Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-04-12
A ROYAL ROMANCE.
"All for Love, or the World Well
Lost"


Smiths" but takes an especial delight
in girding at the old-world prejudice
of heralds, court marshals and ancient
dowagers, TO whom the mere idea OF
an admixture of the blood royal with
the "ignominious puddle" stagnating
in plebeian veins is as a "rock of
scandal and stone of offense." The
blind god is ruthless iconoclast, an
inveterate remover of social land
marks, jealous deity, sternly intol-
Grant of any worship save his own.
He plays the mischief with class dis
tinctions, casting his whimsical spells
alike over the exalted and the lowly,
in such sort that their life-destinies
are indissolubly fused by the glow of
mutual passion. Prince and peasant
are submissive to his sway; peer and
proletary obey his impulsive DEGREES,
which breathe fierce defiance of prec-
edent and anoble scorn of worldly con-
siderations.
How irresistible is the might of Eros,
when he deigns to put it forth with
divine strenuousness, may be gathered
from the "Royal Romance" lately re-
counted by our Vienna correspondent
The disclosure of this modern version
of "All for Love, or the World Well
Lost" of which princely renunciant
of mundane dignities is the hero, and
a hospital nurse the heroine, has, we
are assured, excited much livelier in
terest in continental court circles than
the alternating probabilities of peace
and war which have exercised the
minds of European statesmen and
tinanciers for several weeks past.
In these prosaic days of ours, when
the marriage de convenience" is no
longer an institution peculiar to the
noble and wealthy, its practical advan-
tages over the marriage de ceur"
having been largely recognized by the
industrial and trading classes, it is in
deed, refreshing, from the sentimental
point of view, to see one born in the
purple chivalrously running counter
to the most venerable and deeply
rooted traditions of royalty, and un-
hesitatingly sacrificing titles, emolu-
ments and privileges of high birth in
order to gain his hearts desire. Not
less satisfactory to all these kindly
souls that sympathize with the trials
and sorrows of Cupid's votaries, and
grieve over the cruel axiom that "the
course of true love never did run
smooth" is the circumstance that, in
this strange story of Prince Oscar Of
Sweden and Miss Munck, the sternness
of parental authority has yielded to the
fervor and constancy of mutual at.
tachment.
Another pleasant feature of the tale
is the generous disinterestedness dis
played by both its principal parsonage:
the royal youth, eager to resign his
prerogatives for "a pair of black
eyes," the untitled maiden, reluctant
to injure the temporal interests of tn,
object of her affections. and ready t.
devote the remainder of her days to al
obscure but useful calling, foregoing
happiness for her loved ones sake
Old and young alike will rejoice tha
SO pretty romance, teeming witt
tenderness and grace, free from sci
fishness and guile. and perfectly cred
liable to all its characters, should b.
destined to wind up happily, and tha
the curtain should fall upon this touch
ing lovc-drama to the merry sound o
pealing marriage bells.
"Onee upon time Not long ago
however-the granddaughter of
mighty monarch, herself welded t
the heir apparent of regal throne
numbered among her maids youn,
lady of bourgeois extraction and dow
erless, but renowned for her rar
beauty. graceful bearing and fascina,
ing charm of manner. This highl
attractive "demoiselle d'honneur
was an orphan. and her decease
father. Colonel Munck, of the Swedis
army, had left her no other inherit
ance than a spotless name, borne b
a long line of gallant soldiers. An,
ious to establish her in life, her friend
persuaded her to accept an offer {
marriage rendered to her by wealth
cavalry officer. and her wedding ds
had been fixed. when she discovere
that her fiance's affections had bee
bestowed upon another; whereupo
she forthwith broke off her engag'
ment
shortly afterwards while Mi
Munck was still suffering from the d
pression of spirits consequent upc
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