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daughter Parones ours. Baron Vrints was as dull as his wife was the reverse,and on that account perhaps Baron Dornberg was never seen out of her company , though as far as [ could judge he was not partic- larly interesting either. Baron Dornbersg was'Post Master ” ' 's General’ of Germany then they yielded ae o a ° Baroness Vrints' unmarried daughter N@lie was the belle of the town and all the young Attachés were at her feet -none more devotedly than Mr X. of the English Legation , to whom in defiance of her Mother's wish , she plighted her troth . The Baroness considered him too impecunious and of not sufficiently fi high rank to aspire to the hand of her daughter and finally orbade him the house. He subsequently became accredited as ih ih inister to a Foreign Court, and Miss Nélie remained single for H : ie) nany a long year , eventually bestowing herself on a Hungarian eH = IN | | Fe a yentieman who was not much wealthier or nobler than her former iat suitor, Miss Nélie had a graceful figure,goliden hair,fair com- re i A plexion and blue She looked , or a horse , and my Prank? ort Ss Charles Bethmann were near neighbours of ct » Which in common wi belonzged to Prince Thurn and Taxis Olossal revenue 1 eyes ; charms of which she was not unconscious. rather imagined she looked particularly well on eldest Sister often went out riding with her, carefully dressed in the height of the then , out now obsolete fashion ,which Queen Victoria's portrait by Vinterhalter has rendered historic and familiar. I could give an account of many of the other notabilit- les of the day , but their feme was so transient that it would be futile to give them even a short noti r I prefer to