A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.
A marriage occurred ia London recently, writes Moncura If. Cohway, which possessed some romsuiic features. A few months ago a paragraph in the papers described a xnelanokoly accident which befell a young man while out shooting. A stray shot entered one of his eyes arid extinguished it. This' gentlemen w^ highly educated and connected, Ihoujfl without fortune,' and he was only - 23 years of a<»e. He was brought to his lodging • house in Louloa, where he lay suffering. But a weal* thy r-.nd handsome young widow, on wlkvb c~laie he happened to be.Bhccoing whe : ; accident occurred, csme r,nd took v.r. I.er abode the rame house ia crdc:: , n"rso him. Her ears wr.s extend 1 though several wae^s., bue, alas, the other eye sym'patL:.«?ed \rith tbst. wh?ch h?d been put ou^, nnd i^, too, wa3 estingirshed, learin,^ the youth and scholar hopelessly and iotn'iy bl;nd. But the pretty widow wa« equal to the occasion. She proposed to him-— maivlage. fJ he result was a splendid company alighvlng at the door of afosuionair-e church in oar neighbourhood ; a beautiful dnpe of CO, attended by.liAr two liltle children, le.adipg a bli"d youl'i of %i to the altar, thsve to endow him wit'i all her expensive worldly goods ; end the t~.ro are now ezjjojhg thrl? hene/moon 0:1 the fine estate where the gentleman mr.y meditate on the ancient s.ylngs which JecLiro misfortune and fortune to be nea" neighbors.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2643, 28 June 1877, Page 2
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237A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2643, 28 June 1877, Page 2
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