AN ENGLISH ROMANCE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2089, 14 September 1875, Page 3

AN ENGLISH ROMANCE.

A XOBD'S lOVJB EOB HIS PABLOUJI-MAID, Efcre, says Mo^purp J). ponway, in. & |ecenj; letper fr.pra'E'ngland to Tte CmcTnnati j^ommerp'ijil, is nttn'er a quaint;-bit 6'f gossip, which has the double merit of being credible." and creditable. Lord Blank, a little time ago, was the subject p,f a considerable scandaV wbiph t^pppa^ to Jja^e go'v abroad through a governess who resigned her position in his mansion

(he was a widower), and afterwards assigned as her reason his lordship's improper intimacy with one of his domestics. Just as these whispers began to circulate concerning the nobleman whose character had been spotless, his friends received marriage cards in which his name was connected with aplain " Miss " Somebody whom nobody had heard of. The fact turned out to be that Lord Blank had fallen in love with his parlourmaid; that for & year or more he had devoted every evening of his life to' her instruction, so unconsciously giving rise to scandal; and that when the maid had learned aa much as young ladies generally know (which she says was not nearly so hard as to get her h-s right) he married her. Of course to the grand world in which the eccentric nobleman moved the scandal had been only an amusing surprise; but the marriage with the parlour-maid —that was shocking. However, this young dame had several characteristics to whose value pepple of fashion are not insensible. First, she is one of the most beautiful women in London ; secondly, she has » refined simplicity of manner, and, thirdly, she has a taste in dress which has already gained her a certain fame among artists. In short, the parlour-maid turns; out to have had all the honors in her hand, and now, even among those of her class to which her lord has introduced her, there is. no more general favourite, as certainly there are none more piquant and attractive.