Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-03-01
soaERyILLE's QUANDARY.

: FADpAAt9f IN tltt accepted meaning OF that
term, but he Is the proprietor Of pair OF
long and glossy side -whiskers, which he has
solemnly assured me he would not take ten
thousand dollars for | believe he has never
Deen tempted with an offer | really do not
know what. someryille's business is; /
don I think be has any, except that of cul-
tlVaIor of ms property C., of course.
comber Of his side whiskers. | know he is
beau he is not only positive beau how
ever i regret 70 add, but comparative
6eau-that is, beauer But you generally
spell it it b ore, | believe, don't you?
He comes into my room-ston. tho II
should not speak in the present tense, for of
AAe was "a sias HAsssAR.Eaanl no more
room when / was sure 10 be at nj DusiCas.
combing his glossy side-whiskers lovingly.
and getting out his gimlet Then he would
bore me by the halfhour. His talk was of
his conquests among the fair sex. He had
smltten Miss Croesus at the party last night;
he had struck an arrow into the heart of
| Miss La Gene at the Opera he was having
a starving Irritation with Miss Araminta
Blumengeld of Fifth Avenue.
Tel you what, Schreiber, said he, one
day about month ago, as he sat down and
put his boots upon my stove; I'm in a
Quandary
Are you ?" said l how did you get
"Oh, I'm in good earnest about it, I tell
you. It's no slight matter. am going to
get married, Schneider
And who is the happy fair one p
'Ah, that's the rub, as Booth says, you
know. That's where the quandary is, you
see. There two Of en-
Don commit bigamy, whatever you
do, said l.
''Stufl OF course not. But I don't
know which of those two girls to marry
They are both dead in love with me, and
i Il tell you all about IT, "
| prepared for martyrdom.
There Ellen Sweet, you see she s the
first one. You ye seen her havn'l you A
lovely creature, and the most heavenly tenn
per- ] love her as bad as can be, you know
regularly swept, | am and she loves me
like anything ! would marry her to-mor-
row if 1t WASH t for one thing she's poor.
She's living with her uncle on Fourteenth
Street-you know old Sweet ?-but he won
give her anything Of course; he's FIVE
daughters Of his own to provide for and
Ellen Is an orphan, and has got nothing of
her own. Ii she had anything at all-say
ten thousand dollars T d let Miss Goldegg
Goldegg is an heireSs, they say, to not less
than hundred thousand I've looked into
it pretty carefully and m satisfied their is
no doubt about it in fact its more than a
hundred thousand ii ANYTHING. | WOuldn t
be surprised to find after | get her, that
she's got double that But then, you see,
she s got the devil of a temper and that
makes it bad. She good looking enough
at least she gets herself up in tirstrate shape
gut style, and all chat, 70 peIfevtiUn but
you see never did much fancy tail and
thin woman. I'm tail enough and thin
enough myself But she's dead in love
with me, Schreiber-in fact people talk
about US and l do wish | could love her,
but | can t. Whenever | try to think ten
derly about her up rises the vision of Ellen
Sweet innocent and lovely face, andy
George it enough 10 drive Il man crazy
What in the hend Is a fellow to DO in such a
quandary as this ?''
"Why, if it was me, Somerville, | should
certainly marry the girl loved if ! married
at all. But could you support her if you
had herr
''There it is again! ! coulIn't support
her in the-eh-styla Of lite [ N accustomed
to at all. We should have to take rooms at
a second-rate boarding house, and | sh ould
have to go to work in some blessed place or
other, and be steady and all that, you know
which ! couldn stand.
Well then, marry the rich one, said |
earnestly; agree to be satisfied, it you
will
"But don love her shall be unhap
py-I know | shall-such a temper as she 5
got If | could only marry her money, and
Ellen Sweets soul and body, continued
Somcryille, rising and walking about the
room in great distress.
And then he ran over the whole subject
again, after the manner OF his kind.
Finally, | gave him my advice sobory
Since you ask it, Somerville, you shall
have it. Go and marry Miss Sweet, and
| settle down to a cOntented life. Change your
habits, and become a useful member OF So
| cietv instead Of an ornamental one, The
man who truly loves a woman will be content
! with any lot that leaves him peace, a good
home, and her | really think, my boy, that
| such a woman as Miss Sweet might be the
making of you.
'Well, I'll think about it, said he, as
| he sauutered out, combing his whiskers
thoughtfully.
Next day l was honored with another Wis
it. Somarville was elegantly arrayed, as il
to 60 out.
I've made up my mind, Schneider,
said he, pressing on his kids.
"Ah
''Yes; I've decided in favor of Miss Gold
egg. I'm going up there now-tbis very
afternoon She loves me, you know and
that S good deal, the | don't love her
Put her money in the balance and it S set
tier. la rer0ir.
At an early hour on the following day
Someryille sauntered into my room in hi:
velvet dressing gown, and with disheveled
hair.
''I'm sorry did it, after all Schneider.
''Then you proposed
"Yes and, now that it. all over, l wlsl
had taken your advice. She wouldn
have me, Schneider
'You astonish me | cried, with gentle
sarcasm.
II feel as if | wronged poor Ellen, h,
continued, dismally. "Ineyor ought to have
allowed myself to be untrue to- her.
"She need never know il, Someryille IT.
better as it is, old fellow For your SAX,
/ IN sincerely glad Of it Now, be a man
marry the girl you really love, and be hap
py. | shall have hopes OF you yet,
'I'll do it, said he l II offer myself to
morrow. BY George, I'll do it to-day
/ Good-by Schneider I'm going to dress i'm
mediatey
He went out whistling.
Late in the afternoon my door slowly
swung on its hinges but no one entered
Looking sharply, | perceived pair of eye
gazing through the crack at me.
is that you Somerville? said /.
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