The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-11-06
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And so it went--day after day, week af-
ter week, the gate Of the hotel was thrOng-
ed with Englands proudest and noblest, and
the eyes of the fair Irelandaises were almost
dazzled by the array of brilliant names,
whose cards were hourly sent to them; and
even Matthew began to think that his wife
was not so foolish as he had once deemed
her, From the duchess to the baronet's
lady, from the peeress, who boosted of de.
cent form the PIantageDets, to the p0rusHu
Of yesterday, oil alike strove to do them hon.
or; and more than once has the proud duch-
ess, in whose veins flowed the blood of
Kings, found her rooms deserted on the
night OF her magnificent (ete; because whyl
she neglected to invite the Cummings; and,
to her modification, she would hear that the
rooms of the rich bankers wife were crowd
ed the same evening with. the elite OF the
nobility, and the magnet Of attraction was
the fair sisters. The few solitary excep-
tions gave way before the overwhelming
tide Of excitement that was rushing on like
a mighty torrent, and the usually inyincible
aristocratic walls OF Almack'S fell without
a blow, before the irresistible power Of
beauty. And now had their mother been
alive, she might indeed have thought her
fairy dream realized. .... ...... o.. --
No person who was not spectator can
hardly conceive of the rage for the fair sis
ters that was evinced by the fashinable
world. Walpoie in his letters, speaks Of
it as the most extraordinary thing that hap
pened for centuries. Selwyn the famous
wit, was a devoted friend of the eldest sis.
ter and evinced it for many year. And
now came the sleeper's dream! The Duke
of Hamilton, one of the most courted aud
admired Of the unmarried mobiles, and at
whose approach managing mammaS famed
themselves violently, so as to appear uncon-
cerned, and the unconscious daughters look
ed down and smelt Of the boquets, whose
movements were watched by many glitter.
ing eye and anxious heart; he, the young
and naughty Duke of Hamilton and Brand
on, was vanquished by the young Elizabeth;
and before the end of the season, the ducal
coronet was in reality placed upon these
shining tresses. In the course of fortnight
from her sisters marriage, Louisa married
the Marquis of Coventry. a-.
The rest of their career is known to all
the world Who has not heard of the shoe
maker who made upwards Of two guineas by
exhibiting slipper he was making for Lady
Coventry at penny head! And al so read
with amazement, Of thousand persons who
sat up all night around the doors of the ho-
tel to see the duchess of Hamilton enter
her carriage at an early hour in the morn.
ing! Who would ever have dreamed that
the daughters of an humble Irish farmer
should thus became an integral part Of that
naughty aristocrscy Of England! But SO
it was, and the bright-haired Lizzie, who
reclincd beneath the willow, hushed to sleep
by the music OF her mothers spinning wheel
lived to become the wife of two Dukes, and
the mother Of four (For after the death
of her first husband, she married the Duke
of Argyle.) ., .a7sr@aa..4.s' =. ear
There is scarcely an instance on record
which more clearly proves that truth is
oftentimes stranger than felton," than the
history of the motherless daughters of Mat
thew Cunning. Lady's Wreath.