A ROMANTIC STORY.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11552, 13 February 1906, Page 4

A ROMANTIC STORY.

Ermenegaldi .Rossi di Castro, a son of a well-known Italian nobleman, the Marquis di Castro, fell in love with a plump, vivacious dressmaker at Turin, and introduced her to his parents as the lady of his ctoice. The marquis objected strongly t^ " i . cou .^«*i young di C4SW6 tefrriined I , ( to take his avtoeljteftiffc to England, [ j whe^ t!is S*b*Xh ytf twenty-thre^ and ] 3 il tne Maid of "similar ; age. can, rnarry l ■* whether theyr paxont^ like It o^ not. * t)i Castro left Italy- ostensibly alone, ! and lE6r. a time his father allowed j hinl Jb2o a month. But when the 3 " marquis received the marriige cer. tl- ' ficate of his son .he. ic'fced $t the jf orthodox storh, #i paftsnt is expected to ■'• d 6, aiid.GUt Mia ofif without even the l , proVe. ? i'bial shilling. The young 3 couple had nothing put by for a ' rainy day, and were soon reduced to living in a single rpqni behind a I barber's shop,^ in a nV^Aft street off 9 ClerkenWel}. To secure the rent for 3 the Meagrely furnished apartment, di Castro, after many rebuffs in other quarters, found himself glad to employes noble hands in lathering customers iv a cheap shaving saloon * for a few shillings a week. PI is „ wages, however, were not enough to - cover ' more than the cost of the; modest apartment in which he and his lady lived, so she r'everiSd to her ; old trade as a dressmaker, and cdme nvenc'ed ib buy a sewing, machine dn II thfe hire system.. Trade, however, became slack, and her payments fell behind so much that idie hiring company sent ail agent to take the - machine away. The signora appears to natfe resented the man's intrusion, and he in turn seems to have put her impolitely on one side, with the 5 result that he was summoned for 7 > assault, and the Italian nobleman's romance became public property. No doubt the indiscreet young fellow will now find plenty of friends coming forward to help him to something better in the way of employment than the -poat oi lather-boy in a penny shaving shop, even, i? his aristocratic father doeajnot relent.