Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-14
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The late Lord Pembroke was one of the
most eccentric of men, and his vagaries some
times made one 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 gone mad about her.
Both Louis Napoleon-efterward 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; II cannot marry you because my
name does not belong to me, but to a dynasty !;
nor can | afford to lavish so much money on
you as Lord Pembroke can, but | can tell
you what | will do if you will consent to re-
fuse his suit l viii promise you never to
marry, even If become emperor, and will
settle el 600 year on you for life now, and
make you a countess and a millionaire if ever
become emperor"
That was not good enough for Doche, who
had no belief in the imperial dreams, and who
gaInbled to such a terrible extent that a
thousand pounds, and double that sum,
would slip through her fingers in a week. So
she said no. and gave Lord Pembroke to I'M
derstand that If he were inclined to be gen.
erous, she might not turn deaf ear to his
signs. 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 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 lordships invitations to
supper, and always at the last moment send
an excuse. AT last Lord Pembroke one
day said to the late Lord Clanricarde. who
used to tell the story, Il am tired of this
folly. am giving supper to night at Rich
mond, and | have invited Doche. Ii she
comes before IL | will give her 10000; if
she comes before II | will give her $4,000,
but if she comes after IL won't receive her,
and if she does not come at all | will give to-
morrow 100000 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
lowing morning Lord Pembroke sent one of
the leading Bond street jewelers. to-her house
with the message that as his lorClship had de
cided on offering diamonds to the amount of
EGO, 600 to Mile. Schaeffer, and as he knew
Mile. Doche was connoisseur in diamonds.
ne would Dc Obliged II 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 and fairly grasped the sit
uation, boxed the jewelers. ears and had hys-
terics But this did not prevent the trades
man from clambering 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
Pembroke's 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 are
well known in the thigh 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 triHed with the English
earl it certainly would have made a con-
siderable difference in his fortune-Town
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