Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — Cervera’s Love Affair. [ARTICLE]

Cervera’s Love Affair.

Admiral Cervera when naval attach! at Washington nearly half a centurj ago had a love affair that Is well re membered In the capital. He becamt desperately enamored of a charming young lady, the only child of one of the proudest and haughtiest men who evei sat in the Senate of the United States, writes a correspondent. She was not only a Senator’s daughter, but as cold and proud as was her stately, aristocratic sire. Whether she smiled oi frowmed upon her picturesque, handsome Spanish lover cannot now be told In those days Cervera played the guitar with the grace of his race, and possessed an admirable light tenoi voice. At an evening reception given by Mrs. Fish, wife of the Secretary ol State, Cervera was asked to sing. He complied by fixing the attention ol everyone near upon his inamorata, as, gazing at her In the- most fervid manner, he made her a deep bow and burs! into the passionate measures of the most sensational of Spanish love songs, This was too much for the girl, and she quietly got out of the room and left the house.