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did not appear, and the distinction of the features was remarkable.
Among his few effects was a printed volume containing the genealogy of his family, which had thrice intermarried with royal houses, once in the family of Maria Lesczinska, wife of Louis XV.
of France.
Within this book he had inclosed one or two cast-off trifles belonging to Mrs. Eames, with a few words of deep and grateful affection.
So ended this troublous life.
The Russian minister at Washington called upon Mrs. Eames soon after the funeral, and spoke with respect of the count, who, he said, could have held a brilliant position in Russia, had it not been for his quarrelsome disposition.
Despite his skepticism, and in all his poverty, he caused a mass to be said every year for the soul of his mother, who had been a devout Catholic.
To the brother whose want of faith added the distresses of poverty to the woes of exile, Gurowski once addressed a letter in the following form: ‘To John Gurowski, the greatest scoundrel in Europe.’
A younger brother of his, a man of great beauty of person, enticed one of the infantas of Spain from the school or convent in which she was pursuing her education.
This adventure made much noise at the time.
Mrs. Eames once read me part of a letter from this lady, in which she spoke of ‘the fatal Gurowski beauty.’
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