The Loves of Lilly Langtry.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 141, 20 May 1885, Page 3

The Loves of Lilly Langtry.

The failure of Mrs Lanjjtry m London will cany hoi quickly back hero, whore she has toon purchasing a house m Thirteenth-street.- The story of her life's loves lias never been truly told When she came a beautiful young Wide, to London, it was her fortune to .sit for an artist to whose studio Prince Leopold was a constant visitor. He met her; was struck • wi;h her if not at first striking yet peculiarly classic beauty, which »rows on you thempre >on Jo.»k. and presented her to his brother, tin; Piincij of Wale*, who was fascinated from the fit st. It is the diatom m society, m London, when the Prince accepts ait invitation to send him a c.ird and ask -him. «> affix the names of any he might desire to meet him Mrs Langtry's was always affixed. She became the vogue. She was for the time the dream of the poet and the painter. The Duke of Sutherland said when here that one night at a great hull at Stafford House, .as she entered and walked down the hall -alone, vim ply dressed m white, there was a pause m the music and dance to»aze on her auperb loveliness. And so °her love's current ran smoothly along until oue of.these fancies which • will come to women TJin iv to break it. She ha 4 met m socie'y Sir George Cherwynd, loved him, as Ciiiitille say*, ami fell that he loved her. There are many who may rem'&rilier the stoiy of how the beautiful Lady Florence Pager, on the morning of her intended wedding with the wealthy Heniy Chaplain quietly at an "early hour got into her brougham, drove to a secluded church, ami there met and married the young Marquis of Hastings. On his death she became the wife of Chetwynd.: She was seized while Ktill young with paralysis. Sho took to religion when she lost the power of sirf, and weut through a course of ritualistic curates.. Her husband, left, the power of sinuing, continued to sin, and lound that happiness, fled from curates, Langtry "dwelt with thee." Society could not forgive m a Baronet what it had pardoned m a Prince, threw up its hands and even. Mrs Langtry found no more her accustomed place on the Prince's ticket, and quietly retired. The place of hw retirem- nt (near Twickenham) was not far from Mr Labouchere's villa of St-. Amies. His gentle heart was touched by her womuuV sorrow. He advised her to *eek «i»lace on the stage, the forlorn hope of the aiHicted female, anl Met his wife— a well-trained actress, Henrietta Hodge son— to coach hei. .The result— .-she came here, wa* seen and conquered. The admiring gaze of Frederick Gebhdidtfell on and' fallowed \utv But accustomed to tmch admiration, she merely regarded him as but one more scalp on "her Well-stocked belt Sir George Chetwynd had agreed to follow her and accompany her lound the States ; and he had actually taken his room on board the Bothnia and gone as far aa Liverpool with the just deceased Earl ot Aylesfortl, his companion to be, when so many messages anil so many apparent proofs of her faithlessness came crowding on him that he returned home. Lord Ajlesford left alone. Mr Geuhardt, who had, with an assertion oi heroic .•»e!fsacrifice at the shrine of public feeling left her at St Louis, really to be put out of the way when Chetwynd came, when Chtv)wynd did uot cone returned to her side and has remained there. Indifference has grown into love. She is about to seek a divorce, and they wi?l probably be married m the autumn. Tley are both wealthy. She is beautiful and very amiable, agreeblo and gentle* He m a fine young follow, and, whatever other fanltß he may carry, has I elmved m this instance, to use the vulgar vernacular, ♦* like a brick." So, as Claud Melnotte prayed, ** may all good angels, etc., etc."