A PRETTY FRANCO-AMERICAN STORY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2982, 15 January 1881, Page 5 (Supplement)

A PRETTY FRANCO-AMERICAN STORY.

During the last year I was in Paris I heard a very pretty story. A party of merry, bright-eyed American girls were at a ■window looking on to a courtyard. Soon a seemingly old man crossed the yard. " That's the Marquis of X," said one of the girls. "He lives in a garret of the house, and lives by giving French lessons." " I'll begin lessons with him to-morrow," said one of the youngest girls. And she did so. She soon perceived that her master was one of the most polished men she hnd ever met. Ho was not over thirty ; want and grief alone had bent him into premature old age, for lie had an aged and sick mother to keep, which his earnings could not always do. What aid our little American girl do ? She quietly proposed to marry tho marquis. I need not tell you how readily he accepted. This is the happiest marriage between a poor French nobleman and a rich American girl that I know of. I can give the number of the house and the street where the first act of this comedy took place. The Marquis walks now as straight as anyone, nnd the dowager Marchioness may frequently be seen at the Bois, sitting by the side of her brilliant daughter-in-law, whom she worships, as well she may. —Paris Lady Correspondent.