Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-10
MARRIED AND PARTED.

"A, ems soU III LIS appointed Ways.
MARRIED AND PARTED.
VI wonde. why she never married.
Clio is a beautiful woman still. What
p 5ns. she have been when she was
rorr9 That chestnut hair of hers is
s than tipged with gray, but the
h l ewes are still bright and beautiful.
o.I tLut pretty color Of hers still comes
snl Q e. ike girls. Ard how we'll
enc dresses! There's poetry and grace
:; in everv movement. Ii didn't know
che was an actress. should take her
ny some great lady she walks like one,
,be talks like one, and she looks like
And YOU wouldn't be SC very far out,
N;bbs, after all.
Thus said Sir John Protocol, X. G.
formerly of the diplomatic service,
10 Nibbs, the hack writer. Both of
them we're elderly men; they had been
scbooliellows, and Nibbs had married
Sir Johns sister when that gentleman
mas boy at Eaton, and, being brothers.
En.law and having known each other all
heir lives, strange to say, they were
hill friends and cronies.
ON said Mr.. Nibbs, she's woman
NTH history, then?" and the old mans
ives began to sparkle till he looked like
d;ssipated vulture. you'll have to
ell the story, Jack, my boy. You
ouldn't have better place to tell it in
han this" said Mr.. Nibbs, with smile
the ceiling of the smoking room of
be Sarcophagus club.
well, ii you want it, said Sir John,
Isuppose you must have it. 1t was
pnmon property thirty years ago. 1t
as i'll 1856 that I first saw her-the
ear after the prince imperial was born,
ll Napoleon was at the zenith OF his
over. We all went to the Odeon from
striotic motives, for there was an Eng
III debutante who was about to make
ar first appearance that night, and
agsley, the chancellor, had told us
lat she was desperately good looking.
yname was Sylvia Seton then, and
rs Sylvia Seton now. It's wonder
thing, isn't it, Nibbs, that she ant
FED? ?" And then Sir John chuckle:
Ts'd none of US seen her. When I
1--WE, [ mean the fellows at the en-
Ey, from the second secretary down
me- and was junior unpaid attache
the time She came into the chan
ENeEie. said Pugsley, herself and she
1t dozen programs of her debut with
e. That slip of girl walked into the
ice as though she were queen. And
she was, he added, in the matter of
Fautv. And then he began to rave
9out her eyes, and her hair, and her
Tile pouting lips that were ruddier
az the cherry, and the two little
nples that came into her cheeks when
Fe smiled. And she is as good as
Pld you know, said Pugsley, for she
ore darned gloves, and when q girl
EARS darned gloves you may swear
at she's as good as gold.
We all went to the Odeon, partly
pm patriotic motives, because Sylvia
Pton was an English girl, but prin-
Ea!y on account of the enthusiasm of
pgsley, who was Judge of beauty,
ID We We're all amateurs of that arti-
IN those days." said Sir John Pro-
FOL with sigh. II can't for the
eoi me remember the piece" he con-
Pued, but it was something pastoral,
eaca!, and pretty; the debutante was
armlng, sir-she was dream of love-
less, was Sylvia Seton;and the little
g!lsh girl scored in the great,
omy house That they call the second
estre Francais; and she signed six
,l'l rs engagement that very night
4 ;botlbol, the manager OF the Porte
'lastln. But she never played at
re st. Martin. and the next thing
Ieard OF Sylvia Seton was that she
married the Prince of Roxanblox-
ets. Now the Prince of Roxanblox-
e!s was serene highness, and when
laSAer died he, being the eldest
would become a grand transpa-
" reigning monarch, and an
'l n OF the German Empire. But
fflnce Of Roxanbloxanfe]s was a
,e-an ill-mannered, boorish oaf,
Il he had ever had any mind at
Aaa had it drilled out Of him. He
Dig mana sort OF q tailor's lay
Nc OF man. He was perfectly
e s in the society of respectable
I I'll and and he was engaged to be mar
o ~ me only daughter of the Prince
u'e55tenburg. He was fair man,
.;sold, cruel, blue eyes and re-
Jug chin, and If anybody in Par
y society at that time had been
i TO name the most disappated
~. IN the French capital he would
W. Naoledly have selected Conrad,
re- Of Roxanbloxanfels.
.I ". way that fellow persecuted
sa ''.'le Sylvia Seton was monstrous.
d, l"' Aer bouquets, he sent her dia-
s,. ont his diamonds came back,
/ 0G;etS night he used to turn up at
1 tS to glore like hungry tiger
, t4e Charming little English in-
h. Sylvia Seton wouldn't have
Ing to do with the Prince. Then
n rcs 70 abduct her, and of course
!, 81 !, was hushed up-equally Of
,, yb1 ll got into all the papers, and
= s ~ Wy knew perfectly we'll who
~, y; was, ard how Mile. T., as
lIG ;e poor little Sylvia, had
~, AZ, r ears in Indignation.
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