Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-14
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A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE

A kOMANTIC MARRIAGE
An English adventure has recently given food
Tor gossip IN Paris; and 50 "All's we'll that
ends well, We are happy to record it. A few
years ago. young English nobIcman, lust
fresh from college, raw and ineynerienccd 'fcIi
I'D Io7e with the laundry maid of the castle
"hefe MS family resided. 1t appears that the
passion nrst seized upon his soul while attend
Ing divine service at a village church, where
Susan by her modest demeanor and BRIGHT
oiue eyes completely overset all the resolutions
which the young nObleman's . mother had con-
eelyed upon the subject Of his future alliance
WIN tas daughter of the Earl of c., whose
estA's joins that of the young nobleman. How
lnS acquaintance first began between a Young
noolenan, who was reading for his de
sles, ana young laundry maid, who could
o. lSaI az All, no chronicle will over tell; but
~ snort ume we find that, by the assistance
Si an old college friend Just received into or
ueIs, 10 inc very village church where the
young lord had frst beheld his Susan. in tho
nrst rosy blush Of an April morning, with no
other witness but the vell-fed paris6-clerk and
Pe"-opener-with no epithalamium but the
Joyous ohant OF the early birds-no penn and
splendor but those afforded by the great sprinc
iesuval OF nature, which the young lord, lust
Ihen deep In Virgil, appr 9ciated more than anv
Othef Kind, was he united to Susan; and before
tne sun was risen to its monday height the hap
Py Palr were already on their way to France.
ha
happy dciuSion which had presented to bis
youthful Imagination the fair Susan as the en-
ohahilng and most lovely of her sex But hon
ey-m0onS are like moons of every other kind
they nave their waning hour; and Mt the end
CI certain time the young lord began to per
eslse, eve % ms utter aStonishment-for no had
never perceived il befOre-that the gentle Su
ssnwas not merely innocent as he had ever
InOught her, but profoundly ignorant likewise.
Every act and every expression of the nOor
laundry-maid now Jared and shocked tie
nerve, OF the young nOblsman In short, tn
"reaaiul TACT was soon revealed to him in ali
It's ughneSs-he was no longer in love,
just about this time the Young mans fauiIv
W whom ms flight with Susan was we'll known
but who still remained in ignorance CONCERNING
the marriage, began to be importunate with re-
spect 10 his return, No longer held by the
ties oil that eli-abSorbing love which had cost
hlm 50 much sacrifice, the young nohleman
agreed In spirit with the views of his family
But how to break the terrible fact to Susan7
10 MS astOniShmeIt, however, he found her
grown as reasonable himself, consenting
without a murmur to the proposition that she
snould remain IN France to imbibe some sort of
education while he repaired to England to pave
the way for an avOval of the truth to his lady
mother. Susan, who had learned to believe
that every idea emitted by her lord was the
right one, consented to everything; and accor-
dinghy, with tears and sorrow at the separation
but with gratitude for all the goodness and
tOro-thought displayed by her husband she
took up her residence at a school in the Fau-
bourg 81. HOnOre, where a dame en- chn11Bre
tlady-boardeT) she was to receive the benefit of
the first instruction which Paris could afford
Time passed on. The young lord was pune
tuai IN his payments, and amid the gaieties of
his new life, as master Of his own actions and
the gatherings and cajOlings Of the fashion
ablo world, he soon began to look upon him
self az bound by no other obligation to the hap
les susan HIS letters grew more and more
rare, always telling Of the extreme restraint in
which he was held by his relations, and the
want Of means by which he suffered urging
the greater necessity for secreyy, until at length
susan, who belieTed all, wrote TO him letter
al OF affection, announcing with pride that an
opportunity occurring Of relieving him of the
burthen OF her maintenance, she had accepted
a situation as companion to Lady E, who was
going to Montpelier for her health and had
been staying at the same school with her
This took pla,e five yesrs ago and during all
this time it would appear that the young lord, !
caring but little for the embarrassment Of the
Introduction OF recognition of his wife, content
with the assurance given from time to time of
her health and welfare, Of the entire purity and
respectability OF the life she was leading was
maintaining at heme The freedom and liberty of
an unmarried man, until a short time since. by
the death of his mother, being necessitated to !
make fresh family arrangements, he was arOus- !
ell from his apathy with regard to the patient !
susan.
Lady E was then residing at PaSsy, and |
IL was thither that Lord NJ directed his |
footsteps on his arrival. What passed at the |
interview, which had been sought by the huS- |
band rs a mere ac9HIt de conscience, and be- I
cause he thought it derogatory to the family |
pride that his wife should live longer among /
strangers, will never be known. To the aston
iShment and delight of Lady E, who had
long been before admitted into the secret, Lord
NJ remained abashed and staggered at the
difference which a few years separation had /
made in his rustic Susan-now grown an elc-
CANT and accomplished woman, listening with
Perfect self possession To all his pretensiOns and
expressing herself with all the reserve and dig
nifty Ot q woman Of the world. Needless to say
that his old passion was revived in full force,
and that Susan is again the queen of his soul,
"a in former years nor will 1t astOnish our read
e.s 20 learn that the husband and wife, once |
more bride and bridegroom, have returned 10 ;
England together.