A Faithful and Trustworthy Lady's Maid.

Evening Post, Volume XLI, Issue 139, 15 June 1891, Page 4

A Faithful and Trustworthy Lady's Maid.

Some facts which throw an odd light on the manners and customs of certain sorts of " our old nobility " cropped up on Saturday in the course of a civil action which the Marchioness of Huntly is bringing against a Brighton hotel company. Her ladysnip lost jewellery valued at £1000 whilst stopping at the Brighton Hotel at Brighton, and sues the proprietary for the value thereof. The company resist the claim, averring that if any jewellery was lost in their house, which they are by no means prepared to admit, it was lost through the negligence of Lady Huntly herself or Lady Huntly's maid, Hannah Mooro. This young person proved to be tho damsel who committed adultery with that sprightly peer, Lord Connemara, and whoso evidence sufficed to give Lady Connemara freedom. The discovery of his lordship's plebeian amourette with Hannah was generally considered at the time most fortunate, as otherwise Lady Connemara would havo been obliged to disclose a far worse scandal and smirch several noble families. That neither she nor Lord Connemara were ungrateful to the girl was , apparent from the oharactor Miss Mooro produood in Court on Saturday. In this | (written after the divorce) Her Ladyship " cannot speak too highly of the fidelity and trustworthiness of Hannah Moore." What is one to make of such a statement, or of tho fact that a blameless lady like the Marchiness of Huntly haß deliberately taken into her service a self-confessed adulteress. Most people in Court on Saturday, after hearing Miss Moore's crosß-nxamination, doubted exceedingly the woman's having ever committed horself with any man. The law of libel boing what it is, one had better not speculate further.