Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-06-09
GEORGE ELIOT.

The recent marriage VI 'no s'oHs
authorizes, George Eliot" or Miss
Marian Evans. sixty years old. to Mr..
Cross, q young man OF thirty.eisht, has
created a decided sensation in the literary
world, the more especially as 1t trans
pirss that she lived for years with Mr..
Lewes without being married to him.
Why this relationship was assumed and
sustained through many years hash I sI-
PLANTATION, but was best understood BY the
parties themselves. That she was faith
full aud true a. life itself to her choice
and her love, and that they lived con-
Qenially together till divorced BY death.
In we'll known. According to her stand
ard Of right. a. well n his own. shs and
he evidently believed they were right.
and the world Of literature and genius
yielded tacit acknowledgment and scqui-
sscsncs. Her lost love idol il buried in
the grave. and the living. loving heart
still seeking congsnial companionship.
has found Q new mate and an honest
matrimonial combination, regardless OF
the worlds opinion Of the past. present
or future, 90 far a. abe or hers In con-
cerned. It 10 one Of the peculiar chap
tiers in the great book Of human life.
which all are allowed to read and inter
pref as they may deem best. The Gin
cinnati Commercial has the following on
the subject:
The marriage Of George Eliot has pro-
duced an effect which once might have
given Carlyle . new illustration OF his
theory that genius 10 necessarily uneon-
scious Of itself and its powers. Had size
been aware OF the niche she has long occu-
pied In the holy OF holies. the heart OF the
Young, the heroic. the dreamers; had she
known what 10 had cost these to raise her.
and 70 defend her; and how. having lived
down all the sneers Of society. she had be-
come Q person unique, ideal. dwelling
apart In the finest i~maginatious - one who
for love gave all. defed tho world. and
saved the sanctuary Of her heart; had she
known all this she could hardly have sub.
iected the world 10 this cruel d~isenchant-
ment without some motive powerful
enough TO be stated by her personal friends.
A score Of pathetic myths have Invested
her ever since Mr.. Lswes' death. 80 tre-
mendous . sacrifice ~ she apparently
made was explained by some - the main
tenance Of sociological principle, but Tor
the majority II measured the surprising
depth Of her love. On the very morning
Of her marriage any hundred OF her
devotees would have sworn that she was
sitting In her lonely study, gazing through
tears on the image OF him for whom abe
opposed the world. another mariana at
the moatsd grange" Any OF them would
have assured you that the great author was
70 DO yelled for the rest Of her life. to write
NO more, but only to edit her dead lovers
papers. Suddenly this imaginary George
Eliot falls TO the prosaic ground-A shat
tered idol Mr.. Cross, whom she has
married. 10 said to be about thirty-cighi
years OF age; George Eliot II about sixty
A few years ago he made the acquaintance
Of Mr.. Loves and Miss Evans. Their
pleasant country house. Whitley. was near
Wsybridgs. where Mr.. Cross resided. Mr.,
Gross 10 . city man. . sort OF banker. bui
not remarkable for wealth; he has . house
at Chelsea. where the pair will probably
reside, 90 that "The Priory" will be left a
the monument Of its rich associations.
II Mrs. Cross had startled u portion
Of the community by showing that she
had NO t~ranscendental theory about mar
rage, and so given cause for people 10
remember that the real Mrs. Loves 10 still
living. she has equally amazed another
part BY choosing to be married in . church
the most fashionable church, too. in
London-St. Georges, Hanover Square.
Here was the reputed High Priestess oil
Positivism. kneeling before Q clergyman,
and pronouncing after him that she will
live latter the Lords holy ordinance"
she who has not believed in any Deity but
Humanity for over twenty years. There
has indeed been Q good deal OF compliance
Of that kind In this country. The late
Professor Clifford. however. when he wal
almost compelled by family reasons to be
married in church. boldly deviated from
what the clergyman bade him to say and
said: "After mans holy ordinance" But
10 10 difficult TO imagine that any family
pressure could have been put on George
EllOt, anu VIC 10 not near tnht INC scrNiCo
WAS varied by or for her. There was .
report that she was married In the name
Of Loves. but that 10 not true; the sigma
ture Is Marian Evans. spinster." II is .
hard thing for her admirers to have their
idol come down from her pedestal and to
hear II said that the marriage in . fashion.
able church was meant to try and recover
conventional respsctability. Were this
the object she might have been better
advised. She can never gain from the
conventional what abe has lost among the
unconventional. 1t 10, however; difficult
to believe that George Eliot really carer
for what she has treated up to the age Of
sixty - social baubles.
Those who know Mr.. Gross say that he
10 Q handsome. attractive and intelligent
man. He 10 we'll and favorably known,
both in London and New York. a. . busi.
ness man. He has no p~rstsnsions to liter
airy or scholarly abilities. He has for
some time now attended 10 tho finances oil
the lady he has married. His friends,
equally with hers, appear to have been
taken BY surprise. The marriage wa
attended by the group who generally look
in whom . marriage 10 going on in st.
Georges Church. Immediately altar
wards the pair ven on q tour on the Con-
tinent, where they are expected 10 remain