A ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE.

Lake County Press, Issue 2114, 12 April 1906, Page 2

A ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE.

There is ;i curious story told of | iii.i of i lie Duke ni' Uicliinoml'fi for- ! tears, who was summoned from ] school to rii.ii (\ tln Lady Sarah ! , ( 'alloxan -t Ih-II ,1 mere fill 111 -I he | daughter of thai Lord ('ailognn who I iiis' 1 ~uuish'-il hiitisi'lf in the Duke of I M»>lljorough's wars. 'l'll.' ho\, III" Karl ,f March, upon being run from id with Ihe girl w Imni la* had | never before seen mid p.-r.-ui|»l oril.v | I old he ni'i.-t marry her Lln-ii and : there, cM-laim.-d : "Whai ' Marry | ili.ii dowdy !" Whai Ihe girl's impr< ssioits of 1h" | iingnllaiit lirid.'(.-nui 111 were we are j not told. Alt.r tin- ceremony was over I la" yuiini; Karl was |>ni-L«"H oil I o make a "jiraial 1 oar " <■' it hj his luloi-, and the lirid'" was ciumnittpd to 1 hi> car ' her 11101 her—a Dutchwoman. Al'ti'i- som«' years spoil abroad, Lord March ivtiinird to Kngland. an accomplished young man. happy in everything. I'm with a haunliiig memory of his "dole-stable marriage." ,\\ aMV rat'' he delcrmiii'-d to have his (lin.tr in London before he settled down to a life-long companionship with that ugly, dowdy, awkward girl Accordingly ha attended every theatre, and annm-- the rest the. Opera Mouse. where, between the acts he was smitten by the charms of ih,. most lovely girl he had ever s ,.(> n . |f only he were a bachelor ! I'resenlly he turned to the gentleman beside him. "Who is that lovelv oici i n ("he si age-box ?" "My ,i,...,,'• S i r .-- ,-,. plied the gentleman he addressed, "yon inusl be a stranger in London if you do not know (he (nasi of the town —•Tlie lovely Lady March.' " Lady March ! His own wife—'•thai dowdy " of four years ago ! II is well lo he able to write such a story— "and they lived happy ever after." ■ r