The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-26 00:00:00

A ROMANTIC STORY.

The _Kendal Mercury contains the followin,
romantic story :

" It will be in the recollection of most of our
readers that on a fine morning, in the summer of
1854, the quiet town of Appleby was startled with
unusual activity by an announcement that a young
girl, resident at a boarding-school in the town, had
disappeared during the night in company—as was
suspected, and as turned out to be the fact—with
her music teacher. The young lady's age at the
time was, we believe, 13 or 14, while that of the.
gentleman—who then held the situation of organist
of the parish church—might be about 24. Pursuit
was forthwith given, and the electric telegraph put
in motion, but the parties arrived at Gretna, where
marriages could then be celebrated, ad libitum,
without regard to age or any other of the legal re-
quisites attached to the English ceremony, and the
Gordian knot was tied ere a veto could be put upon
the rash proceedings. No doubt the happy pair
now thought the worst past—a too common delu-
sion—and that explanations and reconciliation
would follow merely as a matter of course, and their
future felicity be secured. But, alas their hopes
were soon dissipated. At the Carlisle station, on
their return, the iron hand of the superintendent of
police was laid upon the arm of the happy bride-
groom, and he was consigned to durance vile on a
charge of abduction,' while the young lady, his
wife, waq straightway hurried to her paternal home
on the banks of Lake -Windermere. On a subse-
quent day the wrath of the lady's parents, and of
the :schoolmistress who initiated the legal proceed-
ings, being unappeasable, the captive lover ' was
fully committed for trial by the Carlisle bench of
magistrates, and at the Westmoreland assizes, held
at Appleby, in the month of August following:—
the mother of the young lady appearing as a wit-
ness against him—he was found guilty and sen-
tenced to 9 months' imprisonment as a first-class
misdemeanant. A question was discussed by the
public at the time whether the marriage which had
been celebrated between the parties was binding
upon them, but by the legal world, including the
judge who tried the case, we believe no doubt of
its validity according to the laws of Scotland, bind-
ing in England, was entertained; and that, not-
withstanding the conviction for abduction, the
gentleman, on the termination of his imprison-
ment, would have a legal right to claim the
possession of his youthful wife, Be this, how.
ever, as it may, we commit the question to the
hands of the curious in such matters, while
we proceed 'ith nitr teniarkable narrative.
me young lady, as we. have stated above, on
being ruthlessly torn froin him she had taken
for better for worse, was consigned to the care of
her parents, and here for a whilee' we leave her.
The term of her husband's imprisonment having
expired, he resumed his profession as a, teacher of
music, and although at the same time numerous
were his inquiries after, and great his search for,
removeds
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'i-ye are not writing an imaginary romance,
—46 a novel adventure ln real life, and, have no de-
sire tn, fill tip the interim with suppositions of our
own invention, we bring our tale to an end by
simply stating what will be gratifying to all true
lovers to learn, that the happy pair were reunited
in the bonds of holy wedlock,' on the 12th inst.,
as appears more at large in
.our list of marriages
this day, and are now spending their honeymoon
among t the beautiful lakes and mountain scenery
of Westmoreland, where, and evermore, we wish
them everlasting felicity."

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