Show love story froia the kw yerk world ae he society journals the other side of iho atlantic are just BOW entertaining time readers with of iho fatal influence e d over alexaner 11 by a certain at hie court who i aid to rule him to his ruin more cruelly and completely than Julie denar ruled his namesake name eake and predecessor de cessor it may be north vroile to reprint from a london newspaper not a society journal this romance of the emperors legitimate affection for the mary in 1831 when the present barwa twenty three years of ago a list was prepared at st petersburg of marri german princesses ses and under the care of count orloff the went to visit them lie biad been to berlin and the courts of karlh germany and was on his way to karlsruhe carlsruhe Carls when he arrived at frankfort the prince was about to resume hi journey when he received an invitation from the grand duke of to dine at the palace of darmstadt As a matter only the invitation was accepted and after dinner the court adjourned to another room for te there the russian in bearch of a a young lady of sixteen accompanied by her governess whose appearance wa charming in its simplicity that he enquired who she was the princes alary was the aughter of his host but ner name was not upon the st petersburg list presently the royal and imperial personages proceeded to the drawing room alexander asked to bo presented to the attractive girl and a long conversation with her confirmed hie first impressions next count orloff inferred infer med tho prince of the arrangements for proceeding to baden my dear count said the grand duke we shall go no further I hive made my choice auy ie finished had not how matters expostulate the ea of badaei had not been been and the of the princess mary of ileese was not on the liet alexander would go to karlsruhe carlsruhe Carls f politeness required but he had made up his mind to marry none other than the prince mary when the readied st petersburg the entourage of the emperor endeavored to pre vent this marriage but nicholas was tenderly attached to his son and would not allo him to be thwarted in an affair of the heart an old diplomatist the count de refset reiset ells this atory in hie unpublished ine moin |