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of these unions , Mrs Coutts ' s marriage to the Duke of St Albans , came the first under our notice ; and therefore we shall now conclude with some
general remarks on the spirit of this custom of wedding with the stage , and the light in which it ought to be regarded . And this simply concentrates itself , we conceive , into one point ; which is , that the theatrical world no more renders a
person unworthy of the highest and happiest fortune , if the individual has been unspoilt by it , than the world of fashion does . See what has transpired in the course of this article ,
respecting people of fashion , and what we shall proceed to notice respecting the persons concerned and their connexions , and let any one ask himself whether it would be fairer to say , "Don ' t take a wife or husband
from the stage / ' than " Don't take one from the world of fashion . " Mrs Bradshaw was of unexceptionable character ; Lady Peterborough was unexceptionable ; Beard was unexceptionable ; so was O ' Brien ,
for aught we know to the contrary ; so was Miss Linley , Miss Farren , Miss Brunton , Miss Seale , Miss Bolton , Miss O'Neil , Miss Tree . Really the stage , instead of a sorry
figure on these occasions , cuts , upon the whole , an excellent one ; and considering its comparative smallness , and inferior education , may put its fashionable friend on the defensive ! We have seen what sort of a character for " moral restraint "
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Lord Peterborough had , who , with all his valour , was so frightened at the idea of introducing an honest gentlewoman into the great world ! a world which would have made him
laugh in your teeth , if you had given it credit for any one virtue ! Yet so enormous was the honour to be bestowed on her by giving her his name , that it was hardly endurable to think of , and postponed till he stood
between heaven and earth , dying , and when it just became possible to see such distinctions in their true light , an Earl being , after all , " a little lower than the angels ! " One of Lord Peterborough ' s grandaunts was the Duchess of
Norfolk , who caused so much scandal in the year 1700 , and after her divorce married Sir John Germain , Bart ., a man so ignorant , that it was a joke against him in the fashionable world to
pretend that he left a legacy to Sir Matthew Decker , as believing him to be author of Matthew ' s gospel ! Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is scandalized at the
marriage of Lady Henrietta Herbert with Beard ; and contrives that the question shall be begfed against the bridegroom by er very descendant . But what sort of a life was Lady Mary ' s ! and how must the noble editor
have often felt in recording it ! What sort of language did she use t and what did she really think of those vivacities of temperament in other people and m her $ elf 9 which she assumes in the case of Lady Henrietta ,
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Marriages from the Stage * 173
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 173, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/29/
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