The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-08

ion upon the astonished young lady. Not only
was she expected to pay for the jewels lavished
upon her in prodigal profusion, but the caterers
and florists accounts for innumerable enter
tainments were also presented to her for liqui-
dation. The first thing which appears to have
causd any apprehensions as to the disinterested
devotion of the Duke was his action in seeking
to borrow a large sum of money from Miss
Grants mother on the eve of an entertainment
at Nice. Miss Grant then returned to this
country, and it was scarcely more than year
thereafter that the Duke, falling heir to large
fortune, Immediately married au English girl.
HOW ANOTHER NoBIEMAN LOST WIFE.
Another young lady, the daughter of
Western Senator, has for the last half dozen
years enjoyed the international distinction of
beauty, the verdict of her countrymen in this
respect having been confirmed by the Prince of
Wales upon the occasions of her many visits to
England. In addition to this fact there is
decided romance in the life of the young
Westerner, who since early childhood has made
her home in Washington. Having made sue
cessful debut in London, Miss Blank during
her first season met the Duke de Rouchfoucauld,
to whom she become engaged after a brief
courtship. All went merry as the proverbial
marriage bell, the trosseau was ordered, and
the marriage as event of the near future
lacked only the parental blessing in the form of
papers necessary for the settlement of the dot.
This demand, however, the Senator did not
care to meet, and Notwithstanding every effort
to the contrary on the part OF the parents, the
engagement was broken. Miss Blank then re-
turned home and the Duke sought diversion in
Algerian travel. Within the past two years
the Duke de Rouchfoucauld has married.
MISS AUDENRIED AND THE NuNNERY.
Miss Florence Audenried, daughter Of the
late General Audenried, of the Army who
within the past few months has married count
though one of the youngest of Washington
beauties has already had an unusually eventful
life replete with romance and adventure In
the height of a successful season, surrounded by
admirers, Miss Audenried suddenly became
stated with the gay world of fashion, and, decid-
Ing upon q venture of religious enthusiasm,
without warning abjured the Episcopal faith,
to become an ardent devotee of the Church of
Rome. Hardly had society recovered from this
sudden announcement before it was startled by
the intelligence of still more unaccounta BILE
move on the part of the young debutante. Re-
nouncing the world the flesh, and the devil,
Miss Audenried under cover of night hed her
to a convent, leaving behind as the sole clue to
her action the timehonored note ON the pin
cushion. In vain Mrs. Audenred wrote and
1mplOreu ner daughter 10 come nome. In vain
she applied for help to the Mother Superior Of
the convent, from both alike came the same
answer, namely, that the young girl having
entered of her own accord, and processing de-
sire to remain, she was not to be coerced into
leaving those walls within which she had sought
shelter. Then it was that her mother decided
upon an equally bold plan of action, and, ac-
companied by the family lawyer, proceeded
direct to Cardinal McCloskey in New York,
formally demanded that her daughteras minor
should be at once delivered to her guardianship.
At first it began to look as though the Church
and State would enter into open conflict over
the matter, which was, however, after after few
days. successfully compromised, there being
considerable money at stake, and the mother
departed happy once more in the possession OF
her daughter. A romantic attachment next en-
gagged the young beauty's attention, and upon
its termination season OF European travel was
decided upon. Miss Audenreid appears to have
found more than the usual amount of favor In
the eyes of His Royal Highness, for cablegrams
received by the leading American journals
shortly thereafter chronicled accounts of fete
given at one OF the fashionable suburbs of
London, at which the Prince Of Wales trundled