The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-04-15
TILTED MEN WHO
CAUSED REGRETS
WOMEN WHO LOST oPPoRTUN NIFTY
OF MARRIAGE BECAUSE OF
bad JUDGMENT.
ROM ANTI EPISODES
.OB. WHY DID NOT MARRY NY
DEAR CHARLEYv, walls THE
FAIR ONE IN YEARS
TH..T FOLLOW.
ROM ANTIC EPISODES


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In t1is burst OF confidence to n
friend a beautiful American neiress
regretted her lifting years ago OF
Charles Stewart FarneIi but there are
not wanting admirers of the great
IRISH leader who affirm that the jilt-
ing was the best thing that could
have happened TO him. A happy
married life would probably have pre-
! vented him entering the political
arena altogether
AS g young man--his brother, MIR.
John H. rarnell. tells us--the Irish
politician fell in love with pretty
Wicklow girl of good family, with
whom lie hunted a great deal. bu.
the affair came to nothing. and Par
nell remained hesrt-free until he vis-
tied Paris in 1870 and there met n
Young American heiress, TO whom he
became engaged.
They parted for time. she to go
to Rome and he to return TO Ire
land, and ultimately the girl wrote
saying she was returning to America
without mentioning anything about an
engagement. Pa;'nell followed her to
America. and the engagement seem
ed TO be renewed. when Miss W
suddenly told him she was not going
70 marry him. making the excuse
that he was only an Irish gentleman
without sufficient means to marry
with no name in public. and that
she could not marry any one without
great public name
This dumfounded Charley" who
after trying his best to persuade her
10 marry hlm.-g gave up the heart
breaking job. To distract his thoughts
paTneli plunged into politics. With
what result the world knows He
never met the lady again. but. ac-
cording to the authority mentioned.
another American heiress in later
, years proposed to Charley" who left
Paris to escape her.
Romantic Episode.
The engagement had been publicly
announced and the day of the marriage
| fixed. when the startling news leaked
out that Lady Paset had eloped with
the late Marquis Of Hastings. one OF
the most daring turf plungers the rae
ing world has ever known Under the
pretext OF shopping at a certain we'll
known emporium in the West End
Lady Paget walked in one door and
out OF another, where she met the
Marquise, with whom she Immediately
! drove away. They were st once mar
! ried.
l
Mr.. Chaplin his revenge. His horse.
Hermit. won the Derby at enormous
| odds-somethink like S. TO land
Lord Hastings was ruined. He died
only four wears after his romantic
marriage. and his widow. who after
ward married Sir George Chetwyu1,
also died few years ago. 1t was
something like twelve years before Mr..
Chaplin recovered from the blow and
= than 81 m Ax.
son-Gower, sister of the present Duke
OF Sutherland
The story of how Charles Dickens
was jilted is particularly interesting.
When he was eighteen Dickens be-
came acquainted with the three daugh-
ters OF George Beadnell. 81 Lombard
street banker. With one OF them,
Maria tthe original Of Dora In David
/ Copperfield''). who was a year his SEN
!or he Immediately fell in love, and
Maria firted with him very desperate
~. But the love making of the fu-
ture novelist was not treated very ser,-
ouslS. Tor he was not considered by
any means an eligible party, and even
! Maria herself adopted an attitude of
amused tolerance.
Dickens Love Story.
For three Years the affair went on.
and then Dickens realized that his
with the girl. whose caprices mad
dened and gladdened him alternately.
Tor. AZ n matter of fact, Maria Bead :
nell was a willful coquette. The end
OF II all was reply that held out
no nope. and so the parting came.
FOR twenty years they saw no more
Of one another. Ultimately Marie
Headneii was married to Henry Louis
! Winter. and when Dickens met her
a6 oh i
his youthful ideal. Mrs. Winter wrote
/ TO her old lover but Dickens did not
| care 10 renew correspondence with
MS Old sweetheart. Then Ir. Winter
failed. and the chagrined wife APP
peated to the lover of her giribood for
! help hnt without avail. and the. reu
nance ended long before Mrs. Win.
! ter's death In 1886.
A CURIOUS fact regarding the Hitting
/ OF famous men is tina, through p;oue
the* nave occasional been led into
marriages which have resulted in. tha
utmost misery for both husband and
wire. There was John Rusltn for
instance. who fell in love az bo,
with the beautiful Rose DC la Touche
! whom he woosd with poens- ro.
niances and dramas and mute wcr
/! snip' recetVlnG nothing in return but
Chilly indifference and lively ridicuIe
The result was that at the are or
twenty nine he married lady of
great beauty. Miss Grey. OF family
long intimate with the Ruskins The
marriage. We are told, was a some
what hurried act. and brought no hap
plness to eithe- end six years after
/ ward 1t was dissolved.
Case os lord Byron.
$ H'0ss.-t.2sges' ~ sasA ssSs1ss Of " Cord
Byron. who was led into his unhsppy
matrimonial alliance with Miss MIL
tanke. only daughter and heiress OF
Sir Ralph Miibanke, through being
rejected by another Young lady. ue
had proposed to the latter and, as he
held her letter OF refusal in his hand.
ne said to a frierh: 1T seems tbst
/ 1t is to be Miss Nilbanke. after all"
lie sat down and wrote the fatal
letter. handing it to his friend for
nerusai "A very pretty letter. his
friend remarked. after reading Il: ut
Is a pity that il should not GO AND
! II shall go" exclaimed Byron. and
/ thus opened one of the most tragic
. chapters OF his chequered Ijfe-story.
According TO the biography Of the
Iron Chancellor" published In 1909,
Bismarck. when he was twenty-one
years OF age, paid erdent court to a
charming English girl a Miss Rus
sell. To whom he ultimately became
engaged. He first met Miss Russell
mt Wtesbaden in company with her
uncle and aunt. the Duke and Duchess
% c.. ard Bismarck made no secret
OF his tender fondness for the blonde
OF unsual beauty
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