The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-03-16
ROMANCE OF ARIsTOCRACY.

An English adventure, says London pa
per, hasgiven food for gossip in Paris durin,
the week, and ~ ssalls well that ends we'll }
We arc happy to record it, A few years ~,
young English nobleman, just fresh iron
college, raw, and inexperienced, fell desper
ately in love with the laundry maid OF tn
castle, where his family resided. II appear
thai the passion first seized upon his sou
while attending divine service at the villag,
church; where Susan, by her modest domcn
nor and bright blue eyes, completely Oversee
oil the resolutions which the young noble
mans mother had conceived on the subiec
of his future alliance with the daughter Of
the Earl C, whose estate Joins that oil
the young nobleman. How the acquaintance
began between young nobleman who Wal
reading for his degreee and young laundry
maid who could not read at all, no chronicle
will ever tell; but in short time We fnd
that by the assistance Of nm old college friend
just received into holy orders, Ut the village
church, where the young lord had 6rst beheld
his Susan, in the first rosy blush Of 90 April
morning, with no other witness but the we'll
fed parish clerk and pew opener-with no
epithelamium but the joyous chant Of the
early birds--no pomp and splendor but those
Afforded by the great spring festival Of ma
ture, which the young lord, just then deep in
Virgil, appreciated more than any other kind,
he was united to his Susan, and before the
sun was risen to his MONDAY height, the
happy pair we're already on their way to
France. For some months the young lord
lived in the happy delusion which had pre-
scented to his youthful imagination the fair
Susan Ne the most enchanting and most
lonely Of her sex. But honey moons are like
moons OF every other kind they have their
waning hour and ut the end Of certain
time The young lord began to perceive TO HE
utter astonishment--for he had never per-
ceived it before--that the gentle Susan was
not merely innocent, as he had ever thought
her, but profoundly ignorant likewise! He
asked himself how j. could have happened that
he had not observed this unfortunate faot at
the very commencement Of their acQuAin-
tance--how he could have lived in her COM
pany without knowing it--and how it hap
pened that just az the fifth month had begun,
and ne was on the poils Of sitting down to
lead o quiet, domestic life, and enjoy the Sc
curity aud peace of the married estate, he
should start back in fear aud trembling 1t
the fearful prospect before himl Poor Su.
san, Ut couse, could not solve the mystery
existence than ever, while her noble husband
grew more gloomy and discontinued every
dav. AT length the horrid truth became APP
parent. twould be impossible to return 10
England with Susan ~ his bride. Every
act and expression Of the poor laundry maid,
now Jared and shocked the nerves Of the
young noblcman-in short, the dreadful fact
was soon revealed to him in oil its ugliness
he was no longer in love? just about this
time the young mans family, to whom his
flight with Susan was we'll known, but who
still remained in ignorance concerning his
marriage, began TO be importnnate with re-
spect to his return. No longer held By the
tics Of that all absorbing love which had
cost him SO much sacrifice, the young noble
man agreed in spirit with the views Of his
family. But how TO break the dreadful fact
to Susanp To his astonishment, however,
he found her grown As reasonable ~ him
self, 0oDsenting without . murmur, to his
proposition that she should remain 10 France
TO imbibe some sort Of education while he
repaired to England to pave the way for an
avowal OF the truth to his lady mother. Su-
san, who had learned to believe that every
idea emitted by her lord, was the right one,
consented to everything; and, accordingly,
With tears and sorrow at the separation, but
with gratitude At all the goodness aud fore
ought displayed BY her husband, took up
her residence at school in the Faubourg
st. Honore, where, Ms dame en- ch0mbrs, she
was to receivr the benefit of the first instruc-
ton that Paris could afford. Time passed
on; the young load, pnnctual in his pay
ments, soon grew, amid the gayeties Of his
new life, as master Of his own actions and
the gatherings and cajolings Of the fashiona-
bic world, to look upon himself ~ bound BY
no other obligation 20 the hspless Susan
His letters grow more and more rare, always
telling Of the extreme restraint ia which be
was held BY his relations, and the want OF
means by which she suffered, urging the
greAtsss necessity fof sscresy, until II
length Susan, who believed ell, wrote him :
letter full Of affection, announcing with pride
that an opportunity occurring Of relieving
him of the burthcn Of her maintenance she
had accepted q situation - companion 70
Lady r., who was going to Montpelier
for her health, and had been staying In the
same school with her. This took place
about Eve years ago, and during oil that time
il would appear that the young lord, caring
but little for the embarrassment Of the in
PRODUCTION or recognition Of his wife, oor.-
tent with the assurance given from time to
time Of her health and welfare, satisfied OF
the entire purity aud responsibility Of the
life she was leading, was maintaining 1t
home the freedom and liberty Of an nnmar-
ried man, until short time since, BY the
death Of his mother, being necsssitatsd to
make fresh family arrangemcnts, he was
aroused from HE apathy with regard to the
patient Susan. Lady E. Was then resi-
ding at Passy, and II was thithcr Lord NJ
directed his footstcps on his arrival. What
passed ut this intarview, which had hsen
sought by the husband as = mere 0cqwie d.
conscience, and because he thought il derog-
story to the family pride that his wife should
live longer among strangers, will mover b
known. To the astonishmene and delight OF
LADY E., who had long been admitted il
TO the secret, Lord No. remained abashed
and staggered 1t the diference.which he lev
years separation had made in his rustic So
san, now grown m elegant and accomplished
woman, listening with perfect sslf-possss-
sion 10 all his protcstations, and expressing
herself with al the reserve and dignity or :
woman Of the world. Needless 10 Soy, his
old passion Was revived IN full force, and
that Susan 10 Again the queen 81 his soal -
in former yeaSo; nor will il astenish en-
readers that tbs husband and wife, onos mere
bride and bridegroom, have returnsd 70 Eng
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