A MODERN MATRIMONIAL ROMANCE.

Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1755, 4 June 1886, Page 5

A MODERN MATRIMONIAL ROMANCE.

Who will deny that there is still left a shred of romance in real life, even in this matter-of-fact age ? Truth is proverbially stranger than fiction, and the high-flown sentiment that we find so difficult to digest in the ordinary threevolume novel we swallow with unction when we know it to have actually occurred. The story runs thus : — Three years ago a young good-look-ing officer, well-connected, with close upon £10,000 a year, fell in love with a beautiful and accomplished girl of good family, but in narrow circumstances. She reciprocated his affection, but, with a pride that is often most tenacious in the poorest families, gently but firmly refused his offer. She pursued her study of singing — a passion which, up to this time knew no rival— while the young soldier sadly embarked in the Malabar to join his regiment in India. Just a month ago Ja bronzed and bearded man returned from India, and preferred travelling overland through Europe to going by the usual sea route. He strolled one night into the chief opera house at Dresden, and recognising in the leading soprano the only woman he had ever loved, he passionately renewed his suit. Now in the zenith of her fame, the prima donna would not refuse him, and they were married at once by special license. The Isle of Wight was chosen for the honeymoon, and they are now, no doubt, utterly oblivious of the fact of the thermometer Jregistering several degrees below freezing-point, and of the penetrating eastwind which makes itself only too apparent to prosaic mortals. — Life.