The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-08


Some famous men that are quite forgot.
Some beauties faded and gray.
Close the book. for tie just as safd-
Full Of pale ghosts from life that's dend
TANNING AN AMAZON.
The lady Arabella Graham was two and
twenty The cold-blooded manner In which
Debrett gives dates, where the ages OF unfor-
t,nAts peeresses are concerned, makes any
reticence on this point useless. There is no
possibility Of giving personal description any
significance except by comparisons, % win
tell you that, since the famous Duchess Of
Marlborough, no English woman ever pos
sessed such beautiful hair, or 30 firm deter
mination to have her own way. Lady Hes.
tor Etanhope was not more eccentric, and ae
the young lady's income nearly equaled that
III the Baroness Burdett Coutta, she was
able to crafty her whims to any extent She
was the despair Of guardians, governesses
and the whole troop OF relations, who wish
ed to mould her into decorous society doll
yet those whom she chose To conciliate could
not help idoiizing her. She was creature
toward whom nobody could hold half feel
ings. She was extreme and made others
30 where she was concerned
want you to understand how womanly and
kind and fascinating and generous she could
be, else you will condemn her as utterly I'M
feminine on account of the capriees which
had made her celebrated from London TO st..
Petersburg. She actually kept betting
book, and penthesilea herself had not a
greater pas sion for horse-iiesh. She was
much more merciful to beasts than to man,
for the latter she treated with cruelty, driv-
! I'M her lovers ana relatives to despair by the
summary way In which she rejected the most
eligible offers.
This spring that saw her twenty-five. the
whole clan, from the noble earl who headed
the family down to the poorest hangers-on,
was shocked and outraged by her disdaining
dueal coronet laid " her feet They teazed
her To such an extent that she Quilted London.
Accompanied by her governess, her pet ser
want, her Irish mare "Spithre,' the handsome
est and worst tempered beast outside OF
pluto's stables, she set sail for France, and de-
scended like q golden-haired Aurora upon Par
is Now the Lady Arabella detested the "city
Of delights" and had an old-fashioned Brit
isi Hcurn for everything Gaelic, but Oh she
said to her old governess-
"Purgatory In peace Is better than Para
disc made bowling wilderness by ones
Mrs. Leigh looked depressed in spirits by
the irrevefent comparisons; but recOilect-
ing how much her charge had lately been
forced to endure, forbore to indulge In SER
my familyp continued her ladyship. per
haps spurred on TO further exaggeratlon by
her companions melancholy, why, I'd rather
have hyenas for cousins, and 9 jungle tiger
would be preferable as an uncle to old Faul-
fsnnhridrpn
sMy dear! expostulated Mrs Leigh,
there Is not more delightful man In the
world than the Earl; such perfect manners,
such"
II vote for the tigerp interrupted Lady
Arabella; he'd crunch my bones quietly,
aud be done; but my uncle wants TO give me
10 some worse brute, to be baited, tortured,
bound down, tied up, sold, hampered, berated,
"My dearest childr
ooh / don't care! dare say it's coarse,
and Wicked-so much the better! protest,
I'm driven out OF my senses, and unless you
want to superintend my keep in mad-house,
don't mention marriage or my relations for
] Ut least three moEths.'
Indeed will not. !" replied her companion,
terrified into temporary submission,
because it's sure to be enjoyable" pursued
Lady Arabella. Mrs. Leigh looked more de-
pressed, Whereupon the young woman added,
venomously, 1--WE will Ii you continue to
dance at Mabille! I'll poison the empresss
monkey" these events, took place during
the Enpire.) 'I'll shoot peas at the Prince
Imperial. and sing the Marseillaise In the
opera house! SO be warned In time, my old
darling r.
She rode her demon-haunted horse through
the Bots de Boulogne, snubbed every English
acquaintance who called upon her, was oblivi-
GUS OF the British Ambassadress' invitations,
sent back her cousins letters unopened, and
a bS,f 70 ay
by scorching letter to the earl.
The eDistle was read in full cOnclaye. Inc
spirit al prophecy entered the earls SOU, and
his oracular assertions caused the Iemlnlnes
4 to weep, and the masculines to tremble.
"What," said he, "can be expected OF the
common herd when the daughter OF an almost
royal house avoWs her contempt for birth,
station, all that keeps chaos aloof! IL IS dem-
socracy, iadicalism the off shoot OF the hydra
beaded monster which rules rampant IN that
unnatural American continent, the home OF
revolt, the land Of denominations, including
free speech"
The family groaned; but no echo Of their
lamentations disturbed the recalcitrant Lady
ArahelIa in her pleasant retreat far up the
Champs ElySees At last the august con-
elave had to cease its means from lack OF
breath, smooth its hair out Of regard Tor
appearances, and allow this Maynard scion
of the race to follow her caprices In peace.
i They did not seem very dangerous caprices
ut present.
Mrs Leigh consoled the earl by a secret let
ter giving an account OF their quiet life. She
WAS emily obliged to chronicle one painful &c
eentricity on the part OF her former pupil.
Lady AIabella had seen dit to make pet OF a
i young bear, which she kept chained in the
court yard, frightening the whole neighbor-
hood into fits at least six times day by re-
Il ports ~ it, escape. The neighborhood COM
j Rlaansd, the police interfered. Arabella
mnsnghed IN their faces, and stood by her bear.
II l ~ earl vas glad to compound for SO inno-
M. ~ sn eseeessneity and Paris regarded ta
n ,ess s hey, OF British insanity.
u MIS-; Lelgh's letter was destroYad IN n aef i
g me Young womans part which ea as ed tel Fl.
MIi her nnn 70 g quite familiar
Z M.tn tie appeared ia public than anl - E.
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re MARQUIS de Cheryille had fnr son,. 49,