GAMBETTA'S LOVE STORY.
Gambetta is a bachelor, but he has not lived so long without having at least contemplated marriage. Thestory of his engagement to an heiress in Western Frat.ce, and its sudden breaking off, gives us a fresh glimpse of his character. From the time of his leaving his humble home at Cahors, till his rise to the highest rank of public personages, Gambetta lived with a faithful, loving, devoted aunt, who followed him to Paris, and who made, everywhere he went, a pleasant home for him. She was at once his maid-of-all-work and his congenial companion, and he was deeply attached to her as she to him. His engagement to a handsome and accomplished girl, with a portion of seven millions, was a shock to the good aunt, but she yielded gracefully to the inevitable. When the arrangements tor the marriage were being discussed, however, the young lady took it into her head to make it a condition of the union that the aunt should be excluded from the new establishment. She was scarcely elegant enough to adorn gilded salons. Gambetta explained how much his aunt had been to him; the rich beauty was only the more obdurate. Gambetta took up his hat and made a profound bow. "Adieu," he said ; " we were not made to understand each other." And the marriage was put off for ever.
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Mt Benger Mail, Volume I, Issue 44, 2 March 1881, Page 2
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229GAMBETTA'S LOVE STORY. Mt Benger Mail, Volume I, Issue 44, 2 March 1881, Page 2
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