Show Mysterious Love Affairs Thackeray T and Mrs Brookfield IT IS cas easy enough h to feel Ceel that when I IT the last knight in armor rode rodo down downto to tho the turn In the road to vanish In the dUn dim lm maze mazo of history when tho the thelast last JURt sword sord was as unbuckled and lal laid awn away In the tho attic chivalry and romance went vent w with them thorn The Tho mo may ma have departed anti and no longer stays stas with sith us in the bright ht day a world orld of oC toda toda today to- to da day but chivalry and romance will Domain re remain tem te- te m main ln as os lon long as hl high h think thinking In pure living and noble Ideas Idea sway say awa mens men's actions ac ac- ac- ac ti 0 n s. s Ono One of ot tho the noblest love lovo affairs that tho world ever know knew was lived out Inthe In Inthe the tho heart henrt of or dreary rainy London Lon on mid Victorian London the London tho last spot In all the where romance would woul bo ho expected Thackeray's life had been hoen ono one of ot ofa va- va various various arlous rious fluctuations of or fortunes lie He ha had hod heil an on excellent Income but after atter helot ho he lot loft Cambridge university and was about twenty-three twenty years an of ago age a o It was lost to him by tho the failure allure of or tho Indian bank brink In which his stepfather had hind Invested in invested invested in- in vested it foi tOl him he was still n a boy Tho The loss of oC his money mone forced him Into writing as 08 a i means of oC making his living Thackeray was as A it largo large man mon standing over six nix Ix feet fet broad bron shouldered broad cheated and with an Indescribable ar Mr arof aroC of oC power a power A man of or tender heart hart keen sen sensibilities und and strong friendships friendships- one who as fiS he said Sail of ot himself could not live IV without the tenderness of ot woman wo wo- vo- vo 1 man In 1836 ho he met fell foil In love lore with andI and almost Immediately toh married Miss tea lei belli bella Shawe a 0 girl o ot of twenty By D 1839 I Mrs Thackeray was as in an nn insane insano as- as hun hum leaving Thackeray a pathetic figure figure fig fig- ure tire with two charming charming- girls For Tor years ears he lived ed in a II sort of oC Bohemian land Janil of artists until about ten years cars later whoa when his first famous ramous novel was published there thero came to him his ono great reat lovo love affair To A 0 man of at smaller soul this love lo would have o brought but hut bitterness and ad keen pain but Thackeray It guided In Into Into into In- In to an earthly paradise and his troUbled troubled troubled trou trou- bled heart and weary brain wore were rested rested rest rest- ed and comforted b by the strong frIendship friendship friendship friend frIend- ship tho the perfect understanding of or Mrs Irs Brookfield tho the wife of oC the no Rev William Brookfield one of at his oldest friends It ls Is not hot known whether Mrs Brookfield Brookfield Brookfield Brook- Brook field over knew the love lovo Thackeray hold for her hor If It she sho did It was only her hor womans woman's Intuition that told her of oC It for ho lie POlO bore himself toward her alwa's alwa's al always al- al was wa's as a 0 sincere friend with sith no hint of the deeper feeling Naturally hints and rumors came Then hen an nn Intimation was vas convoyed conveyed to Thackeray that his visits to Mrs Irs Brookfield ought to cease It was then that Thackeray showed himself to be the tho high born man of oC honor Ho He wrote his old friend A letter latter In which ho did not conc conceal al an iota lota of ot the tho truth nUll nail admitted his love lo for tor Mrs 1 Brookfield But ho also added that his faith to his friend was wa AS loyal loal as his lOVE lovo for Cor his friends friend's wife WAS deep deop And he asked If it ho he might still come conic to that friends friend's house and have ha havethe havethe the comfort and tho the brightness Mrs could give gho to him if It no hint of at his love 6 to pass his lips or sign In nn any wa Va betray him Brookfield trusted both his wife and his friend absolute absolutely Thackeray came came- and went as ai n over ever finding tho the Joy of oC life lIro In Mrs Ira presence He lIe wrote to her continually as he hall hail before graceful before graceful friendly Intellectual letters lotters IIi His word was Wai never broken to the tho friend who had trusted him He proved worth worth of the hii h honor which had been given him and ancl when ho died at tho thc n Age e of ot two fifty ho lie possessed possesse the consciousness that he ho had acted the part of oC a man of oC honor |