Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-03-13
A LANGUID LOED.
"Gumbnil' in Sew Torlt-Ho Miss Tortes-
cues Love Letters Were identiird-
The Lord u 'Masher' ur the
English Type.

Hiolrv Ial in Brooklyn Elgcl
Lord Garmoyle, who is now floating
about town with an air of melancholy
languor, has the face of II poet. the legs of
u dude, and the manners of "a much bored
md sought after nobleman. When say
that his face is poetic, mean that he has
high forehead big eyes and mcan-
choly droop Of the mouth, which accord
with the traditional ideas OF what a poets
face should be like. There is a suspicious
caving at the back Of his lordships head,
and his long legs are indubitab.y weak.
AS he dresses in the very height of dudish
fashion, his appearance invariably at
tracts attention He stands at least six
feet two inches in height, and is as thin
man as one would care to see. Miss For
tescue to whom his father paid $40, 900
in London short time ago on condition
that she would release the prccocious
young lord from his engagement to marry
her, is also lean and lark. The whole
world was interested in the suit for time
and then it suddenly dropped out Of sight
ON payment of the damages, only TO be
recalled by the presence OF the young Lo-
thario here.
The most amusing feature of the whole
trial, and one which | believe has not re
ccived much publicity, was the beautiful
rounded periods which Miss r ortescue,
whose real name was Finncy, wrote to
the lover, who was popularity known as
Gumboil. 1t was discovered, after the
trial was all over and the money paid over
10 the mercenary plaintiff. that every one
of these letters was copied from an old
paper covered book, which iourished in
England several years ago under the title
How to Write Love Letters This lit
tie book was sold for pence at the news
stands when it first came out, but it had
grown rare at the date of the beginning
of the trial, and the source of the beautiful
letters which Miss Finncy wrote to Cum.
boil remained Il mystery until a newspaper
man, who was rummaging among the
books at an old London shop, suddenly
found a number of sentences on one of the
pages which struck him as being familiar.
lie bought the book, compared ii with the
Finney letters and the result was a com
pletc identification.
Gumboil is painting the town red after
solemn and heavy fashion. He wandcrs
about from one play house to another of
an evening, dimes at the brunswick or
Demonicos, where he often holds his
knife AID fork poised in the air for some
minutes while he StareS at some beautiful
woman who catches his attention. lie is
not great man in his own country by
any means, and the woman Kinney, when
she was here as chorus girl at the Stand
ard theatre, earning the magnificent sti-
pend of SD Ter week, attracted attention
only by reason of her stiffness angularity
and stupidity on the stage. He, too, was
thin and tall, and | imagint the love
making between her and his imperial
nibs Gumboil, must have been rather a
lank affair. An English gentleman who
knew Garmoyle slightly in London and
who is a man of wide acquaintance in
every great city on the globe, said night
or two ago up town, Lord Garmoyle be
longs to u class of men in London who