Show A blackguard notwithstanding i some weeks ngo ago it at a 11 time when ethcie a seemed to be no immediate prospect of I 1 mr edward langloys Langl rys death wo we took occasion to comment upon lit hl conduct n with ith reference terence re to his 1 wife ire and to express the opinion that he vaa nas perhaps lite hie most unmitigated cad of whom wo we had knowledge or report opinion was based baand as now appears upon very imperfect informs lion as to the mans character and actions wo lve had in ili tart fart only his account of 0 himself to go upon and we were nere in the dark as aa to many circum stances calculated to illustrate ills hla true Inward inwardness newis now how tl ti lt at langtry has died however howett r and the real beal ot of silence ellace has been broken we hear from birs Ian lawyers many things which the rho had previously out of 0 puro pure consideration for or ills feelings kept inviolate we licar hear in fact that throughout all the lie period of their separation the husband drew from hla his alfes estate a regular allowance that while he be was abusing and aid maligning mali gning tier her and intimating thi the vlist and most moat abominable charges against tier lier character lie he was partly it if not wholly on her blunty when he mado those charges and u when ben we knew nothing of him blin except that he wait wa a man assailing anil and disparaging the one woman in tho the world who should be sacred from his til assaults oa N B e denounced him so aa a aco jn brn anil and I a end cad now that we wc w c have bave heard board more and know that thai he was all the time receiving I a pension from his wite we ave ki know iv that our denunciation oot of him was not nearly as emphatic ni as n i it might have benit there be in all the world a creature more contemptible than he who casts aspersions aper lonii upon the m alte ire or of his bollhorn and the hie mother of hl hit child it li 14 lie he who nho does all ail tills this while he la Is accepting money from the victim loth of his cowardly and base detraction L lidward d w rd langtry appears it to have be been ell g of 0 tills this loathsome offen tanne and iffe it we have erred in 9 of 0 him it has haa been upon the side of 0 leniency much hits has been said bald and written of 0 bills langtry Mora moralists lists and preachers have shot their little barbs at tier and drawn cheap lessons from her life ike she has been I a target for or every narrow prig and self complacent lecturer sho she has ban furnished precepts for ten tell thou bond contented smirking ho milies tile the sermons chat have ave been delivered upon that text would load a ship the petty maxims maxima based upon her life bould be I a treasury but compared tho the ra meanne c annessi iw and degradation of tho the man who hale while drawing an annuity from roin her indulgence lioa has sought to blacken ire her 11 in the worlds esteem by every imaginable agi accusation find and innuendo she ls li whiter matter than the driven snow fairer than Ast artes chining brow she Is a thing thine of 0 trivial dilloo s contrasted cont ratel 1 with it K a monster ot of wickedness anti ami infamy her error are as a irk in alm fit light of 0 hla his surpassing ine mean anneM nests suppose the lie worst of her and ye yet t she ehe dijt U a miracle of gentleness and grace compared with tho the renegade it ho he once called her lite hl m mite ire we are out of patience with the be hypocrisy milich alch tells us to speak kindly alna alwais of it decem to us that I 1 hen a man leads a long lite life of degradation filling his every day with tho the wIt detestable testable and the abi odious delighting in ili ignoble Iff noble and mean things arid and baill baili ing ine his ery aitery soul in con cowardice ardice and treachery Ty lt it seems beems to us that such j plan nun should iw he treated by the tha measure nie asuro of his hl deserts alii the th lat last deed lii is duno done and his its record lies unrolled before us the only service he c can a n b be e made to perform for hla his generation la Is that of an object lesson and a warning I 1 etuin ui that find and lite hl lite life liaa haz been an 11 injury indeed far our part wo we shall ahall decline the parry borry role of d deceit and condonation the only dif differed feren cis between edward langtry of 0 three months ago anti anil t the lie edward langtry I ansley of today is that then he was waa a 11 ving living cad and now lie he la is a dead one washington post |