Romantic Marriage of Hobart Pasha

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 48, 2 October 1886, Page 3

Romantic Marriage of Hobart Pasha

"♦ Not the least romantic chapter of Hobart Pasha's career was his second marriage in 1874. It sounds like the plot of a novel, and the heroine of th© third volume still lives to mourn the loss of the hero. Hobart Pasha, as the papers told when tbe story of his death came across the wires, was the fourth son of the Dukoof Buckingham and a distinguished naval officer before he entered the Sultan's service, and rose to Mahommedan honours and dignities that no Christian had ever before obtained. During the early part of his earner, whil<- he wa« still in the English service, a brother <ifnrev <»f his was so severely wounded that tho surgeou announced to him th<- mortal nature of hi.s injury. The dying man sent for the future Pasha to whom he was greatly attached, and (•••niided to him a secret. He had married a girl who was of rather buiii ble parentage, and because of his family's opposition the marriago had heew kopt concealed, and the girl rested under a stigma. A child had Iwimi l*im to them just before h<» left England, and now that he was about to die bo was anxious that it and its mot hor should be righted in the eyes of the world, (implications as to its proof had arisen by the death ef witnesses, hi.t he trusted to his friend Hobart to repair his fault. "If you will pledge your honour fer the truth of the marriage," he said, "the world will believe you, and you will believe me when I swear to you that it is so. When Hobart now become a Turkish officer, returned to England, ho under took to comply with the request of his dead friend, but the young mother, under the weight of her grief and the equivocal position she occupied, had followed her husband, and the dead man's relatives, when he at last discovered the child, refused to acknowledge it. Nothing was left to him but to take care of his little orphan himself, so he accepted the charge with what grace he could muster, and when he left England, as he did soon after he placed her at a famous school for girls in the Isle of Wight, where so many English woman of rank have gotten their training and education. The went back to his duties, and thought no more about her, except to send an occasional letter full of good advice with boyes of Turkish sweetmeats and trinkets. When she was 17 years eld ho got a letter from her full of passionate misery and stained with tears. Some girl enemy had discovered the mystery about her "birth, and taunted her witb it, and ehe wanted him to come and take her somewhere, anywhere away from girls who wpto cruel. So the tenderhearted old sailor put himsolf aboard tbe next steamer for home, and got his little protege, though what he ■was to do with her he didn't quite know. She was young; the was "^^•etty ; she clung to him with tenderest gratitude and love, and the hearts of oven bronzed, grey-moustacbed old sailors are not proof against tbat, and so, as that, after all seemed the quickest and simplest solution of the trouble and tbey both wished it, they were married. And now, at 29, she is" left to mourn the loss of ene of the niost brilliant and daring commanders England ever produced. —N. Y. World.

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