The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-03-13
A ROMANCE OF FIFTH AVENUE.
The Extraordinary story TeId Of n New
York Lady lately Dead.

The Extraordinary story TsId Of New
York Lady lately Dead.
The following romantic story appears
in a recent New York letter 10 the Balti'
more Sun On Tuesday there were
borne from a sumptuous house high up
on Fifth avenue, for interment in a Con
necticut town on the New Haven road
not far from this city, the remains OF a
revered wife and mother whose distant
girlhood had supplied the heroine of a
romance as dramatic as ever found ex-
position in novel or on stage. Half a
century ago, when she was the only I'M
married daughter Of an old and wealthy
family of the town in whose cemetery
her body now rests, she came to New
York in the bloom and vivacity OF a
youth Just conscious of its own power,
TO visit the friendly household Of one Of
our first merchants. A prolongation of
her sojourn here did not excite the
remonstrance of her parents until they
were surprised by information that her
delay was possibly occasioned by the
frequent calls of gentleman, leuteu-
ant of the British navy, whose atten-
tons seemed ominously serious, when
her mother took the family carriage pre-
cipitately for the city, to convey back
forthwith the giddy damsel. Upon ar
raignment before the maternal bar the
young lady did not deny the frequent
visits of the alleged sultor, whom her
New York friends had seen no reason to
interfere with; indeed, upon stepping
into the carriage to go home (there was
no New Haven railroad them she said
quite coolly: cts useless to find
fault now, ma, for am married." Such
indeed was the startling fact; after q
short and only finally suspected sum
mer's courtship, she and the lieutenant
had been clandestinely married, and be-
fore Mortified mother and romantic
daughter had been in their Connecticut
home twenty-four hours the bold young
sailor was there too, to claim his wife
But he found her a prisoner, locked il
her own room, and both parents met his
appeals with a steady refusal to &C
knowledge his authority. The girl was
but child, they said, not conscious Of
her own mind, and they should resist
with every possible form of law any at
tempt to remove her from their custody,
The husband, urging that they loved
each other, was told that she whom he
had made his wife in name now only
bitterly regretted her sentimental folly
and wished to see him no more. AS
founded at this assertion, the young
man passionately impugned its truth
Would be be generous enough to give
her up, he was asked, if she herself
assured him of her desire to that effect
Chivalrously, though too rashly, per
haps, he agreed SO to do, confident, un
doubtedly, that she would prove true t.
him. And then came the most extraor
binary scene of the little drama.
married sister, strikingly resembling
the yet imprisoned virgin wife, had beer
hastily summoned from this city for thu
purpose, and artfully dressed to inten
sify the resemblance, hurriedly entered
the room whore the lieutenent was pres
ent, with friend for witness, to learr
his fate, and, with sim alated sobs, has
tily hid her face on her mothers bosom
Surprising her to be the wife, whom h
agitatedly called by name, the deceived
husband begged her to go with him
{" wish to remain with my mother 7
was the apparently fearful answer, with
out SO much as glance for him, ant
without another word the lieutenan
bowed to parents and child and at ono,
withdrew with his friend from the room
and the house. On his way back t,
New York by steamboat favorite do,
that accompanied him leaped overheard
and he, plungiug instantly over to tn
rescue, was drowned