Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-03-25

| THE IMPROMPTU MARRIAGE.
.sFor Heavens sake, Susy, do be seriou
if you can, for five minutes. Pray ceas
this trifing, which is but cruel playing wit
my feelings, and let US treat this subject &
4 it deserves. soberly and Seriously
well, there, then!' cried the laughing
blackeyed girl, to whom Charles Westdil
spoke. There, is that grave enough! SEE
the corners of nay mouth are duly turDe
down, my eyes are rolled up, aud am sobe
as patient who has caught sight of den
lists instrument. Do 1 suit you!'
sYou suit me anyhow, and you know
well, you witch!' cried Charles, gazing wit
a smile. at the pretty face puckered up in it
sffectation OF occurrences.
! Bot he was not to be driven from bis poin
and he resumed, gravely, after pause, 'Th
time has come, Susy, when feel have
| right to demand an explicit answer to m,
suit. You have trifed with my feeling
quite enough. have grown restless unde
my fetters.'
Shake them off, then, Charlie!' interrup
ted the saucy girl, with a pretty, defiant tos
of her head, which plainly said, i defy yo'
| to do it,
'I cannot, Susy, and you know it, replied
the hapless lover, impatiently.
'That being the csse,' said Susy, 'take ad
yice-wear them gracefully and don't pull
and jerk so, il only makes them hurt you.'
The young man turned away and walked
silently up and down the room, evidently
frothing and fuming internally.
Susy, meantime looked out of the window
and yawned, and Charles continued his moo.
dy walk.
sOh, what beautiful bird is on the lilac
treer said Susy, suddenly. DO come and
see it,
Charles mechanically approached the win
dow and looked.
Don't you think, Charley 'said Susy
laying her hand on his arm, and looking up
eagerly in his foce, don't you think you
could manage to-
! What, Susy dear!' asked Charles, all his
tenderness awakened by her manner. What
is H!'
Drop a pinch of salt on his back return
ed the provoking girl, with affectation 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 before,
and his cogitations were more earnest, for
he did not heed any of Susy's artfully art
less devices TO allure his notice. At last he
stopped abruptly before her and said:
'Susy, for three long years have been
your suitor, without either confession of love
or PROMISE of love on your part. Often as
have demanded to know your sentiments to-
ward me, you have coquettishly refused me
an answer. This state of things must cease.
| love you better than life; but will no lon
ger be your plaything. Tomorrow you are
going away to a distance, to be absent for
months. and if you cannot this very day
throw aside your coquetry, and give me an
honest yes for an answer, shall consider
that have received 'no,' and act accord
ingly.'
And how would that be. What would
you dog asked Miss Susy curiously.
Begin by tearing your false and worth
less image from my hearth cried Charles fu-
riously.
1T would be a curious piece of business,
Charley, and you would not succeed ether
said Susy.
4 should and would succeed said Charles,
'as you shall see, if you wish, cruel heartless
girE'
But don't wish, Charlie, dear-T love
dearly to have you love me- said Susy.
sWhv, then,' cried the foolish youth, quite
won over again, 'why then, dearest Susy, will
you not consent!'
Remember, I said liked to be loved,' re-
piled Susy; Il did not say anything about
R.,K1 lo1r 4
had been courting me, in that pretty little
speech of yours!'
three long years. replied Charles.
Meat and accurately quoted, Charlie
But, you know my cousin Rachel was only
won after FIVE years courtship. You don't
suppose. I am going to rate myself any
cheaper than she did. do you! Suppose we
drop this tiresome subject for two years;
perhaps by that time | may be able to work
myself up to the falling-in-love point-there
is no knowing what wonders time may ef-
fect'
IF you are not in love now, you never will
be- returned Charles sturdily; and will
have my answer now or never
sNever, then,' laughed Susy. But she
had gone a step too far. Her often severely
tried lover was now too much in earnest to
bear her trifiing any longer.
'Never be it then!' he cried, and seizing |
his hat strobe from the room.
Susy listened to his retiring footsteps with |
dismay. Had she. indeed, by her incorrigi- |
BILE love Of eoquetry, lost him! It smore her
to the soul to think so. As he opened the /,
front door, impelled by feeling of dsspairs
she raised the window sash, and leaning for |
ward, whispered:
'Charlie! Charlie! you will be at the boat |
tomorrow to bid me good bye, won't you!-
Surely we are still friends
As she spoke she tore rose from her bo- |
som, and threw it to him. 1t lodged on his |
arm, but he brushed it away as though it had
been poison, and passed on without looking
up.
Susy spent the rest of the day in tears
Early the next morning the hustle of depart
ure began. Susy was going to accompany
her widowed mother on q trip for her health. |
] AS they reached the wharf and descended
from the carringe, Susy's eyes made them
selves busy searching for one wished for
face, but it wns now here to be seen.
The steamboat lay painting and putting, |
seemingly impatient to be let loose. Susy's
mother, aided by the servant man who ac-
companied them, had already crossed the
gangway, which lay between the wharf and
the boat, and Susy was reluctantly follow
ing, when the sound of a voice behind her
the very voice she was longing to hear
startled her. She turned to look around,
and missing her footing fell into the water.
Another instant, and Charles had laid off
his coat, and calling out loudly, Tell the
Captain not to allow the wheel to stir, and
to lower me a roper he sprang into the river.
But of her whom he was risking his life to
save, he was unable to see any trace.
Judging that the current of the river might
have carried her little forward, he swan