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Show "VAMPS" WHO I I MADE HISTORY By JAMES C. YOUNG. lii by .ucClure Newspaper oyndicute.) A "MOST GORGEOUS" IRISH BEAUTY. WHEN we read the story of the vampire who devours men's hearts perhaps we should pause and wonder why she became a vampire. There was the case of "the most gorgeous gorge-ous Lady Blessingtou," as an imaginative imagin-ative admirer called her. But she was not born Lady Blessington, or Lady anything else. Her father was a drunken, roistering squire of Tipper-ary, Tipper-ary, and Marguerite one of seven children. chil-dren. He used to beat her with a heavy strap, and perhaps she was glad when he married her to a British army captain from the nearby garrison. This captain was a drunkard and half insane, in-sane, lie beat poor Marguerite worse than had her father. She fled to the parental roof, and the father ordered her back to the captain. Then Marguerite disappeared. Her career as a vampire had begun. We find her at twenty, one of the beauties of Dublin. Sir Thomas Lawrence minted a picture of her which made both famous. She had several lovers before meeting the earl of Blessing-ton, Blessing-ton, poor and mim of fashion, lie still held a large p;U't of a once vast estate. Blessington married her and they opened house- Ln St. James' square, London. In LS'J'J thje couple went to Paris, where she rait the Count d'Or-say, d'Or-say, then eighteen years o'd anil one of the talented diletlantes of the French capital. Marguerite was thirty-two. but they 5nsiantly loved. The count joined the two on their trip to Genoa. After romantic wanderings through Italy, Marguerite; came back to London. Lon-don. Then Ble.sslngton died, and she found herself iu straits. She turned to writing, for which she always had had some talent, :md met with at least a show of success. Her efforts servil to attract many iintables to her salon. She continued to live with d'Orsay, while Bulwer-Vytton, Di"!;ens, Thackeray, Thack-eray, Tom Move and Disraeli paid her court. The "Olrcek god" did not seem to care. Aiirtifig the visitors was Louis Napoleon, afie'rward Napoleon HI, then broke and without friends. Marguerite Mar-guerite entertained him well. But atlast;all of this line living ended end-ed in a crash. There still were debtors' debt-ors' prisons in England. Marguerite and d'Orsay saw lliem yawiiin:: just ahead. They owed more than .friixi.ouo. a huge sum then. It was impossible for them to leave the house except on Sundays, so many bailiffs waited about the dofir. Thea the- two escaped to Laris. Assuredly As-suredly Napoleon HI would help. But he had not "been called "Napoleon, th" Little," for nothing. He .showed them the door. Marguerite, past sixty, soon died. D'Ocsay followed her throe years later, and they sleep beneath one stone. |