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Show tiie JiAitnri") op iiurrijiKTOv ROMANTIC STUItr UP HIS ATTACHMENT ATTACH-MENT TO THE IIOWAIil il DU-ClIBSSOr DU-ClIBSSOr MANClItSTlJL. Tlie folIoHiug Is a very prttty and romantic story, anl prolobly true, to which much interest Is added ad-ded when the ages of the to personages per-sonages aru remembered, the duchess belli.; about 55 aud I-ord Harllngton two or three years her senior. "Ionf Hartlngton's mirrlage to Hie Dowager, Uuiht-s of Manchester Manches-ter is fixed to take place next year, when hi r late hubud, the duke, will have len dead about a year. When she married the D.ike of 5lnehetir she did so in 'fit.' af ter a lover's quarrel with Iord Hartingtnn. He was htr 'first aud only love.' Blie liad mapiul out a career for him, like many another proud ambitious girl. Itut he was of an Indolent turn. He listed activity and work, bhe admired loth. Hir Ideal was Lord lUrtin-ton as a gnat tate-msu tate-msu and man of pulillcnllaini. It Is said that his turdtJiipftltso sure of her tliat he ued to yawn after listening to her long plans for Ills future greatness and say; Time enough to conlder all that when marriage his made us dull." ,So one day his lotd-lilp was told that she would notmarrj him until lie proved himself worthy of his ancestry and had rmihed lurldc-il of usefulness In the worlJ. He U-came U-came aogo aIul "le lovirs artcd. He thought slie would relent with-iu with-iu twtnty-four hours, t-he believed be-lieved he would at one l-gln a career. Xtlther ln jiened. Bliekijt away and lxr.i Hartiugtun fuH.nl. Tlien the duke of Manchester come along, laid siege to her aud, with the aid of liir family, wou htr consent con-sent to marry him. Lord Harting-ton Harting-ton was carefully invited to all her rvctptions. eoclety noticed tliat on all these occasions they were always al-ways togethtr, aud, as usual, misjudged mis-judged them." In the late Duke of Manchester's will there Is a clause by which all lieuuests to his wife, In the event of the dowagir ducboe marrjlug again, are revoked. This has b.n much commented on In sociity, and rather unkindly, but as a matter of fact the explanation Is tlie most Simple. The lste duke knew pti-fectly pti-fectly well that the only man his widow would be likely to marry was Lord Hirtlngton, and he was equally well aware that the future Duchess of Devonshire would not in any waj be In want of money. |