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was current in the north of England that a young earl of one of the Border counties, in the course of his rambles, met with a beautiful gipsy girl whose charms made a deep and lasting im-pression on his heart. Upon entering into con-versation with her, he found to his surprise that the artless grace of her manners, and the intelli-gence and purity of her mind, were quite equal to the beauty of her face and person; and, in spite of the great disparity of rank, he soon became deeply enamoured of her. It may be supposed that the struggle between affection and pride was long and severe before the earl could make up his mind to ally himself to the humble object of his disinterested regard; but love finally triumphed. To increase, however, the romance of the story, it is added that the gipsy girl had been stolen in her infancy by one of the roving band with which she thus became associated, and that she was afterwards dis-covered to be the daughter of a wealthy baronet. The pride of her lover was thus spared the intended sacrifice in raising the beautiful gipsy to the rank of a countess.
Another, one time very popular, composition which was sung by all the prominent singers of the musical world, is " The Beating of my own Heart," written by the late Lord Houghton
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