VON MOLTKE'S MARRIAGE.
• _ _ . . .ih'T ,'.:n!(.iii! JiJiL. i'iJi.-"i i $Then Jon .l^q^kpjet^pjad.:^, •vHol-v. stein, after reorganising ~ the Turkish army, he found living. j there with his aister — who, had^SttrH^j^i^^jite, an Englishman— a' Jyoang_girl between 1 5 and 10, a daughter* of i Mf-' Bute's first f marriage. -Ith'e pratty Heiie fe gifi ! loved already, before teeing him, the soldier had sent from, the Orient such interesting letters io [his sister; As for Von MoHke,tia had' udfcil r then f seen in a "wbioatad J only a being distantly interfeilng .wiih: tiw. matup^ical Ufa of a worker. But when a man forty; years old is loved by a : bawltohiflg girl oM6j'he ends by returning her afS&etion. From that time there was but A there Was' but one work. He married J dne woman in the world to him as sweet Mary Bute, and when she died in '68 the great Field Marshal could say that his life as a social being was also ended ; onlyjt&e soldier retrained; •: The Go&ntesg was buried in his beautiful Jpairk in Silesia, aad : on 'fitio hiar-' ble above her is written, (< Love is the f ulfiHiqg of the law." Mary Yoa Moilke was very merry, vqtj charming^ and- it is told as a pathetic truth, that since her death the Field Marshal has not been seen to laugh. :
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 178, 30 July 1877, Page 4
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221VON MOLTKE'S MARRIAGE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 178, 30 July 1877, Page 4
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