ELOPEMENT OF A YOUNG LADY.
Yesterday afternoon a young lady living with her parents in East Melbourne suddenly left her home, accompanied—as a letter left behind for her father states—by a French gentleman, who, for some time past, has been paying his addresses to her. The young lady is the only daughter of a wellknown and wealthy merchant of this city, while the gentleman who has captured her heart is said to belong to a highly aristocratic French family. About two months ago this interesting foreigner came to Melbourne, where, on account ©f his high connections and insinuating address, he was at once welcomed into the highest ranks of society. Some six weeks ago he formed the acquaintance of the young lady with whom he has eloped, at a ball in St. Kilda. Subsequently he met her at other festive gatherings, and every time he saw her, her attractions seemed to have worked deeper into his heart, TheJJetter left behind tells how she came to reciprocate the love of the Frenchman. As Othello triumphed over the affections of Desdemona, so did this French gallant win the love of the Melbourne merchant’s daughter. Having travelled nearly all over the globe, he was full of tales of his adventures, and it was his wont to pour into the charmed ear of the East Melbourne
beauty many a story of sorrow, joy, and danger that he had gone through during his wanderings in distant countries. As the lady listened she alternately loved and pitied, while the full wealth of love of her young and enthusiastic nature was freely bestowed upon the narrator. At length the insinuating foreigner breathed a tale of love into the ear of the young lady. It was reciprocated. They agreed to join their destinies, and share the smiles and frowns of fortune together. The father of the young lady would not consent to the match, as his daughter’s suitor had no settled employment. But love was not to be thwarted thus, and so the couple resolved to have a clandestine marriage. Last Saturday night the young lady sat up to an unusually late hour. Her father remonstrated with her, when she told him she had a letter to write, and would retire to rest when it was finished. At breakfast yesterday morning she appeared rather absent-minded, as though something were pressing upon her mind. Shortly afterwards she dressed herself, and went out for a walk, saying to one of the servants as she left the house, that by the time she returned home again, she would, perhaps, be a wife, a remark which the servant took no particular notice of at the moment, thinking her young mistress was joking. As evening arrived without the return of the young lady, her parents naturally became anxious, and when the servant told them what the young lady had said as she left the house, their suspicions pointed at once to the true state of the case. These suspicions were confirmed on the young lady’s mother finding on her daughter’s dressing table the letter which has already been referred to. It stated that she had left her home with the young Frenchman, and that she intended to marry him speedily, and then to return and ask her father’s forgiveness and his reconciliation to the alliance. The father of the young girl, though distressed at her sudden disappearance, believes that the Frenchman will act honorably and marry his child, and that then the runaway couple will, as the daughter in her letter states, return to claim forgiveness. '
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Evening Star, Issue 4098, 15 April 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)
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593ELOPEMENT OF A YOUNG LADY. Evening Star, Issue 4098, 15 April 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)
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