WHY GAMBETTA DIDN'T MARRY.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4483, 18 May 1883, Page 3

WHY GAMBETTA DIDN'T MARRY.

Gambetta, bachelor as he was, was once engaged to be married to a heiress. The breaking off of the engagement was creditable to the Frenchman's sense of grati . tude. From the time of bis leaving bis humble home of Cahors to bis rise to the highest rank of public personages, Gambetta lived with a faithful, loviDg. devoted mnt. who bad followed him to Pans, and made everywhere he went a pleasant home for him Fhe was at once his maid •of - all - work and his congenial companion, and he was as deeply attached to her as sh« to him. His

engagement to a handsome and accomplished girl with a dot of seven millions was a shock to the good aunt,

but she yielded gracefully to the ioevita ble. When the arrangements for the marriage were being discussed,, however, tbe young lady took it into her head to make it* condition of their union that the aunt should be excluded from the new establishment. She was scarcely elegant enough to adorn elegant salons Gambetta explained how much bis aunt had been to him; the rich beauty w»s only the more obdurate. Gambetta took up

... bis hat, and; with a profound bow, Sit 1 Adieu," said he, *' we were not made ~to understand each other," and the marriage wai put off for ever.