Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-06-09
THE IMPROMPTU MARRIAGE.

THE IMPROMPTU MARRIAGE.
For heavens sake, Susey, do be serious
II you can, for five minutes. Pray cease
this trtilng, which is but cruelty PLAYING
with my feelings, and let us treat this sub
Iject MS it deserves, soberly and seriously. ~
"Well, there then !" cried the laughing
girl, to whom Charles Westerly spoke
There IS that grave enough? See the cor
ners OF my mouth arc rolled up, and am
as sober as a patient who has caught sight
OF the dentists Instruments. DO | suit
you sol"
You suit me anyhow, and You know il
well, you witch - cried Charles, gazing
with smile, at the pretty face puckered
up in its aiiectation of Occurrences But
he was not to be driven from his point.
and he resumed gravely, after pause.
"Ihc time has come, Susy, when feel
have a right to demand an explicit answer
to my suit. You have trined with my
earnest feelings long enough. have
grown restless under my fetters."
"Shake them off then, Charley" inter-
rupted the saucy girl, with pretty defiant
of the head, which plainly said, 81 defy
you to do it,
81 cannot Susy, and you know it, re-
piled Charles impatiently.
"That being the case" said Susv, "takc
my advice, wear them gracefully, and don't
pull and jerk so it only Y makes them hurt
you.
The young man turned away, and walk.
ed silently up and down the room, cvi.
IDENTITY trothing and fuming internally.-
Susy, meantime, looked out of the window
and yawned. Charles continued his moo.
dy walk.
"Oh, what beautiful bird is on the Ii
lac tree !" cried Susy, suddenly. "Dc
come and look at ii"
Charles mechanically approached the
window and looked out.
Don't you think Charley, (said Susy
laying her hand on his arm, and looking
up eagerly in his face, (don't you think
you could manage to"
"What, Susy, dear asked Charles, al
his tenderness awakened by her manner,
what ?"
"Drop pinch of salt on his back, ire
turned the provoking girl, with an affecta
ton of simplicity; (for then you know
you could easily catch it !"
His answer was to turn angry away.
His walk this time was longer than be
fore, and his cogitations were more earn
est for he did not heed any of Susy's
artfully artless devices to allure his notice
At last he stopped abruptly before hel
and said:
"Susy, for three long years | have been
your suitor, without either confession OF
love or promise OF love on your part. OF
; ten rs | have demanded to know youi
sentiment towards me, you have alway,
coquettishly refused me an answer. This
state of things must cease. love you
better than my life but | will no longer
be your plaything. TO morrow you arc
going away to q distance, to be absent foi
months, and if you cannot this very day
throw aside your coquetry, and give me ar
/ honest yes for my answer, | shall
consider that have received a no. and
act accordingly"
"And how would that be- What would
you do ?" asked Miss Susy, curiously."
} "Begin by tearing your false and worth
less image from my heart !" cried Charles
furiously.
at would be a curious piece Of busines,
, Charley and you would not succeed ei
ther," said Susy.
II should and would succeed, CsaiC
, Charles as you shall see if you wish, cru
el heartless girl -
"But don't wish, Charley dear--I love
dearly to have you love me" said Susy.
"Why, then, (cried the foolish you'll
quite won over again, why, then, deares
Susy, will you not consent p
ttDo,,av,lar I cold | liEaJ IN la laval
} lreplied Susy.) | did not say any thins
? about loving. But pray how long did yoJ
say you had been courting me, in tina
pretty little speech of yours"
"Three long years, replied Charles.
Neatly and accurately quoted, Char
| ley.-But you know my cousin Rache
was only won after five years courtship.-
| You don't suppose | am going TO rate my
self any cheaper than she did, do you
Suppose we drop this tiresome subject 70
two years perhaps by that time ! may b
able to work myself up to the falling-in
love point-There's no knowing wha
wonders time may effect"
"If you are not in love now, you neve
P win be- (returned Charles sturdily y ant
! will have my answer now or never"
Y "Never, then" laughed Susy. But sh
had gone step too far Her often severe
r ly tried lover was now too much in earn
est to bear her triAing any longer
"Never be il then !" he cried and sei2
I ing his hat he strobe from the room.
Susy listenened TO his receding footstep
: with dismay. Had she, indeed, by he
ncorrigible love Of coquetry, lost him'