The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1889-02-06
BEAUTY vs.. ueLiNEss.
One Tire when the Latter HAD Very
Much tho Better OF It.


Much tho Better OF It.
Tho late Lord Pembroke was one Of tho
most eccentric OF men, and his vngaries some
times made ono doubt his sanity Some forty
years ago Doche, the great French actress,
was at the zenith Of her beauty and fame,
and all London had gono taad about her.
Both Louis Napoleon-afterward Napoleon
nI-and the late Lord Pembroke were In
love with her, and it Is recorded that the fair
enchantress did not know which to choose.
"You must do as you like, of COURSE said
the prince; II cannot marry you, because my
name does not belong to mo, but to dynasty;
nor can afford to lavish SO much money on
you as Lord Pembroke can; but | can tell
you what will do il you viii consent to re-
fuse his suit l win promise you never TO
marry, even II become emperor, and viii
settle 81 900 a year on you for life now, and
make you a countess and millionaire If over
become emperor"
That was not good enough for Doche, who
had no belief In the imperial dreams, and who
gambled to such a terrible extent that q
thousand pounds, and double that sum,
would slip through her fingers In a week. So
she said no, and gave Lord Pembroke to UNI
derstand that II he were inclined to be gen.
efcus, she might not turn deaf ear 70 his
signs The capricious Frenchwoman had,
however, heard Of the extravaganza Of tho
lazy English ''milord. whom she knew to be
mndly In love with her, SO she thought It
polite to play fast and loose with him. In
hopes that he would, In a moment of passion
ate evaporation, lay something like half
his fortune at her feet
She went too far, however. Day after day
she would accept his lordship's invitations to
an excuse AT last" Lord Pembroke one
day said TO the late Lord Clanricarde, who
used to tell the story, II am tired of this
folly. am giving supper to night at Rich
mond, and | have invited Doche. IL she
comes before II will give her 10000; II
she comes before ~ will give her 81 900
but II she comes after IL won't reciove her
and II she does not come at all will give to-
morrow &2O,0O0 to the ugliest woman In
London, and the one our Doche hates tho
most--Schaeffer, the dauseuse.p
Doche never came to the supper, SO tho fol-
lowing morning Lord Pembroke sent ono of
the leading Bond street jewellers to her house
with the message that as his lordship had de
cided on offering diamonds to the amount OF
En-, 600 to Mile. Schaeffer, and as he knew
Nile. Doche was connoisseur In diamonds
he would be obliged II she would select up to
that amount such stones us she might think
would suit her friend. Doche, when she had
heard the man out and fairly grasped the sit.
uation, boxed the jewelers. ears and had hys-
terics But this did not prevent tho trades
man from clambering up the four pnirs of
stairs OF a little house In Leicester square,
| where no found Mile Schaeffer washing her
stockings, and telling her of the golden shower
| which was about to fall upon her. Shc
tainted
Schaeffer was hideously ugly and very
stupid, but she managed to entangle Lord
Pembrokes heart, somehow, and he gave her
all the money he could, and had not the prop
erty been entailed would have given her
everything. A distinguished French family,
"De Montgomerien dsarl Of Pembroke and
Montgomery, the members OF which arc
veil known in tho "high life'' OF the French
capital, is the result of this strange infatua-
ton. So poor Doche lost both her French
and English lover Had she accepted Prince
Louis Napoleon's offer It might, perhaps,
have made difference today In the map Of
Europe; had she not trified with the English
earl 1t certainly would have made a con-
siderable difference in his fortune. Town
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