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Show DISPLEASED DUDE. .Threaten, to Sail Across the Deep and Go hto Law By . Wholesale. ' jg, FRANK LESLIE'S ADMIRES. le Lady Does Not Take Much Stock in the Threats of the Indignant j Marquis. ' wTowc JulySl New York soils so-ils all torn up today. 6vor the pub-"I pub-"I to the followiug' dispatch : said to . been received by Mrs. Frank e from the Marquis de Leuville: ; Such a host of abominable and in-Aus in-Aus falsehoods from America hare Id me to Mil for New York with, liter to enter actions. I cannot i be-,ve be-,ve that you have circulated these PIrf Leslie was disinclined to' make nV uositive statement concerning her " sont relations with the Marquis de urillc but she admitted that her dement made shortly after her recent rivu from Europe "that she had no resent intention of marrying anybody" :is true. , She said that sho had received word m the marquis informing her of his mention to come to this country for ,e purpose of engaging in a big legal wabble with the newspapers, and she itiinated that the marquis would probity prob-ity think better of this later on and av at home. -I do not wish," said Mrs. Leslie, "to lir anything that will in any way ii'ibainiss the marquis or cause Im pain. He has just come through troublesome suit which might have suited in his imprisonment if it had one against him, and he suffers acutely t times from spasmodic asthma. Why, have seen him tho life and soul of an lening parly, laughing, jesting ad dancing, when suddenly ;he ..mid be compelled to lean against ie wall for support and clutch Is throat quito desperately for breath, be marquis is the strongest man I ever iw, but he is not sound. Oh, yes; we ore engaged once," said Mrs. Leslie, mling archly, "but that was long ago ud was published at the time and ilked about a great deal. It was eight r ten years ago, when I had been a idow less than a year that he proved pro-ved to me. I cannot begin to tell ow considerate he was of me when 1 ild him that I was only a poor, bard-orking bard-orking woman and was the possessor f nothing except a great many debts. Ie used to say that all he wanted was ie, and that if I would marry him we nu!d go to Europe and have a good me. ' : "Why," said Mrs. Leslie, with great arnestness, "there could be no mistak-ig mistak-ig his disinterestedness for me, for hen I was sick with the black measles, ud was blind for three weeks, he used i sit in front of the door of my room, nxiously waiting to hear from me. inally, when I felt I had a good pros-ect pros-ect of getting along and succeeding in ie task I had undertaken, and build-ig build-ig up the work done by my late hus-aud, hus-aud, Lsent a cablegram to the mar-ids mar-ids telling him to come over ' here and would marry him. This was about ve years ago, and he immediately came 1 this country. He remained here 11 maths, and was with me every everi-ig everi-ig during that time, except two, when e attended dinners given in his houor y the Havemeyers. He used to come 're at 11 o'clock on Sundays aud regain re-gain until 11 o'clock at night and in all l it time he never bored me for one inute. The marquis is a finely edu-atedman. edu-atedman. He speaks five languages ud so do I. Sometimes we would wud the time in reading to each other ! the various languages. The marquis indeed a cultivator! man. He writes ery clever verse and he paints ravish-'gly. ravish-'gly. Indeed, his paintiugs are note-rthy." note-rthy." Mrs, Leslie showed the reporter two indseape paintings that occupy promi-"Ot promi-"Ot places in 'the parlor, and which, e said, were the work of the marquis. Mrs. Leslie was asked whether the Hers in the possession of tho marquis' wyer were written by her. "They iay have been," she replied, "for while was engaged to the marquis I wrote 'in many tender letters, for I way very ml of him and not one of these letters m 1 ashamed of, for I am certain that e.y are all perfect both in grammar "d construction." |