WHY GAMBETTA DIND'T MARRY.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1275, 23 May 1883, Page 2

WHY GAMBETTA DIND'T MARRY.

vrauuwwa, Dacueior as ue was, was once engaged to be married to an heiress. The breaking off of the engagement was creditable to the French man's sense of gratitude. From the time of has leaving, hia humble home of Cahor* till his- rise to the highest rank of public personages, Gambettelivcd witha faithful, Joying, devoted aunt, who had followed him to Paris, and wbcr made everywhere he weat & pleasant home for him. She was at once his raaid-of-all-work and his congenial companion, and he was asdeeply attached to her as she was to him. His engagement to a handsome and accomplished girl with a pot of seven millions was a shock to the goodaunt, but she yielded gracefully to ft* inevitable. When the arrangemaist* for the marriage were being discuam?*. however, the young lady took it intoher head to make it a condition of their union that the aunt should be excluded from the hew establishment She was scarcely elegant enough to adorn gilded salons. Gambetta explained how much his aunt had been to him ; the rich beauty was only the | more obdurate. Gambetta took up ! his hat, and, with a profound bow, " Adieu,'* said he "we were not madfr to understand each other." And themarriage was put off for ever.