Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-01-21
DELAWARE, OHIO, FRIDAY. JANUARY21. 1870 =


ed, smiled, and thought he was fortu
: nate to have obtained Miss Smythe fe
) a quadrille.
He had no idea that she only danced
, fssquare' dances with ineligibles. anC
reserved the tfrOundR' dances for peo
Z pie available A. husbands. F'urther
1 more. Mr. Blakeley5 being dark anG
short, made, Miss Smy mythe appear fafrel
, and taller than she really was. Peol
Mr.. BIakeleY knew nothing of all these
| things, and calculated what he would
do with Miss Smybhe's fortune when
he had carried her OF. He had quite
made mp his mind that he would keen
''stud.n r.
Meanwhile, Miss Sinythe was won
dering whether Lord Splaighton adj
mired Lady Annie Beacham.
'Certainly," she thought, eher beau
ty is far from regular, to say the least
of it,
/ Nor was Lady Annie Beacham's beau
ty capable of definition Ifthe reader
can comprehend what is meant by gen
eral charm, he can understand the or
der of Lady Annie5s beauty. There
1 was that Irresistible fasein about
the woman which is made up of 50
/ many elements, that it may be said TO
/ require genius to analyze il. To say
a wonan is beautiful because her fea-
tures are good, and her skin brilliant,
I her hair exc uisite, and her eyes of a
/ lovely color, is to talk nonsense. 1t is
never these things alone that constr
Il icomplain of dolI-faees No, beauty
must possess regular features, good
| complexion, beautiful form and hair,
at least, some of these advantages but
they do not constitute beauty. It is the
expression over all which results in
conviction that beauty is present. It
is this peculiar fact which often leads
us to discover beauty in a common
face, and turn away from magnificent
4 features because thereris something in
| them which repels.
| If any one then in society had been
/ asked to describe the Lady Annie
| Beaehan1, who is now no longer seen at
| fashionable assemblies, they would
have found some trouble in doing so.
Suffice it to say that she was wonder
/ fully charming, although in words she
affected the brusque.
She took her place among the aristoc-
racy inevitably in an hour; and she
was quite accustomed to English fash
| ionable life, although she had not been
| in England for seven years.
She possessed that wonderful power
that goes by the name of uddptdbiIitgy.
I TpOn this very evening the Princes
good tempered notice was attracted to
the debettG7ste; and upon the lady being
introduced to him he at once asked her
to dance. ga very. frank, Jolly girl, -
said the royal visitor, after a very
racing dance was completed. "Airl,p ?
said one of the companions of the
Prince,-s'she's quite a woman ~
t'Dear mel She went round and talked
| Just like one in her first year out. I've
never seen her before so thought it
was her first year. Really capital 20
Therein lay the Lady Annie's forte.
! She could adapt herself to anybody and
anything.
i Upon these occasions of her debut,
| her appearance caused much antique
talk among those terrible dowagers
who are Wall-fowers of fashionable
life, and who are the depositaries of all
the histories, scandals and woes that
densation of the conversation OF a
couple of these dreaded people con-
eerning the Lady Annie Beacham.
ffShe is unQuestiouably eccentric,-
but, of course, beyond all question, Of
the very best ton"
'eWas there not something very pc
culiar about the death of her mother,
the countess 2" afs
ayes; she lay for some years almost
metionIess. Lady Annie watched most
carefully over her. But she has always
been eccentric; and, indeed, it is said
that about two years before the Count
ess died, Lady Annie positively wanted
to enter sort of Protestant nunnery."
81 have heard something of this, and
indeed, of the cause which prevented
her carrying her plan into execution.
Rut I can hardly believe that she was
stopped by the necessity of parting
with Ser Jewels upon entering the sis
terhood; for although she has some Of
the best diamonds in London, and al
though, as a motherIess peeress, she
could wear them, she has not a jewel
tonight in her toilet
EGAFrs Eitzsfanh6n Won are not e.
quainted with the Beachams as and
nv lord are, for we are their neighbors
down in Hunting gdonshire. The Beach
ans have an hereditary passion for dia-
monds, though not wearing them. 1t
is even said that, in the course OF gem
erations, the family, afflicted almost to
mania by their love for diamonds, have
hidden what they possessed, and have
died and made no sign. Indeed, down
to BIossop it is said that the fortune of q
certain family, now positively mixing
with the gentry, was made by tortu-
nate discovery of jewels by a builder
employed to make some alterations at
Beacham They are all alike Lord
Normanton, Lady Annie, the only
child, the cousins,-they- are devOtedly
given to the greedy possession OF dia-
fnoads: and is probably the effect Of
sympathy which has drawn them into
such close friendship with the present
Duke of Brunswick, whose collections
of diamonds at Paris, and whose insane
precautions for guarding them, form
one of the standing satires of French
society. Of course, the Beaehams are
not so utterly ridiculous as the Duke
in their passion for diamonds; but it
has led them into some deplorable
mistakes"
4she appears very charming per-
She is, and devotedly religious. 1t
is said that she holds possession of the
late Countess's diamonds, and that she
did not wear them even when present.
ed at court. +"
t'Strange infatuation See, she is
dancing with the Earl of Splaighton
'EYes. they are well matched couple
| for he is perhaps the most eccentric
nobIeman in the world
''How is that, Lady Blossop2"
ale holds that the arfstocracy can
only be saved by intermarriage with
very common people, and it is only the
fact of his fathers life which it is said
/ prevents him from marrying-a-a
beer shop young person believe"
stShe appears to pay him much atten-
ton"
/ "And he her. It wonld be strange
they married. One could afford then
to laugh at Lord Splaighton's theories.
/ As it is, the affair is most serions.''
] Here the conversation 6uQ6Q.
Now a fortnight is the short London
season--shorter than ever now--is
quite long period; therefore, at the
i end of May it was quite commonly
| whispered amongst the Wall-dower
1 that the Lady Annie Beacham was GER
| tainly jealous of the attentions paid by
Lord SplaightOn to Miss d'Acier, and
that apparently she felt not disinclin-
! ed to encourage the advances of that
very weak young man, Sir Arthur PEN
nall, who was said to be vicious as well
as weak.
Things were at this pass when, one
/ evening, Lady Annie came home from
a ball, sat in her usual way before her
tOilet-glass, and after her habitual GUS
tom asked her maid in very kind and
! pleasant voice, to arrange her hair.
Suddenly the Lady said, ''Ponsonby,
you started"
HNo, my lady,"
t'Yes; shall tell you why2''
Gas you see fit my lady"
"You saw me looking at myselfin the