Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-06-14
Curiositics ef Ceurtshlr.


A proposal was written and sent by tho
post in the days when letters Travelled qpi.
/ etly Mt the rate Of ten miles an hour on the
mail coach. Tho anxious lover for tho
first week breathlessly expected tia reply,
but it did not come. The next week he
/ pined, and was seepless; still no answer,
/ The third week he became indignant. "A
civil acknowledge ment was his due. Shu
was heartless fiirt." The next week ho
drspised her, and congratulated himself on
| his escape and, when at the end Of it he
received lis own .tter back from the dead.
| letter oilicc, he had SO outliyed his loye that
he never proposed to that lady at all,
once saw middle-aged invalid making
love to young girl, After making great
efforts TO secare an opportunity of meeting
her, he drew his chair close to hers, looked
into her face, sighed heavily, drew his chair
still closer, and while she looked at him in
at ,nishment, and in the dis,ance strained
my ears to hear what tesder remark follow
ed all this preparation, heard him whis.
per with great emphasis .-"Who is Sour
doctor9' need hardly say that tile pro.
posa failed which followed this well,ipdged
commencement. A more pardonab!e case
of a mans absarbtiqn in his own pursuits
was that of very shy lover, whose ans
idea was horses. He never found courage
| to propose ill he had persuaded the lady to
90 into the stable and look at his favorite
horses. There Ne spoke, and there she
answered ycs. But this was natural and
pardonable a shy man may need this vans
tage-ground, and, feeling his own inferioIity
in the drawing-room, may yet be aware Of
his superior knowledge and superior powey
in the stable, where his horse is his throne
and he himself a king
A marriage took place. rot many years
ago. in the great worll, where the two lo,.
ers (long tached, but separated by the de-
sire of their parent) met under anarchy
while each was taking refuge in London
from a sudden shower of rain. Neither of
them had the least idea Of the neghbor-
hood Of the other, when the sudden meet
ing occurred which decided the course of
their future lives. In another case the en-
gagcment was broken off on account Of
limited means, aud the gentleman went
abroad. Returning after some years alb.
sence, he arrived late on the railway plat.
form, and rushed into the first carriage he
reached, just as the train was in notion
In it he found with her mother) the lady
he had been SO long vainly endeayorng to
forget, and the meeting ended in one Of the
| happest marriages.
| Hans Andersen gives in orc of his books,
an amusing account of young man, newly
appointed to some official position in the
Court OF Copenhagen, ordering his court
| dress in q great haste, that he might be
present at a ball where he meant 10 dec,ara
| his attachment to beautiful girl whom he
had long loYed All went smoothly, and he
was on the point of proposing, nay, had
spoken a few preliminary words, when
button gave way on the hastly-made court
dress. The lover rushed abruptly away,
and the lady, hurt at his unlock. dior de-
parture, made an engagement for sleigh,
ing party next day, where she received and
accepted the offer of another lover,
Thus love, as well as life, often hangs
upon thread. Always secure your re-
treat in love as in war. This is precau-
ton meyer 10 be neglected; Mr.. A.,
brother TO the late Lord L, whose
proud and naughty temper was proverbiai.
proposed to lady Of Portman Square
/ Gardens. After being refused, the reject.
ed lover turned away from her in great in
rdignation, but finding the gates of the gar.
den locked, was obliged to return to tha
lady to petition for the key. Another case
still more trying was that of gentleman
travelling in North America, who, after be-
ing hospitality received il house OF an Of
ficer high in command there, proposed to
the hosts daughter the evening before his
intended departure, and was refused. A
deep fall OF snow came on in the night;
the roads became impas; able; and the poor
man,to his unspeakabe modification, was
detained for wesk in the house with tho
lady who had rejected him.