The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-08-03
tuRIOSITuE~ OF COURr>uIP.

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/ A proposal was written and sent hv the
post in the days when letters travelled OUT
etly ut the rate Of ten miles nm hour on the
mail coach. Tae anxious l. v.r for the iirst
week hr-a.hlessly expected the reply, hut
1T DID not come. The next week he
pined, and was slecpless; still no answer.
The third week be became indignant. "A
civil Acknowledgements was his due. She
was henrtlrss and firt." The next week
he despised her, and epngratulased fimself
on his escape; and, when at the end Of !, he
received his own letter back from the dead
letter Office. he bad sn completely outhved
hi. love that he never proposed to that lady
a, all.
once saw a middle aged invalid making
lave 10 young girl. After making greai
rfnr,s to secure an opportunity of meeting
her, he drew his chair clnse To hers, looked
into her tace, sighed heaviiy, drew his char
st Il cos,r, aud while she io"ked at him in
astonsshment, and in the distance strained
ms ears tn hear what tender remark follow.
ell all this PREPARATION. heard his whisper
with great emphasis: Who Is your durtos?'
need hardly say that the proposal failed
which followed thus we'll judged c"mmsnce-
m.nt. A more pardonable case uf u mans
"A very Shy lover, whose one ilsa was horses.
lie never found courage TO propose TIL he
had per rsuadrd the lady To % iuto the sta.
hi. and l,ok at his favorite horses. There
he spoke, ami there he answered yes. But
this was natural and pardonnble; 1t shy man
may need thi. vnntage.groand, ani feeling
his own inirr,nrity III the drawing suoH',
may VET be aware of his superior kno~l-
edge and superior pawer in ths stable,
where his horse is his throne and he himself
Il king. .... .--.
| A marriage took place, not many years
ago. in the great world, where the Two low.
er- (iong attached, but separated by the de-
sire pf their parents) met under an arch,
while each was taking refuge in London
from u Sudden shower Of ram. Neither OF
them had he least idra Of the nris hbuihood
nf tn. other. when the sudden meeting oc.
cured which decind the course of their fu-
ture lives. In another case the engagement
was broken eff on account Of limited neans
| ., nj the gentleman went abroad. Return
,,y after snme years absence, he arrived
ate nm the railway platform, and rushed
;nto the frs. carriage he reached. just as the
tr.;, w,s in m, ,tinn. In II he found With
her m,,herl tn. lady he bad been SO long
vain,y en,,eayorins to forget. and the meet.
ing ended in one Of the happ'est marriages..
Hans Andersen gives, IN one OF his
books an amusing account ot Young man,
newly-nppain,edt to some otiic'a' POSITION ~
the court Of Copenhagen, ordering nus court
dress in a great haste, that he mIsht De pre-
sent ut ball where he meant To declare
his attachment to beautiful girl whom hr
had long loved. AL went smoothiy, and
he uas on the point Of proposing. nay, h"d
spoken few preliminary words. when u
button gave way on the hastily c'urt
dress. The lover ru-he,i abruptly away.
and the lady. hurt at his unlocked Tor de-
parture, made nm engagement Tor sleigh
ing parry next day where she received and
accepted the offer Of annther lover.
Thus love, as well as life, often hangs up
| on u thread. Always seeur. your retreat to
love NJ in war. THIS il \ prpcau',on never
to be naglecred Mr.. A., brother IN
the late Lord q, whose proud and hangh.
" temper, VAS prnsetbial, proposed 10 n
lady in Pnrtman Sqaare Gardens. After
being refused, the ri cted lover turned
away from her IN great Indignation, but
finding the gates Of the garden ineksd. vas
ohliged TO return to the lady to petition for
the k"v. Another case suil more irving
was that of gentleman travelling in North
Amerca. who. after being Hospitality re-
ce,ve in a hsu.e Of an officer high IN cam
m md there, prop 'sad 10 tn. hosr's daughter
the evening before his intended departure.
and ~as refused. A derpfall Of snow came
nm in the night; the roads hecame imrass-
able; ard ,h. poor m IN. tn his un-psnkatle
| mart,fcation. vas detained for u we.k in
The house with the lady Who had rejected
| him.