Peasant Girl’s Romance.
BATTLEFIELD MESSAGE. The story of the romance of a Swiss peasant girl and an English officer is told in the Swiss press. Ten years ago the girl, a native of Canton Tessin, was employed at an hotel in the Bernese Oberland as an ironer in the laundry. Her beauty attracted the attention of the visitors, one of whom, the son of a London banker, fell in love with her, and they became engaged. The father refused to entertain the idea of such a match, called his son home, and thought to smooth the laundrymaid with a cheque for £2OO, which was refused. The young man wrote promising never to marry anyone but her, but expressed himself unable to defy his parents. A short time ago the laundrymaid, who is now 28 years old, was astonished to receive a solicitor’s letter stating that an English officer who had been killed in Belgium had left her the sum of £4OOO. It was her lover, who, faced with death in the war, had not forgotten his sweetheart, although ten years had fallen between their romance
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 16 July 1915, Page 3
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185Peasant Girl’s Romance. Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 16 July 1915, Page 3
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