MOT SO ROMANTIC AFTER ALL.
Lord Drummond, ■whose romantic little story went around the press last week, writes to correct part of it. Ho has not sailed for Scotland to make up with the Earl of Perth, to whose estates and title he is the heir. The stern Earl has given no signs of relenting, and it doesn’t seem to trouble Lord Drummond much whether he relents or not, as he will come into the titles and property at no distant day, when the ancient Earl, his grandfather, leaves Scotland for an untitled world. Drummond denies, also, that he married a “ maid of low degree.” She was, he says, the daughter of a Loudon merchant, and then my Lord makes the terrible statement, that ought to horrify aristocratic Britain, to wit ; “ She has something better than blue blood, namely, culture and rclinement,” as if anything- in the world could be better than blue blood ! Furthermore he is not a poor fisherman on LongIsland, but is connected with one of the best business houses in New York, and lives in Brooklyn Heights in very good circumstances. This still leaves many of the elements of romance in the story, and it is to be hoped Lord Drummond will let it stand where it is.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2284, 13 July 1880, Page 3
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212MOT SO ROMANTIC AFTER ALL. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2284, 13 July 1880, Page 3
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