IN LOVE WITH HIS OWN WIFE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2510, 22 January 1877, Page 3

IN LOVE WITH HIS OWN WIFE.

At the gaming table, the Duke of Richmond incurred a debt of honor to Lord Cardigan which he was unable to pay, and it was agreed that his son, a lad of fifteen, who bore the title of the Earl of March, should marry a still younger daughter of Lord Cardigan. The boy was sent for from school, and the girl from the nursery, a clergyman was in atteadance, and the children were told that they were to be marriec? on the spot. The girl had nothing to say; the boy cried out, " they surely are not going to marry me to that dowdy ? " But married they were. A postchaise was at the. door, the bridegroom 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 yeats, after which he returned to London a well-educated, handsome young man, but in no haste to meet hi 3 wife whom he had never seen, except upon the occasion of their hasty marriage. So he tarried in London to amuse himself. One night at the opera his attention was attracted to a beautiful joung lady in the boxf.s. •• Who is that ? " he asked of a gentleman beside him, " You must be a stranger in London," was the reply, " not to know the toast of the town, the beautiful " Lady March." The Earl went straight to the box, announced himself, and claimed his bride. The two fell in love on the spot, and lived long and happily together, and when the husband died she also died of a broken heart within a few months.