Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-22
LADY COLIN.

The long-drawn suit IF Lady Colin Camp.
bell, which has followed her application for
a divorce from her husband, Lord Colin
Campbell, has brought that lady promi.
nently before the public. Naturally much
interest is felt to learn her history and the
prominent traits OF her character. As the
trial is closed and the last arguments are
being heard in the case, the cause of this
most unfortunate exhibition OF marital
discord is pretty we'll know.
Lady Colin, according to the New York
Star, springs from an old and aristocratic
family which has flourished in the Green
Isle from the time when the English were
nothing more than a rival nation and the
O'Connors were kings. The pictures of the
lady that have appeared in the newspapers
are libels upon her delicacy and loneliness.
Her eyes are blush and bright, her teeth
like the ~ivorie," her cheeks 'like lilies
dipped in wine" and her figure so 1.-THE, so
exquisitely rounded, and her movements
80 graceful that one would take her for
Hebe fresh from an errand to the gods.
Though of Irish origin, she was sent to
Italy almost in infancy, and her earliest
words were in that
:. "Soft Latin
That melts like kisses from the female lipe."
She acquired the Italian power OF express
sion, the rapid mobilization Of counte-
nance, the marvellous music of voice. and
%conquering splendor of eye. This training
served her in good turn while in the witness
box. When the jury saw her troubled yet
gentle look, and those large. loving eyes
filled with 1.-THE helpless wrath of tears"
heard the voice and felt the subtle power of
that sweet vision, it is not surprising they
were strongly moved, and showed ''evident
sympathy with the witness.
She denied all. She had never been
disloyal to her marriage VOWS, though
for years she had borne in patience her
husbands c%ontumely and distrust,
had nursed him in his sickness and had
struggled hard to discharge her wifely |
duties in spite Of cruel charges and false in
situations, hoping against hope for relief
when no relief came, pining in solitude and |
sobbing in silence; and now, in spite of all, |
she finds herself the victim of ribald insults, |
arraigned like a criminal at the bar of pub.
lie opinion, the sport and byword of the
gossip and the inoffending target for the
sneer Of the cynic. As for the testimony of
what was seen through the keyhole, it was
false and cruel. As for DIR. Bird, he had |
only been a friend who pitied her condi-
ton. As for the Duke of Marlborough, she
had never thought of wrong with him; and
as for Captain Shaw, he was only asturdy |
and brave officer, who had been touched |
by her misfortune and interested by the
misery Of her lot.
There is no longer any question as to
where the sympathies of a gentleman
should be in the case. Whatever misgiv-
ings one may have derived from previous
testimony. the time has come to abandon
them. and w may exClaim in the language
OF the roaring whirlwind OF the west: "He
who hesitates is a bastard, and he who
doubts is damned" Lady Colin should
have all she asks for, and Colin should
seek the solitude due the man who would
wrong So faithful, so loving a wife.