Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-07-25
MARRIED AND PARTED.

MARRIED AND PARTED.
II wonder why she never married.
She is a beautiful woman still. What
must she have been when she was
young? That chestnut hair of hers is
more than tinged with gray, but the
blue eyes are still bright and beautiful,
and that pretty color of hers still comes
snd goes like girls. And how well
she dresses! There's poetry and grace
in every movement. If I didn't know
she was an actress, I should take her
for some great lady ;she walks like one,
she talks like one, and she looks like
one"
"And you wouldn't be SC very far c.,
Nibbs, after ALL"
Thus said Sir John Protocol, Z. C.
B.. formerly of the diplomatic service,
to Nibbs, the hack writer. Both of
them were elderly men; they had been
schoolfellows, and Nibbs had married
Sir Johns sister when that gentleman
was boy at Eaton, and, being brothers
in-law and having known each other all
their lives, strange to say, they were
still friends and cronies.
~Oh." said Mr.. Nibbs, she's a woman
with history, then ?" and the old mans
eyes began to sparkle till he looked like
. dissipated vulture. you'll have to
tell the. story, Jack, my boy. You
couldn't have better place to tell it in
than this" said Mr.. Nibbs, with smile
1t the ceiling of the smoking-room of
the Sarcophagus club.
@Well, if you want it." said Sir John,
Il suppose you must have it. It was
common property thirty years ago. It
was in 1856 that I first saw her-the
year after the prince imperial was born,
and Napoleon was at the zenith OF his
power. We all went to the Odeon from
patriotic motives, for there was an Eng
lish debutante who was about to make
her first appearance that night, and
Pugsley, the chancellor, had told us
that she was desperately good looking.
Her name was Sylvia Seton then, and
she's Sylvia Seton now. It's q wonder.
full thing, isn't it, Nibbs, that she ant
married?" And then Sir John chuckle:
wed none of US seen her. When I
say 'ye,' mean the fellows at the en-
bassy, from the second secretary down
to me, and I was junior unpaid attache
at the time. She came into the chan
cellerie.' said Pugsley. herself and she
left dozen programs of her debut with
me. That slip of girl walked into the
Office as though she were queen. And
so she was, he added, in the matter of
beauty And then he began to rave
about her eyes, and her hair, and her
little pouting lips that were ruddier
than the cherry, and the two little
dimples that came into her cheeks when
she smiled And she is as good as
gold. you know said Pugsley, for she
wore darned gloves, and when Q girl
wears darned gloves you may swear
that she's as good as gold.
"We all went to the Odeon, partly
from patriotic motives, because Sylvia
Seton was an English girl, but prin-
cipally on account of the enthusiasm of
Pugsley, who was Judge of beauty,
and we were all amateurs of that arti-
Gle in those days." said Sir John Pro-
tocol with sigh. II can't for the
life of me remember the piece" he con-
tinued, "but it was something pastoral,
poetical, and pretty; the debutante was
charming, sir-she was dream of love-
illness, was Sylvia Seton; and the little
English girl scored in the great,
gloomy house that they call the second
Theatre Francois; and she signed q sir
months engagement that very night
with Botibol, the manager of the Porte
ST. Martin. But she never played Of
Porte st. Martin. and the next thing
we heard of Sylvia Seton was that she
had married the Prince Of Roxanblox.
snfels. Now the Prince of Roxanblox-
anfels was q serene highnesa. and when
his father died he, being the eldest
son, would become . grand transpa-
rancy, . reigning monarch, and an
elector of the German Empire. But
the Prince of Roxanbloxanfels was q
brute-an ill-mannered, boorish oaf,
who, if he had ever had any mind at
oil, had had it drilled out of him. he
was Q big mana sort of Q tailoris lay
figure of q man. He was perfectly
m:serable in the society Of respectable
women, and he was engaged to be mar
ried to the only daughter of the Prince
Of Roulettenburg. He was fair man,
with cold. cruel. blue eyes and . re-
treating chin. and If anybody in Par
isian society ut that time had been
ssked 20 name the most disappated
man in the French capital he would
have selected Conrad,
Prince of Roxanbloxanfels.
~The way that fellow persecuted
poor little Sylvia Seton was monstrous.
BE sent her bouquets. he sent her dia-
monds, but his diamonds came back.
and every night he used to turn mp at
the Odeon to glore like hungry tiger
ct the charming little Engiish IN
genue. Sylvia Seton wouldn't have
anything to do with the Prince. Then
he tried to abduct her, and OF course
the matter was hushed up-equally o.
course it got into al the papers, and
everybody knew perfectly we'll who
Prince Z. Wa, and how Mile z. q
they called poor little Sylvia had