The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1878-11-06

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things stood until two years ago,
when Miss Yznaga was twenty-seven
years old. Not that she looked old,
but she had reached the top round of
maidenhood and was soon to pass
down the other side. Her intimate
friends knew this and often wondered
to themselves what would become
of her if her beauty should fade be-
fore her charming face could win a
husband.
So l say What will become of
Miss Yznaga ?"was question begin.
ming to be asked by the members of
the Knickerbocker club.
Just then young Vaudeville, the
second son of Lord Vaudeville, the
duke of Manchester, appeared in New
York. He was a green looking, red
haired STRIPPING Of twenty-one. Even
the boys in the street made fun of
him. They Knocked his voice and
laughed at his ugly English clothes.
l remember seeing him one morning
at the stables back of the Knicker-
booker club, dressed in Jockeys tights
and wearing ajockey's hat. He was
half horse and the rest dog-as ready
to ride in hurdle race as he was to
hunt foxes in New Jersey. He was
a glorious fellow among the boys.
That is, he spent all the money he
could get from his father or borrow
from his friends. !8.ai9I aoiig.J5 :
Many times young Vaudeville ran
entirely out OF money. His father
had ordered him home and refused to
remit. Belmont knew he was the
son of the duke of Manchester, and,
however extravagant, he and Bennett
lent him all the money he wanted.
Young Vaudeville acted so queer
that several newspapers pronounced
him a humbug, fraud and a bogus
lord. Still the Knickerbocker club
fellows stood by him.
Many young ladies, not up in the
peerage made itln of the green young
Englishman, too, but not so with Miss
Yznaga. She laid herself out to catch
him. Beautiful and a charming talk
er, she soon won the affection of
Vaudeville. The Knicker6ocker
club fellows, with Mrs. Stevens, did
all they could to help her. They got
/ up polo and coaching parties, giving
I Young ~5fa1asl4ese, 4l4S. fs.dnf. saaf witt
the beautiful Cnban's praises at every
turn. When Lord Vaudeville again
ordered his son home and cut off his
remittances, Belmont and Bennett
told him to draw on them for any
amount. and he did. aa4u
So things went on for a month
Miss Yznaga was always entertaining
and he was ever at her side.
Finally, when the leaves began to
turn red in the park, it began to be
whispered around that another young
lady was about to throw herself away
onra titled Englishman.
" I know he's a fraud-this Lord
Z Vaudeville !! " was often said impetu
ously by young ladies not up in the
peerage.
Later in the fall, when the red
leaves began to tumble off in the
park, the engagement between Miss
Yznaga and Lord Vaudeville was
announced. The young lord was
fairly caught by the beautiful Cuban
and to let him return to England to
meet his father, the naughty duke Of
Manchester, would be a foolish thing
indeed. So it was arranged that The
wedding should come off within a
month. In the meantime coaching
and polo parties kept Lord Mande-
vile and Miss Yznasa almost con.
stantly together and he the most de-
voted of lovers.
1t was a great thing to be the
fiancee of the second son OF the great
Duke of Manchester, and the news
papers teemed with saucy paragraphs
about the good fortune OF the beauti.
ful Cuban.
About this time, when Miss Yzna
ga was wearing the engagement ring,
financial troubles arose.
The young lady's parents were
poor. They lived in a plain house in
an questionable street. They did
not even have money enough to
make an ordinary fashionable wedding
much less wedding grand enough
for the duke. 1cdj a1gq' tt.r,-
g What shall we do 2" they said.
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