| Show death ot of a distinguished beauty lond london on correspondence ot of the tha new york tort times 1 one of the most distinguished beauties of english society has teen been prematurely snatched away by death within the last few days lady clementina villiers the second daughter of tho the earl of jersey has been for several years ears the most admired and sought after of tho the daughters of the aristocracy tho the greatest fortunes and some of the greatest titles in in the united kingdom hava been at her feet but as asis is well known she he retained her inflexible resolution not to accept any of them her affections were said to have been early won by a clergyman cleren an possessing but an incon inconsiderable sid erable benefice and not likely by his talents to obtain a more prominent position in in the church her w worldly and fashionable parents refused their assent to such a match and unlike her sister lady adela who ten years ego ago eloped with mill captain Ib bottson she continued to reside with her berents pe rent rents and to accompany her mother in in the incessant round of society in in which the old lady lives nor was her amiability limited to the too faithful performance of filial obligations when her brother the late ir member ember for rochester became so embarrassed as to be obliged to leave the country many of his outstanding engagements were brought up by his mother who as aa the heiress of 0 mr air child the banker still possessed poss eted a remnant of 0 her once splendid fortune tho the liabilities lie soon exhausted lady jerrys personal resources and lady clementina spontaneously resolved to devote many thousands of that which had bad been settled settle on herself to liquidate her brothers debts those who observed lier her gradually attenuated form and slowly fading beauty be iuta as year air atter after year ear he le ie turned to the j 0 less haunts of aristocratic frivolity fr iv and fashion could not but perceive 0 that however care might succeed in in preserving the lineaments linea ments of loveliness lov cliness the spirit within was perishing of loves sweet want the list last time I 1 stood near her was at a densely thronged thron ged assembly at one of those mansions mansions in in piccadilly famed for tho the brilliancy of its receptions she was dressed en suits suite in in bright blue and wore upon her head which was of exquisitely form a wreath of roses of the same ame color placed perfectly horizontally as you ou may sometimes see them worn by tho tyrolese peasants at their village festivals the grace and geniality of her demeanor as she swam lightly on from room to room with the passing recognition of a little word w ord for those slie she knew was as exquisite and apparently effortless as in in the sunniest funniest sun niest morning of her life but the gaiety of girlhood had passed away and the ambition of womanhood had not i ot come and it seemed to me often as she paused awaiting an opening in in the sometimes almost almo s t im impenetrable rAle crowd her eye ee acquired the tha abstracted loo look k a and n d her S statue like form tho the air air of immobility which belong belongs rather to a state of trance than to that of active life her eldest sister IV was s married some years ears ago to prince nicholas Ester esterhazy bazy she lived not very happily it is is said for about two years ani and then died after a short illness and now another is is added to the series series of blighted hopes with which the haughty selfish and v worthless orth less house of jersey has been visited |
