Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-01-16
BEAUTY vS. UGLINESS.
One Time When tine Latter Had Very
 Much the Better of 1t.

One Time When tine Latter Had Very
 Much the Better of 1t.
 The late Lord Pembroke was one of the most eccentric of men, and his vagal-es sonie- times made one doubt his sanity. Some forty years ago Doche, tho great French actress. was at the zenith of her beauty and fame, and all London had gone mad about her. Both Louis Napoleon-afterward Napoleon Hand 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; "I cannot marry you, because my name does not belong to me, but to dynasty; nor car afford to lav ish so much money on you as Lord Pembroke can; but I can tell you what 1 will do if you will consent to re- fuse his suit. I will promise you never to marry, even if become emperor, and will settle g1 900 year on you for life now, and make you a countess and millionaire if ever 1 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 a thousand pounds, and double that sum, would slip through her fingers in week. So she said no, and gave Lord Pembroke to un derstand that if he were inclined to be gen. erous, she might not turn deaf ear to his sighs. The capricious Frenchwoman had, however, heard of the extravaganza of the lazy English milford, !" whom she knew to be madly in love with her, so she thought it polite to play fast and loose with him, in hopes that he would, in moment of passion ate exasperation, 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 supper, and always at the last moment send l an excuse At last," Lord Pembroke one day said to the late Lord Clanricarde, who used to tell the story, "I am tired of this folly. l am giving supper to night at Rich mond, and l have invited Doche. If she comes before II I will give her 910,000; if she comes before 12 will give her e2, ,O00 but if she comes after 12 I won't recieve her. and if she does not come at all I will give to- morrow e2OOO0 to the ugliest woman in London and the one our Doche hates the | most-Schaeffer, the dauseuse."
 Doche never came to the supper, so the fol 1 lowing morning Lord Pembroke sent one 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 | 920,OOO to Mlle Schaeffer, and as he knew l Mile. Doche was connoisseur In diamonds, l he would be obliged if she would select up to l that amount such stones as she might think | would suit her friend. Doche, when she had
 
 uation, boxed the jewellers ears and had hys- | terics. But this did not prevent the trades man from elambering up the four pairs of stairs of little house in Leicester square, where he found Mile. Schaeffer washing her stockings, and telling her of the golden shower which was about to fall upon her. She 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 Montgomerie" Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery), the members of which arc well known in the Thigh lifen of the French capital, is the result of this strange infatua tion. 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 o1 Europe; had she not trihed with the Englisl earl it certainly would have made a con siderable difference in his fortune.-Tow1 T0DicS