The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-08
A GRETNA GREEN STORY.
The Case of Lord and Lady DundOnaIt IL;
A Romantic Episode,

The Case of Lord and Lady DundOnais:
A Romantic Episode.
! A writer IN an English magazine, be-
/ lleving, with Charles Reade, that there
are poetry and humor in the Blue
books and the newspapers, contends
that the best gets overlooked. Nobody
seems to find out the magic flower gar
den, which is romance; while every
one discovers the enormous gooseberry,
III which there is no romance at all,
though there may be much that is re
markable.
There is some real romance to be
found in book which is virtually a
blue-book, in connection with Lord
Dundonald, to whom they are erecting
a monument i'll Chill. In the wear 1861,
the case of the Dundonald peerage was
before the House OF Lords, and the old
Dowager Lady Dundonald was exam
med as n witness upon the claim of her
son. She was sixty-four years of age,
and was treated with great indulgence.
She was not tied down to the ordinary
rules of evidence, but allowed to ram
BILE and expatiate just as she pleased
and, indeed, it would probably have
been found impossible to get much out
of her if she had been strictly dealt
with upon the ordinary principles for
conducting an examlnation-in-chi
She shall tell the story of the courtship
IN her own words. There were appar-
emily many obstacles to begin with:
He proposed to my aunt. He did
not propose to me. Hehad once named
the subject to me, and / refused all
sorts of things of the kind and ut
length he made the proposal to nv
aunt.
Then she asked the question: Gle
was IN love with your ladyship / sup,
pose?"
The world said so, suppose it was
SO. 1t was an unlucky marriage for
HIM, poor man. Then there was
| another person who had large property,
and he thought that not marrying the
lady that he was wished to marry land
certainly he was not wished to marry
mel, he should avoid by a secret mar
rlage painful position to himself and
his fortune going away from him: and
that by Keeping my marriage secret
| 1t should never Interfere with that ar
rangement of his uncle's. That was
gwen to me as the object, and [ had no
right, and [ had no reason, to doubt
the word of the most honorable man |
had ever known, [ loved him. He
had once named the subject to me and
l refused him. [ refused all sorts of
things of the kind, and at length he
made the proposal to my aunt; dear me
| men III love are very foolish. >
Lady Dundonald appears to have
| hppn ,ol Nv
of her elopement; and there is some
thing truly and deeply comic in her
feeling 50 puzzled to know why she
should be married 50 many times.
| When Dundonald persuades her to go
oil to Grctna Green with him she has
nice time of il travelling all day and all
night, with four horses, and all that.
| She says;
was very worn, and we went roll
ing on; and L slept, and SO did he. At
one part of the road know it was hot
Gretna Green, but some little distance
after Gretna Green--he said, Well.
thank God we are all right ; he used to
call me sort of pet name OF his own.
and he said, 1t is al right, Mouse-we
are all right now. Moxham. mind Won
get comfortable room for Lady Coch
rane at the Queensberry Arms. We
shall soon be there, and he said moth
ing more
81 did not know WHY it
was all right He said, sMoase we
are over the border He said. Here
we are over the border now, and moth
ing but God can separate us think
he sad at the same time, You are
mine now, and you are mine forever
and he snapped his fingers in that
| way, as Scotchmen do when they are
! pleased"
When [ arrived at the
Queensbury Arms he was very Joyous
suppose men in love are. He said.
It's all right; it is all right and he
seated himself at the table in the room:
he sat himself down as any gentleman
might, and wrote away, and wrote
something, and then he said, L want
DICK he used to call his servant
Dick"
8 After the paper was signed. and the
servants gone away, he began to dance
the Sailors Hornpipe, very unusual
thing tor him, and he put his hands in
'hat sort OF way, and said, Now Won
are mine, Mouse, mine forever RI
sad, L do not know, / have had no
pafson here, and 70 church. Is this
the way you marry in Scotland 2 ooh
yes, ne SAID, you are mine, sure
enough; you cannot get avay:' and |
then he said, : l have no time to spare.
L have no. time to lose, for I must be |
back on the 10th to my urcle's mar
rage; he is going to be married. and
ne Will be married on the 18th. or the
i2th; L have not n moments time TO !
lose, and therefore [ must leave Won as |
fast as L can. have given all nv in
struetlons to Dick, and he will bring
you back as soon as he can. He kissed |
me he did not go into my room j; and
he went off as he came. / never saw
him again until the 10Th or the 18th.
wehn we met IN Bryanston street, Port
man square.
Some relatives of the lady insisted
upon the marriage being repeated in
the south
They were old-fashioned, excellent
people, and they wished to have this