Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-22
New York Graphic.

A curious story was whispered in court
circles last night, and is repeated again
this morning, perhaps with embelli hments.
1t relates 10 the sudden outburst of mo-
tion by the Princess Stephaule at be criti-
cal IN 5ment of her marriage We terday, and
gives as the expl.na'i ion of that sensational
incident a sto-y which sounds like
romance, but which, its REALTORS affirm, is
correct in every essential particular.
Briefly told, it is this:
The Princess had been carefully, per
haps too carefully, brou 9 bit up in secl sion
by her parents, and she WAS constantly
watched over with great solici ude She
very rarely saw anything of the wrd
outside Of her home. md her visit to Par s
with her father at the time of the late Ex-
position Was the rst and only occasion on
which she bad visited An. capita! save
Brussels But while at Paris, by an acct
dent or throu h tue mOmentary iEadver-
tencA If her father she met an American
gen lpman, She and her father were in
Paris incognitp and were living in a quiet
r'anner a q rot over pretenious hottl.
TIE American, ig GRANT of the real nau
and rank Of the young lady, but charmed
with he be,uty grace and simplicity, fell
quickly in love with her. SEEING an ops
portuuity one hf, eTnOOn when the Princess
was for mamf mt separated f ON her
father, who Was busiIy engaged in exami-
ming some ma hlnery and she was Sta ding
in an aCj iniAg alcOve. the American told
her VIII be WIS, expl4if ed In very w
words that he possessed wealth in ahua>
dance and an unsuIied name; told her
that he mired and loved her, and ash ed
her permission to speak to her f tber,
whom he presumed to be only n we'll to-do
manufacturer or merchant, and solicit from
HIM the privilege of pay ing to her his
addresses, and in hope of winning her
elections and making her his wife The
PrIncess, to whom all this WAS like dream
knew not what to reply. and seeing he
hesitat on, he American renewed his
Ptotestations and pres ID his suit with such
passion that the Prlncess, be oming
SiArmra' ana catching glimpse of her
fatner IN cl9tahe1, hastily ie to him. A
few fquirles on the part of th. A,nar;oa-
soon aiterward disclo ed to him who w.
the young lady; md Thu disclosure mi n
end to what b. pes h might have enter.
tanned. Upon the return Of the King and
Princess t. Belgium, he followed them.
without any intention OF thruSting himself
upon the young lady, bat that he might
occasionally have the qualification of seq
ing h0r ut distan when she appeared in
public. This qualification he did ceive
more frequently than he bad hoped, and
his passion deepened. The Princess wa:
unaware of his presence, and something
like Il romantic, alth nugh wholly hopeless,
affection sprang up between the two Ate
the announcement OF the betrOthal of the
Princess to Pri' CO Rudolph, the American
disappeared from Bru, sells, nj t, however.
without see. ng 'itephanie once more MS she
WAS driving with her mother through the
park in Brussels. But on her journey to
Vienna she saw his face at different stages
ofthe journey, and. acco ding to the story
As OLD by ole of the lades>in waiting, the
melancholy and despair manifested by
the handsome American afflicted her. She
saw him at Schonberg, an then imagined
that she should never againg see him.
But it appears be found his way INTO the
Church of Augustnes, occupied a place
near the left side of the alter. IL WAS nap
pening to raise her eyes in that direction
the Princess met his gaze that she broxe
out in the fl of hysterical weeping which
for some moments interrupted the cere-
mony. When, somewhat recovered, she