Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-06-21
oUnIos1rIEs OF couRrsH1p.

A proposal OF marriage was written and
sent by the post ia the days when letters trav
eied quietly at the rate Of some ten miles an
hour on the mail coach. The anxious lover for
the first week hreathlessly expected the reply
but it did moi come. The next week he pined
and WAS s!eepieSs; still no answer. The third
week he became Indignant "A civil ackaowl-
elgemenl WAS his due She was heartless and
a hrt-" The next week be despised her and
/ congratulated himself on his escape; aud, when
al the end of it he received his own letter back
from the deSd-letter Office, because he had in
his agitation forgotten 10 direct it, he had so
/ completely Uutlived his love that he never pro-
posed to that lady at all.
[ once saw a middle-aged invalid making
love to a young girl. After making great eff
furts 10 secure an opportunity Of meeting
her, he drew his chair close to hers, looked in
to her face. sighed heavily, drew his chair still
closer and willie she looked at him in astonish-
ment, andil in the distance strained my ears to
hear what tender remark followed all this pre-
paraiion, heard him whisper with great en-
phasis: VINO is your doctor?' 1 need hardly
say that The proposal failed which followed this
siI,iud.sed commencement. A more pardona-
suits was that of q very shy lover, whose one
idea was horses. He never found courage To
propose ill he had persuaded the lady to go
into the stable aud look al his favorite horses
There he spoke, and there she answered yes
Bat this was natural and pardonable; a shy
man may need th;s vantage ground, and, feeling
MS own iRferiority in the drawing-rooIn. may
vet be aware o. his superior knowledge and
superior power in the stable, where his horse
is ais throne and he himself king.
A marriage took place. not many years ago,
in the great world, where tae Two lovers (ong
attached, bat sspara,cd hy the desire Of the If
psrent) rs; under arc.iway while each WAS
taking refuge in Loldon from sadden shower
of rain. Neither of them had the least idea
of the neigh5orhood OF ths other, when the
sudden meeting occurred which decided the
course Of their future lives In another case
the engagement was broken off en- account Of
limited means, and the gentleman went abroad
Returning after some years absence, he arriv-
ed late on the railway platform, and rushed n-
to the first carriage ne reached, just AS the train
was in motion. In it he found (Nith her moth
er) the lady he had been so long vsinly ende&v-
orinS to forget, and the meeting ended in one
Of the happieSt marriages. Hans Anderson
gives, in one OF his bcoks, an amusing account
Of a young man, newly appointed to some Off
ca! position in the court of Copenhagen, order
ing his court dress in gse2t haste, that he
might be present at u ball where he meant to
declare his attachment TO a beautiful girl whom
he had long loved. All vent smoothly, and he
was on the point Of proposing, nay, had spoken
Il few preliminary words, when button gave
way on the hastily made couFtdress. The lover
rushed abruptly away, and the lady, hurt at
his uAlooked-lor departure, made ali engage
meat for a s!eighing party next day, where
sue received sad accepted the Offer of another
lover
Thus, love, as we'll as lif-. often hangs upon
a thread. Always secure your retreat in love
as in war. This is a Preeanti3p nsvsr TO De
neglected: MT. A, brother to the late
Lord Z, whose proud aud haaghty tesRper
was proverbial, proposed to lady in I'ortniaa
Square Gardens After being refused, the re-
jected lover turned away from her in great in
dig gnat;on. but finding the gate OF the garden
licked, was obliged to return 10 the lady to
petition for the key. Another case still more
trying was that of gentleman travelling in
North America, who, after being Hospitality
received in the house of an officer high in com
maad there, proposed to bis hosts daughter tbs
evening before his intended departure, and was
refused A deep fall Of snow came on in the
night; the roads became impossible and the
poor man, 10 his unspeakable modification,
was detained for "a week in the house with the
lady who bad rejected him