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Lady Blanche Murphy.
A EoNANCE OF EEAL LIFE.

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Lady Blanche Murphy uied NJ ,oh"ay,
n. H., Tuesday morning her ialher IS
Earl OF ealnsDorongh- Inc iainly name -
Noel, and Lady blanche as inc eldeSt ua'iSn-
ter bore the title oi Inc hlght Hohorapie
blanche Elizabeth Mary Anhuhciata Noel.
The estate of the Earl ot oalnsDorough IS ID
Rutlandshirc, England, where, AT ENton
Hall, Lady Blanche was born her sirihood
was devoted to travel ard stndN. She spent
some lime at school in Italy and France,
and learned TO sneak Italian. French, Ger
man and Spanish. She was familiar, too,
with Latin and had n fair knowledge of
Greek
The. Earl of t;ainsbor,ush. once "A Protes-
tant became a Roman Catholic and at his
seat. Extnn Hall. he has a private chapel
where services are held each day 1t was
nearly fifteen years ago that a Young Irish
man. Thomas T. Murphy, was engaged as
orranist in this chapel. With him Lady
Blanche fell in love, and runaway mar
riare followed
Within one wear they left England and
came TO New York. Lady Blanche was still
proud and brave. hut her irrcsolu,e and easi-
iy discouraged husband had nothing to do
and bread was scarce Then Lady Blanche
hecan to write magazine articles. Her edu-
Gallon had been generous, and her gift with
pcn was marked. She wrote cleyerly and
well. and had no trouble in selling all that
she had to offer
Their last change WAS la North Conway,
\. IL. whcr. they were both engaged To
teach in the kearsarge Academy At the
time of her death Lady blanche was not
much over p wears of agc. She has had no
children.
The earl,lom of Gainshorough belongs to
the proudest aristocncy in the kingdom of
Great Britain. Noel, the founder of tho
family, with Celestria, his wife, was one of
the mobiles who entered England with the
Conuncror. who granted him immense estates
for his services and many of his descend
ants were men of great note and magniii-
cence The family were raised 10 the earl
dom in 1852 but it is within a century that
the title passed to the present branch of the
family, whose living representative is there
fore known as the second Earl of Gainsbor-
oueh.
The Earls ancient motto "7om bieA on
ren," which. though not easily put into
English, may be translated "All well or
nothing" and this motto has IN application
to one living member of the family which
probably was never dreamed of in any pre-
yious generation Of its existence. Ii was not
..all well" in the sight of Lady Blanche S
father when she decamped from Exton Hail.
| where she was born, to marry Mr.. Murphy,
and so she has since been TO him us moth
ing"
This marriage of mesallancc Of the eldest
daughter of so great house was, of course,
a surprise and a horror to her father, then Ill
his 52d wear. 1t occurred under circum-
! stances which added grief 10 humiliation
| The Earl, who is Roman Catholic, has II
! private chanel at Exton Hall in which divine
| worsbip ~ celebrated daily. and some seven
years ago he engaged young Irish musician
named Murphy as organist As member of
The family Lady Blanche sang in the service
to the organ accompaniment, and thus be-
came familiar with the organist under pleas.
ant circumstances She was in her 2lst
year intellectual and handsome, though un-
assuming and petite. while he was Il modest
Young Irishman of about the same age.
At Inst. upon a time, one of the Earl's rel
atiyes who happcpcd TO be visiting Exton
Hall asked him if he were not surprised that
his daughter should spend 50 many hours
every day with the orranist in the chapel
after the close of services. The Earl was
asionished that such a question should be
| .sked ahout his ,iau ,htcr's musical practice ;
and when the obscryant relative was about to
90 "A step further in his inuniries, the Ear
forestalled his hint by laughing a, the thought
of such an idea.
II waa however an The very nisht nftcI
| this suogestiva innuiry that Lady Blanche
| anJ Tho org.pist took I'm their fight together
I from Eyton Hall II would he imposslblt
IN toll how the Lsughiv Earl WAS over
whelmed nj his daughters dlsappearance
and at Tho Jisrracr thn, had hern brought
mon his bnusr hv her elonement Whcr
She semi linn word soon aftcrward from
Inndon ,hot che had been there marie,
tn her Nurnbv The Earl in his wratl
n,soyned her f1rh,Fe hcr r,t,rp 10 the an
ccs,raI bolls .nd cut her off from all In,
ho,;tog. of ,he family Lady Rlancbe Ia,
Of con,s,. tun,yn th,t il would br imnossibl,
g.. 80 So, sn1h an n,l;ance with hc
,.ra,,o oons.,,, ar e., ,,on,;nn such :, auhie,.
i';r ,,ro.a,,,,. ,hnunh hcr ,fY.ctinr W,
,rna ~ a'' r,r,. and manly hn, Che h,J nroh
iJ,, ,,..,,..r ;n,o,,,no,,,hai erch , s,r,n ncu,l
,v won,d ~. Visited mon her for marry
H., am, nf h.r r,nL
sdy Kl,nch,. was ma, , silly cirl ipnor
am, nf ,h. ,,nrId a, his time She xns =
'..srs Of a,,.. Che hoJ COO, 4, ,,rcs, ,Ie.l a
III, M, ol,. LnI L,cn two s.,eor. in Lon
Jnn snc;,t, sh,. was a devn,,r nf art nm
I;,er,,nr, sh, was !, woman of h.bly culti
waited intellect and brilliant talents
nr- anu ',s, hiunI"y Wy ~" -,
Ii '"' IN '" o,, or v;,I,;,, n,
ara, IT, III n,,r,,a,r they arrive
in M Nj ,yh.,e ,Lcy ,,,,,;, f,li ,b, rrc,
snr, If s,ra;,cr.J ,.;rc,nns,anrrs and She q,
ncciJlv found out the transformation tha
takes plncc when an Earl's daughter become
apoor mans wife. But if Love laughs II