Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-05-20

a Romantic Marriage.
An English adventure has pecently give
food for gossip in Paris, and so . Ais we'll
that ends well, we are happy TO record it.
A few years ago, young English nobleman,
just fresh from college, raw and inexpefien-
ced, fell il love with the laundry maid of the
castle where his family resided. 1t appears
that the passion first seized upon his soul
while attending divine service at village
church, where Susan by her modest demean-
or and bright blue eyes completely overset
all the resolutions which tho young noble
mans mother had conceived upon the sub
Ject ct his future alliance with the daughter
| OF the Earl Of g. whose estate IONS
that Of the yoane noblemans How the ae-
lquainfapce frst began between young no.
sslasnau X be was reading for his degree. and /
r. St.Sss Ian. not rad I
at all, no chronicle will ever tell; but in a I
short time we find that, by the assistance of
an old college friend just received into orders,
at the very village church where the young
lord had first beheld his Susan, in the first
rosy blush of an April morning, with no 9TH
er witness but the wellfed parish-clerk and
pew-opener-with ne epithalamium but the
joyous chant of the early birds-no pomp
and splendor but those afforded by the great
spring festival of nature, which the young
lord, just then deep in Virgil, appreciated
more than any other kind. was he united to
Susan and before the sun was risen to its
MONDAY height the happy pair were already
on their way to France.
EOr some months the young lord lived in |
the happy delusion which had presented to
his youthful Imagination the fair Susan as
the enchanting and most lovely of her sex.
But honey-moons are like moons of every |
klnd-they have their waning hour; and at
the end of a certain time the young lord be-
gan to perceive, to his utter astonishment-
for he had never perceived it, bsfore-that
the gentle Susan was not merely innocent as
he ever thought her, but profoundly ignorant
likewise. Every act and every expression
of the poor laundry-maid now Jared and
shocked the nerves of the young nobleman
In short, the dreadful fact was soon revealed
to him In all its ugliness-he was ne longer
in love!
Just about this time the young mans fam
lily, to whom his flight with Susan was we'll
known, but who still remained in ignorance
: concerning the marriage, began to be impor-
. tunate with respect to his return. No lon
ger held by the ties of that all-absorbing
love which had cost him SO much sacrifice,
, the young nobleman agreed in spirit with
the views of his family But how to break
: the terrible fact to Susan! To his astonish-
| ment, however, he found her grown as rea-
> sonable as himself consenting, without
murmur, to the proposition that she should
remain In France to imbibe some sort of ed
ucatlon while he repaired to England to pave
: the way for an avowal of the truth to his la
I dy mother. Susan, who had learned to be.
lieVe that every idea emitted by her lord was
the right one, consented to everything; and,
}, accordingly, with tears and sorrow at the
9 goodness and fore-thought display by her
q husband, she took up her residence at a
q school in the Faubourg St. Honore, where as
u as dame en- chanabre (ladyboarder) she was
to receive the benefit of the first instruction
which Paris could afford.
Time passed on. The young lord was
is punctual in his payments. and amid the gal.
L.: etiss of his ne y life, as master of his own
Y, actions, and the gatherings and cajolings Of
D. the fashionable world, he soon began to look
a upon himself as bound by no other obligation
n rare, always telling of the extreme restrain
a in which he was held by his relations, ant
the want Of means by which he suffered, ur
le ging the greater necessity for secresy, unit
of at length Susan, who believed all, wrote t.
nt him letter full of affection, announcing wit
as pride that an opportunity occurring OF releV
al ing him of the burthen of her maintenance
Id she had accepted situation as cOmpanio
IS, to Lady E, who was going to Montpehe
b. for her health, and had been staying at th
ed same school with her.
a. This took place five years ago, and durin
III all this time it would appear that the youn
ne lord, caring but little for the embarrassment
in of the introduction or recognition of his wifi
lis content with the assurance given from tim
. to time of her health and welfare, of the ell
to tire purity and respectability of the life 81
= was leading, was maintaining at home th
m freedom and liberty of an unmarried mar
ce until short time since, by the death of b
1 mother, being necessitated to make new fan
Is, lily arrangements, he was aroused from b
ny apathy with regard to the patient Susan.
be Lady E was, then residing tPasse
ro- and it was thither that Lord NJ dire
he ted his footsteps on his arrival. What pa
lat sed at the interview, which had been sougl
he by the husband as mere acquitd de c0nscienc
les and because he thought it derogatory to tt
1r. family pride that his wife would live long'
od among strangers, will never be known. !
ice the astonishment and delight of Lady E.
who had long been admitted into the secre
r ? Lord NJ remained abashed and sta
les gered at the difference which few year
his separation had made in his rustic Susan
7as now grown an elegant and accomPlisht
ath woman, listening with perfect self.posses
IN ion to all his pretentions, and expressing he
ose self with all the reserve and dignity of
ng, woman of the world. Needless to say, tn
ne, his old passion was revived in full force, al
70 that Susan is again the queen of his sol
ian as in former years nor will 1t astonlsh o
mt readers to learn that the husband and Wi
once more bride and bridegroom, have retI
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