DE MURSKA'S TWO HUSBANDS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 203, 25 September 1878, Page 4

DE MURSKA'S TWO HUSBANDS.

A reporter of the " Chicago InterOcean" has interviewed Madame De Mureka upon her matrimonial experiences, and reports her as follows : — 11 You know," she said, " that to begin with, " 1 am from a noble family, against whose wishes I went on the stage, a good musical education having incited me to make the effort. Success followed every step ; and when I sung during the Vienna Exposition, before the Emperor, the Shah of Persia, and many other potentates, I was in my triumph ; but we Hungarians have an old proverb that ' rather than stand in a fat stable, a donkey will try the slippery ice,' and I proved it. Since 1865 1 had never missed a season in the different capitals of Europe, but I became about fuur years ago possessed to travel, to see the world, and Bailed for this country ; but here I should tell you that for many years I had known a French Count, a friend, of my own family, and the eaviour of my brother's life. He love*, and wished to marry me. It would have pleased my father, but I could not decide to. Wherever I went for nearly three years, he followed me. I was unconscious that it created any gossip until I went to Australia. There my friends advised me Jo do it, and so I asked him io go away and leave me io peace. He shot himself, but the ball missed his heart and entered bis left arm, which it crippled. Touched by this proof of his devotion, I might have yielded, when I received a letter from a lady informing me of a disgraceful affaire d'amour of hi 3. This ended the matter, which left me with a sore heari for it wsb the first time that any imputation bad been cast upon me. Then followed the grand mistake of my life. I am not very stupid, but the climate must have softened my brain, or I could not have been bo blind. In our troupe was a young Scotchman, Anderson, a handsome, well-educated mßn, and an excellent pianist. I supposed that his brilliant complexion was the result of health, but it was only the indication of heart disease. I liked him very well, but never dreamed of anything more, though he showed me much attention. But while we were playing in New Zealand one evening be fell from the piano-stool insensible. We were much alarmed, and had him carried to my apartments, and sent for medical aid. "When the doctor came, he said that it ■was a terrible attack of heart disease resulting in dropßy so rapidly that they obliged to cut his boots to draw them off. To move him the physicians aaid would ba fatal. I therefore gave up my apartments and took others, and without thought of evil, chared with my maid in nursing him, for we were Btrangers in the place. He ■was soon pronounced to be dying, and could linger but a few weeks. AH at once I was roused from my compassion io hear that people were sayiog bad things of me because I was taking care of a sick man in ray own house. He, too, heard of it, and one day begged of me, for the Bake of my good name to marry him, as he had only a few days to live. I was foolish enough to do so, and went through the empty forms with a man almost a corpse. To the general surprise he lingered along for six weeks, and managed in that time to draw a large sum of money from the bank, which he sent to bis own family. He was my first husband, and I could not mourn him, for I had never loved, and now ceased to respect. $gy friends felt it so deeply that they |

resented my wearing black. My second marriage was to Mr Hill, my present husband, whom I have known for many yenrs." "How soon after Mr Anderson's death did you marry agaiD?" " You will be shocked when I tell you three months; but that was a marriage of love. Mr Hill knew the unhappy circumstances I had suffered from. He loved mp, and he thought it nonsense for us to wait, tho year etiquette prescribes, as thft circumetances were so unusual. Finally I consented; but we made the mistake of a clandestine marriage, to have it discovered half mi hour afterwards and les convenances were so shocked that they never recovered," ended the lady, with a emile. " And thua have the six husbands dwindled to two," quoth the reporter. "Yef," said Mademoiselle, "and though I have been the victim of much tulk, I have naught to blush for, and Had my happiness in ray present marriage."