A Romantic Marriage.

Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 93, 22 August 1871, Page 6

A Romantic Marriage.

. • , —o.— The Melbourne correspondent of the Daily Times furnishes the following racy account of a very romantic marriage in the gay capital of Victoria : "There are always incidents in the daily ! life of a city which excite a good deal of 1 interest, furnish matter for a good deal of \ talk, but which still rarely get noted in the ] newspapers. We know of old that love laughs at locksmiths—that it treats the conventional barriers separating class from class with transcendent scorn—that it heroically braves opinion and censure and ridicule in gaining its object. Still it is rare in these modern days, and in so prosaic a community as ours, to see all these qualities of the universal passion so strongly display themselves as they have in a case which has lately excited the wonderment of Melbourne. The facts told simply are as follows : —The other day, about seven o'clock in the evening, there was a ring at the door of Mr Joseph Thompson, a well known bookmaker. Barnet, brother to Joseph, walked to the door and opened it, i when he found a cab with a young lady in it. The lady asked for Mr Thompson, and on recognising Barnet said that he i was the man that she wanted, at the same i time raising a thick veil which she wore, j and asking him if he did not know her. i She displayed rather a pretty face and a | pair of bright blue eyes, which, however, ! were not familiar to Mr Thompson. She [ j told him she had often seen him on the j i race-course, and also brought to his rememI brance that sue had once dropped a hand-j | kerchief for him to pick up as he was pas-! 1 sing while she was getting out of a car- j j riage. This she told him was to attract i j his attention. She had long loved him, j j and at last had left everything to come j | and live with him. She went on to exI plain to the amazed Barney, as he is faini- j I liarly called, that she was the niece and I • ward of Mr S , a well-known soft I goods merchant; that her aunt was about j j to return to England, and s!il j was to have i | accompanied her, but that she had deterI mined not to be parted from the object of | her love, and had left her uncle's house for | | ever. Well, Barnet did not know what j |to do. At length he conducted the lady ! | into the house, and went away to the I theatre to find his brother. He soon told j j Joe of the " rum go" that had happened to i ! him, and Joe advised him to send her! i home to her relations at once. He returned, j \ and attempted to do this, but she declared \ I she would not go, and by this time the at-1 '; tractive face and blue eyes, and the "swell I connexion," were telling on the heart of Barney, who now swore that he should i like to marry the girl. It was decided to \ send her for the night to the. residence of a j married friend. Next clay, Joe enquired j | about town, found that tiie young lady was; i all she professed to be, that she had some j

property in her own right, but which was | settled upon her, and th.it there was no | obstacle to the match. Joe talked to his ] brother in the language familiar to him, swore with much vigour of expletive that the thing must be done right, straightforward, no - nonsense, till they were married, and the girl stayed at the friend's house another nigh*-. The next day Barney was married to the fair one, dropping on his knees at the part of the Marriage Ser vice where the minister said "Let us pray," like (as his brother expressed it) " a lamb." The day after, Joe went to Mr S. to relate what had been done. Mr S. enquired how the girl had spent her time prior to tier marriage. Joe answered that tveryihing had been done all right, and on the ■ square, adding " If we had been ho most respectable people, we could not have acted more honourably than wc did." Mr S. observed that it was well it was no worse, but the affair would have beeu less unpleasant to him if the young lady had married within her own sphere. " Very likely," said Joe, " but look you here, Ml | 3., she might have married some line gen- | tlemau in her own ' spear,' and not got sc j good a husband as she has got in young | Barney." The girl had before written tc j say that she had left her friends for ever j and that she should remain in the sphere jof her husband. She appears quite "al home'' in the society of the Jewish betting men and " horsey gents," for one of whon 'she quitted the eminently respectable circh of Toorak. If she is pleased with tin change, so arc the tribe of the Thompson: with the honor and respectability impartei by this romantic matrimonial alliance.