AN ENGLISH ROMANCE.

Western Star, Issue 100, 9 October 1875, Page 3

AN ENGLISH ROMANCE.

A LOUD S LOTE FOR HIS PARLOUR-MAID. ! Here,, says Moncure D. Conway, in a recent letter from England to The Cincinnati Commercial, is rather a quaint bit of gossip,, which has the double merit of. bring credible and creditable. Lord Blank, a little time ago, was the subject of, a considerable scandal, which appears to have got abroad through a governess who resigned her position in his mansion (he was a widower), and afterwards as-, signed as her reason his lordship’s improper Intimacy with one of his domestics.. Just as these whispers began to circulateconcerning, the nobleman whos® character had been spotless, his friends received marriage cards in which his name was connected with a plain “Miss” Somebody whom, nobody had heard of. The fact.turned out to be that Lord Biauk had fallen in . love with his parlour-maid; that for a year or more he had devoted every evening of. his life to her instruction, so unconsciously giving rise to scandal; and that when the maid had learned as much as young ladies generally know (which she says was not nearly so hard as to get her h-s right) he married her; Of course to the grand: world in which the eccentric nobleman moved the scandal bad only been an amusing surprise; but the marriage with the parlour-maid—that was shocking. However, this young dame had several characteristics to whose value people of fashion are not insensible.. First, she is one of the most beautiful women in London; secondly,, she has a refined simplicity of manner,, and, thirdly, the has a taste in dress which has already gained her a. certain fame among artists. In short,, the parlour-maid turns out to have had all the honors in her hand, and now, even among those of her class to which her lord has introduced her, there is no more general favourite, as. certainly there arc none more piquant and ; attractive.