The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-15

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such sentiments, and more soberly reflect
that the words revealed the beautiful
Beatrix more perfectly even than por-
trait by Kneller.
As he turned over the fading manu-
scripts, and perused the record of so mean
a worldliness he might well wonder that
a woman could be so beautiful in her face
and SO deformed in her soul. The ghostly
letters would gradually seem to him re-
pulsive from their want of brilliancy or
humor, and from the lack of any glimpse
of the life or society of the time, except
that of her own spiritual barrenness.
He certainly would find them without
charm of style, or any charm what
ever, and they would be notable only
as study of character, and a character
hard and selfish and wholly without at
traction. Doubtless his mind would con-
stantly recur to the famously beautiful
woman, and he would perhaps doubt as
he read whether, after all, she did not
go off with prince, to be disowned pos
sibly by his family, yet, still to pride her
self upon the connection, and to shine in
court circles with an indirect luster shed
by royal name. If it were but the i'm
perial family of Barataria to which she
could claim some tie, if she could only be
recognized as Princess Panza, it would
be glory enough, and the Lady Beatrix
would envy no woman.
But how much more would Mr.. War
rington be amazed if he discovered as he
read the yellowing manuscript that his
beautiful relation had been for time the
rightful wife Of king, and by marriage
a member of the most conspicuous family
in Europe of her time, and at most in
teresting period of history! How would
his amazement grow as he perceived that
the writer of the letters that he held lived
for many years in the highest circles
frequented by famous figures of every
kind, herself by her name and her beauty
striking part of that brilliant society,
and that, with her unequalled opportuni-
ties, her letter might we'll be fascinating
chapters in delightful kind of itera-
turel He would scan the leaves with
fresh eagAness to seize the very form and
pressure of a prodigious epoch, and if
some happy thought suggested to him
that woman of whom tradition said
that beauties envied her beauty and wits
dreaded her wit, that kings sought her
acquaintance and princes claimed her
friendship, might write letters which
should show the savoir-vivre Of Chester
field, the cold cynicism of Rochefoucauld,
and the practical economy of Franklin,
he would think it only probable, and turn
the page to see what the clever Lady Be-
atrix said of Bolingbroke and Marlbor-
ough and Harley, Of Addison and Swift
and the Duchess.
This is what he would read-some of
the illusions seem, indeed, to be singular
for beauty and wit of the last CEN
tury:
Marriage ought never to be entered
into for any other purpose than comfort,
and there is none without consequence
and fortune; without these it is more pru-
dent to live single"
"For this life there is nothing but dis
appointment. The happiest are those
who support misfortune best. l find that
travellers exaggerate; there is scarcity of
money in all families, and in all coun-
tries people have poor relations to sup
port"
"There is no knowing how marriages
may turn out-women may treat bus
bands i'll, leave them, die before them;
but if good provision is made for the
husband, there is nothing lost by risking
a marriage"
"Walter Scott's novels would amuse
you very much. They are read by peo-
pie of all ages, and are almost all histor-
ical. Walter Scott has made large
fortune by his novels"
"She has made the greatest match that
any woman ever made, and l suppose
now that people will see that Mrs. Cation
was right in starving herself to keep her
daughters in Europe. The Marquis of
Wellesley is Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
He married an Italian singer, by whom
he had family Of children. She is
dead. He has no fortune; he is over
head and ears in debt. The Cations, I
suppose, will be enchanted at the match,
and with reason, too, for it gives them a
rank in Europe; and with Mr.. CarrolIs
money to keep it up, they may be consid-
cred the most fortunate in the United
States of America. can only say, if
Jerome were a girl, and had made such
match, I am convinced that l should
have died with JOY"
"Tn America there are no resources
except marriage; and as there was no one
there for me to marry, very naturally
sought to quit place where I was not
pleased"
81 am sure that backwardness has
been great disadvantage to myself"
"Mrs. Cation has set me a good exam
pie on the subject. She has, however,
been more fortunate in fixing her chill
dren than l can hope to be. I think they
are the most fortunate people have
ever heard or read of. Louisa has made
great match. He is very handsome.
not more than %, and will be duke,
with thirty thousand pounds year."
"After l had married the brother of an
Emperor, Ihad not the meanness of spirit
to descend from such an elevation to