The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-07-14
DAILY PRESS.
PORTLAN ND.
FRIDAY, JULY IA, 1871
Marrying for Money.
WHAT TRAGICAT RESuTTa GAVIN Dno,. ,,xx

Marrying for Money.
WHAT TRAGICAL RESULTS CAME FROM THE
ACT A
A London paper tells an affecting story of
real life, which shows, for the ten tLousandtb
time the folly of making a woman marry
against her will, and, at the same time, illus
trates the ancient saying that ''the path of
the wrongdoer is full of thorns." The story
is told of one of those aristocratic beauties,
who, reared amoug the splendors of Belgravia
are too often the victims of the luxurious So
ciety of which they are the glory.
The season was about to close, and she,
who had been its favorite and the pet Of all
had oeen won by, and her hand given to, the
richest OF the throng of her admirers. He
was 'pompous, short, sandy haired, red. faced.
and presented from top to toe, that s,amp Of
valgarity which no gold can gld.n She WIS
tall, slender and beautiful, the very immersion.
alton of an English aristocrat, and shone pre-
eminent among the Duchesses, Marchioness-
es and Countesses who composed her bridal
encourage.
Three months after the wedding all LON
ment of the beautiful young wife with one
whom she had known in childhood, and had
loved from the hour when pas sion first budded
in her bosom. He belonged to her "set," and
was young and handsome, graceful and acs
complished, but unfortunately for them both,
he was younger son, and his income was
small; but the ambitious mother of the high
born beauty had constrained her to reject him
for the rich suitor, and to join her hand and
her faith to the one, while the heart was
wholly the others.
The lovers fed TO Italy. and as the lady's
jewels eked out the scant income of the
youth, 1t went we'll enough with them till at
length their bliss was made perfect by the
birth of darling child. Maternity developed
all that was womanly in the mothers breast.
and rounded and completed a character which
would have been faultless had not the unhap-
py girl been forced to forswear herself at the
altar
Thus far the story is one that has been
often told, but now comes a denOuement
which not only distinguishes it from all 9TH
ers, but while throwing pathetic colorine
over the whole, touches in gloomy letters the
misery which sooner or later Overtakes those
who sin against the laws of society.
The husband had been quiet all this while,
patiently biding his time, and planning pun
ishment which would fall with terrible force
ou tHO Womdu Wuo uldue ului wireless and
chdless husband. The lovers were still ly-
ing at Milan, absorbed in the old and the new
love, the child daily growing more dear to
them and they to each other. One day, a
few months ago, it was with its nurse in the
Plaza FOriana. Four men rushed upon them
and bore off the child. The terrified nurse
had barely told her tale to the distracted faith
er and mother when he hurried before the
British Consul to demand his assistance. 1t
w hot fho foll,x ..l II
life out of him. For from the official he
learned that the husband, claiming the child
as his own, by reason OF the fact that it was
born OF his lawful wife, had appealed to the
law, and that it was the resstless edict there
OF which had taken the child from its nurse,
from its father and mother, and given it to
tie man who had the right to its custody, and
who, at the same time, was by every law of
nature and his being, the deadliest enemy of
them ALL
Let him who can, conceive the exquisite
torture which the fond parents felt when this
dreadful deed had been done, and when the
father knew that his darling, the chilli of her
whom he loved better than life, of her who
had so loved him as to sacrifice for him home,
friends, family, honor,-al, was in the merc-
less clutches OF the wronged husband, who
would wreak upon its innocent head the ven
geance with which his wife's infidelity had
inspired mean and vindictive nature. 1t is
not to be wondered at that the poor father
quickly sank under the terrible ordeal, think
ing OF all the misery he had brought on those
he loved most dearly, and that he is buried
not far from Twickenham.
She, poor thing, deriving from his small in
heritance half enough whereon to live, clirgs
to her sad life in the still deferred hope that
her husband may relent, and restore to- her
arms the child of her love-
This is the sad, true story of to-day, and it
teaches lessons to which mothers and daugh-
tiers should alike give heed.