ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT FROM PARIS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 227, 13 January 1877, Page 2

ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT FROM PARIS.

The Liverpool Daily Post gives the following account of an elopement from Paris:—"Two young Parisian ladies, possessing not a few personal attractions, well bred, well educated, and of well-to-do parents, who move in good society, apappear to have cast aside all questions of social rank and distinction, and set their affections oil two poor, though, doubtless, honorable French peasants, who naturally reciprocated the manifestations of attachment on the part of the fair creatures. Attired in the most approved Parisian fashions, and, as we have already indicated, being of a refined and prepossessing appearance, besides having other personal charms, the young ladies presented a remarkable contrast to the rude, uncultured swains in whom they had centered their affections. So far as age went, however, the two couples made a pretty good match. The peasants are apparently each about 2D years old ; while the ladies are 22 and 13 respectively, and just in the full bloom of health and beauty. The contrast between the lovers was all the more marked from the fact that the men were attired in the ordinary rustic dress of their country, consisting or a blue blouse—more easy fitting than elegant—and a slouch hat. They had all the airs and manners, too, of peasants, and walked about with their hands deep in their breeches pockets, in grim admiration of the young ladies with whom they had eloped, and in whoso company they no doubt expected to pass many happy days. As the sequel will show, however, they were doomed to disappointment. On Wednesday afternoon information was received in Liverpool that two young ladies, described in terms similar to those given above, had absconded from Paris with two French peasants 011 Monday evening, the destination of the runaway lovers, it was supposed, being America. The father of one of the girls, immediately on learning what had taken place, telegraphed to the police in London to be 011 the lookout, and then left Paris by the next train in pursuit of his adventurous daughter. Information was also forwarded from London to the police in Liverpool to the effect that it was likely the fugitives on arriving in the town would visit Mr. Petitmangin's temperance; hotel, 40, Lord iN T elson-street. This conjecture proved correct, and 011 Tuesday night, about eight o'clock, the indignant father, in company with a police-officer from London, proceeded to the above hotel, where they found, not only his truant daughter, but her peasant lover, as well as the other fugitive couple. The young lady insisted, before her father's face, that she would marry the man she loved, pointing, as she said so, to the peasant youth standing by her side in all his rusticity. She, moreover, in quite an indignant manner, asserted that when she came of age she had money of her own, so that she was independent of her father and everybody else, and at liberty to marry whom she liked. Such, however, was not the much-aggrieved father's opinion ; and by his instructions the whole of the four runaways were apprehended by a police-officer, and, under the safe protection of paterfamilias, conducted back to London, and thence to Paris.