Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-04-21
THE FATAL BRIDE.
FROM THE "REMINISCENCES OF BACHELOR
FOUNDED ON AN EVENT WHICH
ACTUALLY OCCURRED.

FROM THE "REMINISCENCES OF a BACHELOR.
The story which am about TO relate,
carries me back about half century; a,
which time, il is needless to say, Dublin
was, in point Of society, very different city
from what ii now is. 1t had then resi-
dent aristocracy, and one whose equipages
and housekeeping were maintained upon
scale which pu, plebeian competition Who'll
ly out of the question. | do not mean TO
offer any ungracious reflection upon the ex-
isting state Of Dublin society We have
now, alas more tuit-hunters than tufts TO
boast of; magnificent prelensions, based,
like the Brahmin's world, nobody can ex-
actly say upon what, strive and strain to fill
the void which egimate arislocracy have
felt and men, whose grandfathers-but
what matters it the thing is after all but
natural. What was a metropolis, is cap
tal no longer; and it is but lost time sigh
ing after the things that once were, or snarl-
ing at those that are.
AT the time of which speak, there re.
sided in Dublin a certain worthy baronet.
whom Iehall call Sir Arthur Chadleigh.-
He was then considerably past sixty, and
was a venerable monument of what was
celled hard living, in all its departments
He had been, until govt disabled him, Q
knowing gentleman on the turf: he was {
deep player and deep drinker, and cover
ed, with an exterior Of boisterous jollity, 1
very cold and selfish heart. He was thor
oughy man Of the world, and what wal
then an essential ingredient in that amiabl'
| ia abb cd
. very determined duelist. Whatever goot
r nature he was possessed OF, he expended oil
society at large In his dealings with hi
f own family, he was arbitrary and severe
i and if he did possess any natural affections
e he had managed to get them all admirabl
e under control, and never was known, unde
Q any circumstances, TO suffer from their owe
! indulgence. This old gentleman had bee
. blessed, in his prime, with an helpmate
! but Lady Chadleigh having been, in he
r own way, about as domestic person as 81
Arthur, one fine morning, at three o'cloc
e precisely when her spouse was enterin
II upon his fourth bottle Of claret in the pal
lor, absconded with young Lord KildalkiI
n The happy pair were oyertaken at Havre
1t the baronet, who, at ten PAGES, duly mee
Is ured, shot off Kildalkin's thumb-a lei
If which satisfied his honour, as some of II
Il Il sterner brethren of the hair-trigger averre'
W at much too reasonable rate. The worll
NJ baronet, however, on his return, explaine
A. satisfactorily 10 bis select circle Of friend
rs "For," said he, "if shot him through Il
Or heod, should not have known what the
10 do with Lady c." As it was, he le
,r his wife in the hands of his rival, as mo
b crate equivalent for the joint.
I'd Lady Chadleigh had not been so cruel as
to leave her lord without some objects
u which 10 exercise those domestic virtu
m. for which he was SO justly celebrated. S
, had been Just five years married, when S
of took her departure, as have stated a
las she left behind her, for the consolation
es her spouse, along with an extensive asso
ment Of macaws, avadats, lapdogs, a
ar other sundries, three chidren-two SC
*, and girl. The macaws, &c, were ca
'e- ~ disposed of, but there was no getting
at Of the children so Sir Arthur called in
-" grim old spinsier sister, who, for louTtt
years, dating from that day, presided at
ing baronets tea-lable, and ruled his little flo
At the end Of that period she died, q
~, much. about the same time died also
,ey unfortunate Lady Chadeigh, forsaken I
heart-broken, in some obscure town
France.
est
rik- Lady Chadleigh's name had been ?
iers scribed-in Sir Arlhur's presence NJ
). dared TO mention IL and, with the exc