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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Strangely romantic story. (search)
Strangely romantic story. John N. Fenwick, bart., now of Fenwick Hall, England, is the subject of a strangely romantic story in the Chicago Democrat, from which we condense an account of the fortunes and misfortunes connected with his wanderings throughout the world. The account says: He is the child of Sir John N. Fenwick, who, in 1837, married Clara Seymour, a poor clergyman's daughter, against the wishes of his two sisters. The latter revenged themselves by falsely accusing Lady Fenwick of infidelity with a certain French Count, whom Sir John had introduced to her at Venice during the honeymoon. Lady Clara swooned at the charge, and her husband, completely carried away by passion, and convinced that the story told him by his sisters was true, ordered her and the boy to be expelled from the hall, and immediately hurried to the seaboard and embarked for the continent. The unfortunate wife became insane, passed some time in an asylum, ultimately recovering under the