The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-25

fond OF epitefulIy teasing ehcn otner rs Were
their predecessors. celebrated In the memoirs
| OF Count Grammont or as their successors In
Queen Charlotte's train: so what life poor
Jenny Warburton led among them. ever blum
| derinR. getting into scrapes and hurting out
| vulgar expressions, may easily be imagined"
| This was the situation OF Mrs. Jane Warbur-
| ton-respectable young ladies were not yet
! styled Misses-when John. Duke Of Argyll ar
| rived from the Continent with all his blushInR
| honors thick upon him and military reruta-
ton inferior to MarlborouRhs alone. Lady
| Mary wortley MontaRu used to say that women
| see men with their ears. The Duke might
have been 30 seen. but he had likewise every
thing to charm the eye personal beauty. an
| expressive oountenance, a commanding air
| and the most easy. engaging grncefulness OF
manner Under the circum stances II IL not
surprising that he should have been the chief
| subject OF conversation at q dinner which the
Duke OF Shrewsbury. Lord Chamb erlain OF the
Household. gave to the maids OF honor accord
Ing to the usage OF Queen Annes days upon
her birthday. The cloth being removed
and the ladies' toasts called for while
all the rest OF the young women named
Bishops and Generals. the men furthest
from their thoughts. honest Mrs. War
burton went straight to the man uppermost In
hers and toasted the Duke Of Argyll. Her col
leagues act up a shout OF laughter. "Ho! hol
He was her favorlte. was hep Truly she had
taken care not to choose too humbly; they
wished he did not know his valuable conquest;
no doubt.he would be amazingly nattered. per-
haps made rather too vain" Thus the rail-
lery. or. as We now term 1t. the Quizzing, went
on. until thevictm fell a-cryinR and the master
OF the house was forced to interpose to make
peace. At night. when everybody met again
at the ball. the Duke Of Shrewsbury said to
Argyll. who stood near him: My lord, you
little think what mischief you have &C.
casioned to-day. poor young lady has been
shedding bitter tears on your account"
Upon my ACCOUNT How SOP" shrows-
bury told him what had passed. oh.
poor thingW exclaimed he: 1T was very
hard upon her indeed. have great mind to
go and talk to her by way OF defending her
cause. Which is she? Introduce me-" There
upon the quizzers. to their astonishment. and.
as one OF them. Mrs. KinRdor. acknowledged.
to their no small modification. saw him de-
vote himself to Mrs. Jenny warburton for the
remainder OF the evening Possibly what they
threw out In scorn came nearer the truth than
they suspected. No man can help being fat
tered by the sincere voluntary preference Of
any young woman; and he might secretly i'm
agine that the impulse OF such preference had
thrown the innocent girl of her guard. Be
this as 1t might. one conversation gave birth
its grew frequent. till they took place daily,
and in a short time the duko's attachment to
Mrs. Jenny became notorious. and was as pas
sionate as extraordinary.
According TO Lady Louisa Stuart the wonder
OF this affair lay chiefly in the young woman's
want OF beauty. Mrs. Warburton's other def
ciencies we're not calculated to disgust man
OF very peculiar opinions. whose shining abili-
ties and loftiness OF mind did not prevent his
harboring the most illiberal contempt OF
women In Athens Of yore, we are told all vir-
gins and reputable matrons were nonentities,
shut up within four walls to pursue their do
mestio labors unheard OF and unseen, while
knowledge accomplishments, vivacity and
everything that can render society agreeable
belonged exclusively to the courtesans The
Duke OF Argyll thought this Just as II should
be- or. rather. as 1t necessarily must be- He
had been married very young to rich citizens
daughter. whom he detested the two parted
quickly. and the little acquaintance he could
be said to have had with women since had been
confined to the followers OF a camp: or II few
foreign ladies came in his way. he had learned
doubtless with reason. to hold them in very
hight esteem. In a word. he had come to
believe scarcely any woman truly yirtuous.
but held II certain that none could be 80 who
had the slightest share Of mental endov-
ments natural or acquired. 1t was plain to
him that Jenny Warburton was quite FREQ
from these impediments to chastity. yet. trust
Ing to the Inherent frailty OF the sex and the
liberty allowed a maid Of honor. he at first
concluded that che would fall an easy
prey; when. on the contrary, she proved i'm
pregnaole. not to he tempted by promises or
presents. or magnificent offers. nor yet to be
worked upon by all the arts and powers OF can
tivation which he could not but know that he
possessed. admiration succeeded surprise He
remained convinced that he had found pearl
OF price. the most virtuous woman, IL not
the only one. in the world: all the
while not doubling that the horoic re-
sistance cost her dear. and was the fruit
OF many painful struggle with secret love.
Here. according to Lady Louisa Stuart,
his own ardent imagination. aided by his
vanity. led him into trihng mistake. Virtu-
ons the good, simple soul really was. and from
principle steadily observed those plain pre-
cents which her limited capacity permitted her
TO comprehend; but. in the present instance IL
cost her no struggle at all. Virtue had neither
a warm constitution nor tender heart to con-
tend with: and as for romantic ove-its tor
ments. raptures. conflicts. Illusions. perplexi-
ties-nothing In Sir Isaac Newtons works
could have been less Ineligible to mind like
Jenny's. She positively would not. for all his
Grace was worth land so she told him). be-
that thing whose proper name It did not
abhor her. as 1t did poor Desdemona.
to speak very distinctly. But she had
no delicacy to be wounded by the
aHrontinG proposal: nor did she SEQ in It any
reason for keeping him at greater distance
than before since she felt herself in no danger.
and 1t was not forbidden by the Ten Com
mandments. nor in any part OF the Bible. to
let q man. whether handsome or ugly. sit by
ones Preside an hour or two every morning
Their intercourse. therefore. continued undi-
minished; continued so for years And what
was remarkable. but a proof that the world
can sometimes be just. II raised no scandalous
reports to her prejudice; the town, the court
nay. the sister maids Of honor-watchful spies
upon all that passed-bore witness to It's per-
feet innocence. and pronounced her character
unimpeachable."
The outcome OF this love story, which was
familiar to Swift and Pope. was that the Duke
OF Argyll married plain Jenny Warburton sir
months after the death Of his first wife, which
occurred less than two years after that q,
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