| Show some celebrated len who married tbell servant many celebrated men have married domestic servanda ser vanta sir henry parkas of kew south wales Is an example one night when dining at a friends bouso he was struck by the appearance of a servant girl who waited upon the table and persuaded his host to allow her to enter his employ this ehe did and tor a short time bel the position of cook in sir henrys household then be made her lady parkes but more illustrious than this la tho case of peter the great one day ho waa dining at the house of prince men koff he noticed one of the servant maids particularly and though aba was not handsome she caught his fancy her name the prince told the czar was martha she bad been a servant in the bouse of a lutheran minister of marsenburg marienburg Mari enburg and when that city was captured by the troops of russia sho had been taken prisoner by general bauer who had passed her over to tho prince whose servant abo was the count politely made a present of her to the conr who eventually married her william cobbett the great writer when be was only twenty one years of age one morning chanced to see a buxom servant girl busily engaged in washing the family linen the girl was pretty BO cobbett spoke to her learned her name and the same evening called upon her parents and said bo would like to marry their daughter the parents of the girl informed the young man that they had no objections to him as their son in law but that he would have to wait until their daughter was of a marriageable age five years later cobbett truo to bis early love married her |
