. however, allow me and my brother Auguste to be sent to her parents’ care at Deux Pants. and there we remained while my father followed the fortunes of the Emperor, and my mother followed the fortunes ofmy father. Ihavs little or no ro- collection ofmy maternal grandfather and grandmother, I remember that I lived with them, as I remained there with my brother, till I was seven years old. at which period my paternal grand. mother offered to receive my brother and me and take charge of our educa- tion. This o8‘cr was accepted, and we both went to Luneville where she re- aided. I have said that my paternal grand. mother offered to receive us, Ind not my paternal grandfather, who was still alive. Such was the case; as, could he have hill his own way, he would not have allowed us to come to Lune- ville, for he had a great dislike to child- ren: but my grandmother had proper. ty other own, independent of by hug. band, and she insisted upon our comlng. Tory often, after we had been ruceived into hei-house, I would hear iemonstrance on his part relative to the expense of keeping us, and the reply of my grandmother which would e, “Eh bi).-n, )Iom:‘curCllatma14f, ((5: Hum rgml queje depmre." I must de. scribe Monsieur Chatenmuf. As I be- V'ALEl'!Il"3. too beautiful a woman not to be noticed. and imrnerll- woman presented her husband with six or seven boys, ateiy inquired about, and the knowledge soon came to Hire was an oiiicer in the army, he was certain of s Napoleon's em.’ “,1 mmuged ggninst my father’: pension for life. Now, as my mother had commenced future advancement. with I boy, and it is well known that there is every ‘ During the first year of me“. msfflgge my eldest chance of: woman continuing toproducetheserwhich brother, Auguste. was born, Ind shortly afterwards my mother promised an increase to the fsmlly, which was and congratulated by the oilicers when she sosoon gave ‘first makes its appearance, she was much wmplirnented signs of an increase, and they prophesied that she now th th had been marri d th . Id would, by her fmltfulnnss. in a few rem obllin I pen- nt ti.mc:lo:h at my mothsr,ean31%:uuEl.:ce=,h:‘:hs, sion for her husband. My father bopedso, and thought fore stated, he had been an omcer in the French army ; but had now retired on his pension, with the rank of Major, and decanted with the Legion of Honor. At the time that I am saw him. he was a tall, elegant old man, with hair as white I! silver. I heard it said, that when young, he was considered one ofthe bravest and hand. nomest omcers in the French army. Ila was very ole: in his manners. spoke very little, and took a args quantity ofsnud. lie was egotistlo to excess. lttcud- lng wholly to himself and his own comforts: and it was because the noise of children interfered with his comfort that he disliked umn so much. We saw um.