Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1883 — Pleasant Romance. [ARTICLE]

Pleasant Romance.

Lady Sarah Cadogan, daughter of Earl Cadogan, aged 13, was married to the Duke of Richmond, aged 18. The marriage was a bargain to cancel a gambling debt between their parents, Lady Sarah being a co-heiress. The youth, the Lord March, was brought from college and the little lady from the nursery for the marriage, which took place at the Hague. The bride was amazed and silent, but the husband exclaimed: “Surely you are not going to marry me to that dowdy.” Then his tutor took him off to the continent and the bride went back to her mother. Three years later Lord March returned from his travels, but, having such a disagreeable recollection of his wife, was in no hurry to join her, and went the first evening to the theater. There he saw a lady so beautiful that he asked who she was. “The reigning toast, Lady March,” was the answer. He at once claimed her, and their lifelong affection is spoken of as a romance.