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The Daily Dispatch: March 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Von Straubensee held the highest social position. In this family she lived five or six weeks, during which time, with the sanction of the General and his wife, who supposed that his attentions to their ward were honorable, Major Yelverton constantly visited her, constantly proposed marriage, and was as constantly repelled by the lady, because she objected to secrecy, and insisted on a Catholic priest. In 1856, Miss Longworth returned to England, remained in Wales with her sister until February, 1857, and went from there to Edinburgh; where she moved in the first society. There Major Yelverton, who was stationed at Leith, again met her, and again proposed a secret marriage. The reasons he gave for not making the marriage public, were the same he had given in the Crimea, and amounted to nothing more than that he was poor and in debt, and that an uncle on whom he depended would cut him off if he knew it. On one occasion, in Edinburgh, he took a prayer-book and read over the service w