The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-03-23

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: Charles Mordaunt is a young, thought
less man, man, much given to shooting
hunting and other field sports. AT
!; ter the first few months, although lie
kept her in every possible luxury, and
denied her nothing, he :. left his wite
very much to herself. Her delight
was in balls, the opera, garden parties
and the like; all his pleasure was In
z yachting, fox hunting, shooting, fish
ing and other amnsements which took
him. much away from home. She
was very geod looking, very gay, very
thoughtless, very young, and had
!. more than one constant attendant of
the male sex upon her., 1t was the
old, old story. With,-.no one to
guide Or advise her. she overstepped
i the bounds of prudence qndf modesty
in her conduct, and ithen7zto use the
old expression-'.got talked about"
Her sisters, the Duchess Of Athol
and the Countess Of Dudley, tiie,I to
I advise her, butshe defed them. Her
parents attempted to do the same, but
i only with like results. She became
what in the London slang is called
"a fast woman" sIn the fashionable
world there are asetssl and asssets.."2A-- -
Some of these are brought together by
political, Others by religious, others by
family ties. There are, I need hand
say, good. bad and Indifferent people
among them all. IL But there Is q fast
set-a set of,people who look upon
amusement As the first duty Of fife,
and who care less for what others say
of them than you do where the ink
with which I write these lines was
inanufacturedt Lady aMordaunt soon
became IN acknowledged member Of
this; set" She drove the handsona-
est ponies in London, dressed faster
than any lady IN or out of town, lau Oh
ed louder, cared mere for pleasure,
and was surrounded atalI times by' the |
fastest men of the '"fastest", set.--l
Theone person who knew least of
what she did or where she went was
her own husband. =, He had his occu-
pations she had hers. When the
season was over, they went, together
TO their magnificent country house,
Walton Hail, near Warwick, but even
there it was the old story over again, |
The house was always full.of visitors. |
Her EAST, lady friends and her fast
admirers Of the other sex were there
by the score. Sir Charles only looked
to his own amusemehts-' He was alb
sent two or three months in the year
for sporting in. Scotland, or7for fishing
in Norway. Lady Mordaunt got,
less and less respected and more and
more talked about H.5fi = r. -
And now comes the question, what
does London. t.societyy say Of these
proceedings? In the highest circles
Of the land where are two. very. dis
tinct "sets" of "cliques" of people. -
The one L may call the ''fast," the
other for distinctions sake, ''the
slow" Now, to the 'fast" set be-
long most Of those who are intimate
with the Prince of Walas and what
may be termed as ,tthe court" of the
present day. Ia this fast set are to
be found many persons who, ought to
know better, and whose age, if moth
ing else. should keep them in more
respectable paths. But that is their
business And the .theaters, and also
in private houses, Sir. Frederick John,
stone, Lord Cole and Captain Far
quehar are received, even by ladies,
as if nothing had happened. AS for
the Prince of Wales-who,, If not
proved guilty of breaking the COM
mandment, has certainly got the i'm,
putation hanging over his head, and Is
or ought to be, all the more to blame
from the position he holds, and from
the fact of his being married mani
on Saturday last some of the first
men in England, peers and common
ers dined at his table, their respective
wives being with them and onj
Wedncebay next, the day upon which
the trial will reopen, there is to be
grand dinner party at Mr. Gladstonesf
to which som thirty pcaple, are invi. L,
ted to meet the Prince, and there will
be an evening party after dinner, at
which all the ladies. of the highcstI
rank in Lapdon win he presant.
make no comment on this. I III
merely relate the facts. II anything +.
could prove that aacaang,!. has taken
place in the-tone otsEaxlish .'socicty" .
since the days when We really had a
Court ,(and when the Queen and the
ate Prince Consor' set the example
to that society think that what
[-have told you will serve that end
Talk of Italian or French morality
In those countries, if there is sin, it
s at any rite decently covered, not |
openly paraded. Moreover, in these 4
as with you Americans, S
when man discovers his wife to ,
lave committed adultry he gener ally {
But not so in this case-not so in
England, from all I see--Nelo York
Herald.