The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-19
The Loves of Lille Langtry.

New York Citizen.
The failure of Mrs. Langtry in Lon
don will carry her quickly back here,
where she has just been purchasing a
home en- Thirteenth street. The story
Of her life's loves has never been
truly told. When she came, a beau
tiful young bride, to London it was
her fortune to sit for an artist to
whose studio Prince Leopold was a
constant visitor, He met her; was
struck with her if not at first striking
yet peculiarly classic beauty, which
grows on you the more you look, and
presented her to his brother, the Prince
of Wales, who was fascinated from
the first. 1t Is the custom in
society in London when the
aprince accepts an invitation to send
him card and ask him to affiX the
names of any he might desire to meet
him. Mrs. Langtry's was always af-
fixed. She became the vogue. She
was for the time the dream Of the poet
and the painter. The Duke of Suther-
land said when here that one night at
a great ball at Stafford House, as she
entered and walked down the hall
alone, simply dressed in white, there
gaze on her superb loneliness. And
so her loves current ran smoothly
along until one of those fancies which
will come to women raE in to break
it. She had met III society Sir George
Chetwynd, loved him, as Camille says,
and felt he loved her. There are many
VINO may remember the story of how
the beautiful Lady Florence Paget,
on the morning Of her intended
wedding with the wealthy MIR. Henry
Chaplin, queitly at an early hour got
into her brougham, drove to seclud.
ed church, and there met and mar
ried the young Marquis of Hastings.
On his death she became the wife of
Chetwynd. She was seized while still
young with paralysis. She took to
religion when she lost the power to
sin, and went through course of
ritualistic curates. Her husband, lett
the power of SHINING, continued 20 sin,
and found that happiness, fled from
curates, Langtry, "dweIt with thee"
Society could not forgive in baronet
what it had pardoned in prince,
threw up its hands and eyes. Mrs.
Langtry found no more her accus
toned place on the princes
ticket, and quietly retired. The
place of her retirement (near
Twickenham) was not far from
Mr.. Labouchere'S villa OF st. Annes.
His gentle heart was touched by her
woman sorrow. He advised her to
seek solace on the stage. the tOrlorn
hope of the afflicted female, and set
his wife-a Well-trained actress, Hen
rietta Hodgson-to coach her. The
result she came here and was seen
and conquered. The admiring gaze Of
Nh. Frederick Gerhard fell on and
followed her. But accustomed to
such admiration, she merely regarded
his as but one more scalp on her we'll
belt. Sir George Chetwynd
had agreed to follow her and accom-
pany her round the states; and had
actually taken his room on board the
Bothnia, and gone as far as Liverpool
with the just deceased Earl of Ayles-
ford, his companion to be, when so
many messages and so many apparent
proofs of her taithlessness came
crowding on him, that he returned
home. Lord Aylesford left
alone. Mr.. Gerhard, who had,
with an assertion of heroic self-sacri-
fee at the shrine of public feeling,
left her at St. Louis, really to be cut
of the way when Chetwynd came,
when Chetwynd did not come, re-
turned to her side and has remained
there. Indifference has grown into
love. She is about to seek divorce,
and they will probably be married in
the autumn. They are both wealthy.
She is beautiful and very amiable,
agreeable and gentle. He is a fine
young fellow, and whatever other
faults he may carry, has behaved in
this instance, to use the vulgar YER
nacuIar, "like a brick" So, as Claude
Melnotte prayed, may all good an
gels. ETC., etc"