Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-11-20
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2nndon World.
Mr. Montagu Rssenthal was very
good looking man, and held her majes-
3y's commission In a Lancer regiment
I'm addition to these social advantages
his father, old Maurice Rosenthal, erst.
while of Frankfort, and now of Mincing
Lane and Piccadilly, was fabulously
Kich man, who not only lent loans to
foreign states, but had been known to
iafuence the course of a European wal
by the timely aid of his millions. No
body knew exactly how rich he was, but
Gif may be surmised that he was about
4one-half as wealthy as people said.
Montague was the only child of the
old financier, and when he left Elton he
WIS sent to Sandhurst, entered crack
cavalry regiment and "whent" the pace
like any OF his Christian comrades in
: arms. Not that he ever made fool of
himself in quite the same way in which
sahase high spirited and reckless young
71srriors were wont to do. No, Monty
Rosetha was essentially a cautious
yoUng man. You could not catch him
Nznswares, try how you would, and bis
Hath Or often lamented that so much as
4uteness should be wasted on the trivial
ties of a soldiers ordinary life. To the
women of his own class he was the most
devoted and assiduous of cavaliers. He
prided himself on his charming manners,
zand would take infinite pains t. please
ssny one he met, from an elderly dowag-
sr on rout-seat to the youngest sub
WHO made his first appearance in the
'mess-.oom. Like many young men of
his race, he preferred to associate with
Christians rather than with Jews. New
artbeless, he had been carefully brought
mp in the faith of his Frankfort fore
fathers, though this WIS a fact which
was not known in society-indeed, reli-
agion was topic which. he had never been
heard to mention. If he had a little
weakness, it lay in hankering after the
society of the English aristocracy; and
Monty, who was an ambitious young
man, mad resolved in year or two to
asnter Parliament, and see if his money
would not ultimately procure him seat
'sraong our hereditary Legislators. Mean
while, he was assiduous in his attentions
TO those ladies of the great world with
whom he had succeeded in making &C.
4uaintance, chief among whom was the
Duchess of Null.
Now, several reasons combined to
make the Duchess of Null extremely d.
lite to Mr.. Montagu Rosenthal. She
was sensible woman, and swan with
The tide. No fewer than eight daugh-
sers graced the house of Null, and of
this octave not one had yet found suit
able husband. As one can see in the
Peerage, some of the Ladies Macnab were
no longer in their teens; Lady Dulci-
bella was thirty-two, Lady Georgiana
was thirty, Lady Victoria was twenty
nine, and their five sisters ranged from
twenty seven downward. The Duchess
Sss perfectly aware that seven of her
daughters could not, with the widest
stretch OF imagination, be called beauti
suL The lady Victoria was the sole ex-
,eption, and had she not been the daugh-
ser of q ducal house, it is possible that
sven her claims to fascination might
nave been over looked. How, with their
angular figures, high cheek bones, and
SANDY hair, could the Ladies Macnab
luost dowerless as they were, hope to
make match in their own rank, espec-
ally with the present strong American
in the marriage market?
SIT is useless to contend against the
ashton of the day." said the Duchess,
4 her confidential moods; ''all the eldest
ORs Of peers are nipped by the beauties
rom New York or heiresses from Chica-
.. As the duke, he is so completely
trapped up in the scientific articles
rhich he writes for the BIZ Monthly Re-
tesp, that he never seems to notice ,
Thether the girls are establishing them ,
alves or not.
SO although the young Jew was rath-
a. bitter pill to swallow, the duchess,
no saw that he admired Lady Victoria,
,nored her private and hereditary pref.
dices, and made the,syoung lancer well
,me in the family mansion in Grosven-
{ Square. And when Mrs. Roeenthal 3
ave ball in Piccadilly, her grace not :
aly took three Of her daughters, but i,
aged a couple Of hours, aud was even /.
leased to say that the flowers were .
vely.
/
The ball was arranged on a princely 2
ale, and Lady Victoria, for her part, en-. b
yed herself as much as it was possible il
T such aphlegmatic young woman to do. g
he was girl with only one idea, and "
at was summed up, in the word ''ten- Fl