The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-03
ROMANCE OF MARRIAGE.
Great Men Who Hated or Loved Their
Wives.
From the Montreal Gazette.

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married life may also have an element OF
practical wisdom il a world in which mat
rinonial mi takes ara 50 common, and so
commonly disastrous. Every one can reel
fl a list of famous mel who have notori-
ously been unhappy In domestic life.
Among the MARI ed who secured happiness
we ind at least few men of the first rank.
Dr. Arnold leads the list, and the picture OF
him is one sc are all more or less familiar
with from the writings Of Dean Stanley.
l. I'd Beaconsield did not place nis per-
sonal happiness in love and domestic joys.
He va, poor and his wife made him rich;
he was ambitious of politics ami his wife
opened the door to success; he was ambl-
tious of success in his career, aud his wife
sympa hiZei keenly with him, and at least
did not ha nper him. He was grateful, he
was faithful he was kind, he was every
thing that gentleman ought to be IN sucl
a case to n woman who really loved him;
but perhaps his condition of mind was not,
after all, happiness. Writing to his sister
in 1889 he said: LAS for love all my
friends who married for love and beauty
are either beating their wives or living
apart from them. This is literally
the case. l may commit many follies
in life, but l never intend to marry for love,
which am sure is guarantee OF infellclty.
He was not favorabiy impressed by Mrs.
was introduced, by particular desire, to Mrs.
Wyndham Lewis, pretty little woman,
firt and a rattle; indsed. gif ed with a
volubility | should think unequaled and of
which l can convey no idea. She told me
she liked silent, melancholy men! | an
swered that 4 had no doubt of it, Yet
he was to marry her, and to find in her
society life of success and of high con-
tent, at least. On April 10. 1867,
when he defeated Mr.. Gladstone's
amendment to the reform bill,
the younger members of the party ex-
temporized a supper at the Carlton and
begged of him to join them But, as Lady
Beaconsfield was never tired of repeating
"Dizz came home to me.n And she would
add how he ate half the raised pie and
drank the whole of the bottle of champagne
which she had prepared in anticipation of
his triumph. She was truly proud OF him,
and he was fond of telling her in joke that
he had married her for her money, TO which
she would reply: "Ah, but if you had to do it
over again you would d. it for love"-a
statement to which he always smlllingly as
sented. Indeed he never lost an opportunity
of eulogizing his wife in public, and one &C.
caSiOn at q harvest home at Hughenden he
sp Ike of her as ''ths best wife in England"
In dealing with the romance OF marriage
it was impossible, of course. to omit the
story Of Lady Sarah LennoX and George
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own way, he would have made Lady Sarah
his queel. He used to ride past the house
in which she lived every day, and during
the harvest Lady Sarah was OFTEN to BIO
seen making hay on the lawn in a bewltch-
ing costume. When the king finally mar
ried the German princess, Lady Sarah was
one of the bridemainds. On this occasion
an old nobleman, who had not been to court
since the accession of the House of Han1v
paid his respects to the king. He was very
old and almost blind, but struck
by the beauty of Lady Sarah, and
installing her for the queen, he pumped
down on his honest old Jacobite knees to
kiss her handl Lady Sarah, very much
confused, babe him rise, saying, II am not
the queen, sir" George SeIwyn said of the
old nobleman; He was always partial to
pretenders," slap at Lady Sarah which
deserved revenge.
Two of the remarkable men of the last
century were unfortunate in their love
affairs. Gen. Wolfe was rejected in his
| first love affair, and, as every one knows,
| he was killed before he married Miss Low
Their, to whom he was engaged, and who
subsequently married some one else
| Lord CORVALLIS made q love-match, but
| his wife was 50 much attached to him and
so grief-stricken at his absence during such
| long periods that she fell into jaundice
and died few weeks after her husband had
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| see her. She directed that thorn tree
should be planted over her grave, and that
| her name should not be craven on the
| headstone. 1t was after her death that
Lord CORVALLIS returned to service in
| America, the end of which was also, for
him. melancholy enough.
We READ with good deal of amusement
| of the romantic and y ssionate attachment
of young Grote, afterward the historian of
! Greece, for Harriet levin who is described
in his letters as being, of course, very lovely;
| but who, IN after DAYS at least. was eccen-
trio, strong featured and masculine.
| Among the runaway matches mentioned
is that of Henry Fox, the first Lord Holland.
! He fell in love with Lady Charlotte Lennox,
and, being refused by the family, ran away
with the lady. Bur his subsequent career
fully justified the rashness of his action; for
| he certainly showed that he knew how to
make money and TO keep it, till Charles Fox.
his son, cultivated in him the faculty of
giving 1t away. John Scott, afterward Lord
Eldon, also ran away with his wife at
| very early age. The window from which
Bessie Surtees descended into her lovers
arms is still pointed out to every visitor to
| Newcast }e as he pauses before the old puse-
| the home of the wealthy banker, her father,
IL Sandhill. not 800 yards from the great
suspension bridge which spans the Tyne "
In his old age Lord Eldon used tell how
J plUeOuS was Guelf COLNllblOD. OQ UQ6 t0lr0
| morning after the union our funds were
| exhausted; we had not home to go to, and
we knew not whether our friends would
ever speak to us again" One of his earliest
| legal experiences was reading, as substi
tute, the Vineriau law lecture. ~ began"
he says, without knowing a single word
that was III 1t. It was upon the statute of
young men running away with meidens. ,
| Fancy me reading Nth a.out l41 BOYS ana
young men all glggling at the professor
Such a titteriug audience no one ever had. :"
The scanty means the Young people had
one unpleasant effect. They developed in
the pretty young bride habits of thrift
which hardened into extreme parsinony.
She was also very averse to society, for the
runaway marriage made her delicately
sensitive about society i'll the beginning,
and at last 1t became dist4steful to her.
Curiously enough, their eldest daughte:
married without the consent Of her parents
The story of Southey's love and marriage
can never be absent from such a compile
ton of this sort. No man ever had less
right to get married than Soutaey. He had
no money, no profession, no reputation, no
place in the world and, more than this. be
was dependent on his friend Cottle, who had
been supplying him with money Cottle had
to supply him even with the ring and the
money for The wedding After that BEGIN
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