A REAL-LIFE ROMANCE.

Evening Star, Issue 4290, 25 November 1876, Page 2

A REAL-LIFE ROMANCE.

Madame Van der Weyer, says an English paper, is no w the most intimate frieud of Her Majesty, who, I belieye, presented her with the house, she-now occupies near Windsor in order that they,may he "dm atgfny rate during the brief periods jfehen royalty can be induced to tolerate the atmbßpherfc of England! ISbwj I Uuak

lowing little my meaning:— there -was in an office at Boston a certain clerk named Joshua Bates, possessed of rather a susceptible nature. Every dow at which young man sat, a little, ragged, shoeless girl face and a paging mass of tangled yellow hair, which attracted, the notice of young JbsHua BateV^'#W fatten his nose tigainst the.windowpane in life efforts to her with~ "ijil.; eyes 7,7 as 7 flha yrmS/ up to the -Wharves romp with a group of companions more ragged knd wfld;.loo|ing thian herself.* Anally, the susceptible Joshua r ! so enamoured, of this little blende/sfi»iry that he made her acquaintance, found wheiS she lived, had her cltshed respectably, put her to school, and then married h,er.~ of time Jjshua rose to be mana«h]g%terk in thetopeat pweiof «s|sl«d in London. The wives ofrtifce threat ihadJusatd of tU of. Mis. Bates, land-ffib^t-ii^ld A°9L W&* ;- 7 cipnsequentty the -order was passed £«*•£** be snubbediM Bfft the »tti§ tiin' * mjMjWflien>%er amiabUity, Ytnqmsneff the scruples 'JfafriatiltoMo stern'resfeectabilityrof the-merefarifi? dames,|and the BQpietyJ in moved, X& BaMbecame.e parther4n the*ou«6"of «a r fing Brothers, and-his wife had 4ne ''Boar to ; ffie x Belgian ijlmkterj>*he chostoTifenfidant and most intimftte^friei*tjf £ his l and ©msblf>rVn6Jned nnement King Leopold introduced i the wtfe.of his- fevorite niecey the 'Queen the closest; and most if the quondam shoeless] raggett?Bfctle Bohemiaitof Boston were not,oeyond the reach of mundane vanities,.,.she might weft: feet proud of seeing daughter the- intimate friend dP>* the present Queen and future. Kin* of Great Britain. , ■ *. r!^>