Middletown transcript., 1876-08-19
Selett Storp.
ROMANCE OF HISTORY.

very handsome young man. But b
had a sister Donna Larga, whose beauty
in that country noted for its handsom
women, was SO great that most of th
unmarried grandees solicited her han,
before she was twenty years old He
brothers wife was an Italian woman
good looking enough, but utterly dis
solute.
The first thing she did after her arri
val in Madrid was to hunt up lover
whom she found in the handsome
guardsman Godoy. who played after.
ward so wretched q part 10 the history
Of the Iberian Peninsula.
Their criminal intimacy remained nc
secret to the members Of the royal
family and especially indignant was
the queens sister, whose life until then,
despite the many temptations to which
she had been exposed, had been blame
less. !. - ~
One day, inJ17S4. the princess met
her royal sister-in-law under suspicious
circumstances, and the queen, an hour
later, sent for ber. ms Ultlfgt,g
Donna Larga came, but was as frigid
as ice when the queen kissed her.
''Largita mia ;'ssaid the queen to the
beautiful girl, "do you know that you
are wasting,you life and your beauty 2"
The princess looked at her in sur
prise ard asked:
"What do you mean?"
"Can anything be palmer, my beau
tiful darling? What / mean is, that
your brother does not want you to
marry at all, although all the handsome
men in Madrid would be only too glad,
if you should smile upon them"
but Why" asked the princess,
"does he not want me to get married ?"
Pretty little goose, F" said the queen,
"because, under our laws, here, you
might become his successor if | should
remain childless.
The two women parted few minu-
tes later, and the princess went to her
boudoir.
What her royal sister-in- law had told
her had set her to thinking. The i'm
petuous blood Of the Castilian race was
coursing through her veins.
The homage Of her admirers had not
been lost upon her. The idea that she
should not get married on account Of
her brothers political jealousy provoked
her. So, labering under intense ex-
citement, she took from her desk the
large bundle Of love-letters which she
had received during the past few years.
She read the tender missives, which
had been written upon the smoothest
Vellum. HfE9Gsl 8klnfDF sTRI
One letter after another was tossed |
aside by her tiny hand, until she OPEN
ID the, following brief. note y 4r4J
" III Mast, Heaotajle, sBsdutitful and IN,fa-
,us Donna Lngd 7aJld, Sonora de Bourbon
rhe writer is the head of the Sidonia-Medina
amily. He would be the happiest man in
Spain if Donna Larga would become his wife.
SsSoR Don GARCIA SIpoNIA DE MEDINA.
"Aud I, said the princess to her
'elf. "in my vain pride, was foolish
enough not only to refuse this offer from
| very handsome man, but to insult him
publicly in the pardo."
Suddenly she jumped up and rang
Ter bell.
A very handsome duenna entered,
,owing, deeply.
"Estrella," said the princess to her,
will you 60 for me on secret errand
# the greatest Importance ?"
The ducnna bowed and replied:
"Your Highness may command my
ervices." sial3 va
'Then 60 to the Count Sidonia de
Iedina, and tell him to come, and see
,e without delay"
"Bat, your Highness.-
"You refuse to 60, Estrella p
"No; but" ~
but what ?" cried the princess with.
ashing eyes,
But you know what people would
,ink Of such an interview
Il order you to DO my bidding I! If
ou refuse, you shall suffer for it."
The duenna bowed and went out.
She did not go straightway to the
alace Of the young grandee, but. spy
she was like the most of her ilk, she
nocked at the kings door. /
He was lying on bis lounge, and /