Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-11
BEAUTY VS.. UGLINBSS.
A Lows GAME TOO SHARP FOR
SUCCESS.
How the Famous Mile. Doche Failed
10 Catch Lord Pembroke, and
Lost Napoleon III.

The late Lord Pembroke was one of the
most eccentric of men, and his vagaries
sometimes made one doubt his sanity. saws
Torn Topics. Some forty years ago Doche.
the great French actress, was at the zenith
of her beauty and fame, and all London
had gone mad about her Both Louis Ma
poleon-afterward Napoleon III.-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
" | cannot marry YOU because my name does
not belong to me, but to dynasty; nor
can | afford to lavish so much money on
you as Lord Pembroke can; but can tell
you what l will do if you consent to refuse
his suit. will promise never to marry,
even if | become Emperor, and will
settle 81 900 a year on you for life now,
and make you Countess and millionaire
if ever | 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 thousand pounds, and double that
sum, would slip through her fingers in
week. So she said no, and gave Lord
Pembroke TO understand that if he were
inclined to he generous, she might not
turn deaf ear to his sighs. The capri
cious Frenchwoman had, however, heard
of the extravaganza of the English
MILFORD" whom she knew to be madly in
love with her, so she thought it polite to
play fast and loose with him, inhopes that
he would, in moment of evaporation,
lay something like half his fortune at her
feet
She went too far, however. Day after
| day she would accept his lordship's invita-
tions to supper, and always at the last mo-
ment send an excuse. 'At last" lord
Pembroke one day said to the late Lord
! Clanricade, who used to tell the story, 'l
am tired Of this folly. | am giving sup
per tonight at Richmond, and have in
vited Doche. If she comes before II | will
give her 10000; if she comes before u /
will give her $4,000, but if she comes after
| II won't receive her, and, if she does not
come at all, will give 100000 to the ug
liest woman in London, and the one our
Doche hates the most-Schaefier. the
danseuse."
Doche never came to the supper, so the
following morning Lord Pembroke sent
one of the leading Bond-street jewellers TO
her house with the message that as his
Lordship had decided on offering dia-
monds to the amount of e20,000to Mile
Schaeffer, and as he knew Mile. Doche
was connoisseur in diamonds, he would
be obliged if she would select up to that
amount such stones as she might think
would suit her friend. Doche, when she
had heard the man out fairly grasped
situation, boxed the jewelers. ears and had
Mysteries. But this did not prevent the
tradesman from clambering up the four
pairs of stairs of little house in Leicester
square, where he found Mile. Schaeiier
washing her stockings, and telling her Of
the golden shower which was about to fall
upon her She tainted
Schaeter 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 property been entailed, would haye
given her everything 4 distinguished
French family, "De Montgomerie7 Carl
of Pembroke and Montgomery, the MEM
bers of which ave well known in the "hieh
life" of the French Capital, is the result OF
this strange infatuation. So poor Doehe-
lost both her French and English lover Z
Had she accepted Prince Louis Napoleon's
offer ii might, perhaps, have made DIFF
ference to-day in the map of Europe had
she not trifled with the English Earl. it
certainly would have made considerable
difference in his fortune.