IN LOVE WITH HIS OWN WIFE.

Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 131, 12 January 1877, Page 3

IN LOVE WITH HIS OWN WIFE.

'--' A. ■ ' ' ' " *», I At the gaming table, the. jjDuke r of Richmond incurred a debt of" honor to Lord Cardigan which he was' unable to r pay,. and.it was agreed- that his son, a lad of filteen, who bore the ti.tle-.of .th.» : -y. Earl* of March, should., marry a still younger... daughter of Lord Cardigan, The boy was sent for from sclitfol, and the girl from the nursery, a clergyman was in attendance,- ami thechildren* „*. were told that they, were to be, married on the spot.; , The girl had nothing t0. ,, say 5 the boy .cried put, "they' surely ~ .a re no t goi ng ' to ' mar ry tn e > to" ' th at "dowdy?" "'But married- they AvereA A A postchaise was at the door,^the ,bri.de- ;- grobm was packed off with. his tutor to make the- grand tour, and. the .bride ... was sent back to her mother. Lord ' ' March' remained- abroad for several -• *- years, atter which he .returned' ---to'ui ; : London a well-educated, handsome . young man, but in no haste to meet his wife, whom. he. had , never seen, ' except, upon' the 'oct-Bsionbf their hftsty 0 marriage: : So- T he* tarried < -iti London to -amuse himself,; >;r One .night"; at* !the opera his attention was attracted- to a beautiful * l young- dady in the --06x68;' ' "Who is that ?" he asked of a gentleman beside- him-. -A' -You must, be . a , strariger in London," was the reply, ""' "not to know the toast 'of the town, : the beautiful Lady March;" The Earl went straight.., to the • box,. .an pounced himself, and claimed his bride. The two fell in love on the spot, and lived long and happily together, and' when A" the husband died she alsorJied. of ,a broken heart within a few months. '''•"' *''"■