Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-12-17
Courtship.

..a su Courtship.5
The following anecdotes are copied
from Mr. Sanders new work on Wo-
men, Love and Marriage published by
CarIeton:
A geologist, once, Travelling in stage
coach in England, happened to sit oppO-
! site to q lady; glgures were exchanged,
dHd mutual admiration seemed TO be the
result. Eye-language was soon exchang-
ed for verbal conversation; after few
! interchanges about fossils and perth
! factions, they began to talk about living
subjects. from generalities to specialities
from the third person plural to the
! first person singular. Said the gentle
man, II am still unmarried" quoth the
4 lady, $50 am I;u said the former, AZ
have sometimes thought of marrying
the latter responded, 80 have l." Then
a pause ensued; Suppose" said the
gentlefnap. I've We're 70 marry one
another-I would love and cherish. ~
II !" said the, fair one, would honor and
obey" In two days they were MARI ed.
Few will admire such precipitate court
ship; it is altOsher too Short,
The history of Cobbett's courtship is
well known from this naive autobio-
graphical confessions, but it loses moth
ing by repetition: $50 HiaE.
When he was serg eant-maior III a
regiment of foot, he fell in love with the
daughter Of a sergeant OF artillery, then
in the province of New Brunswick. He
had not passed more than an hour in her
company wheIi,s noting her msdejty i,
her quietude and her sobriety, ne said
THAT is the girl for me. "The next
morning he was up early, and almost
before iG was light passed the sergeant's
house. there she was on the snow Scrub
bing out washing tub That's the
girl for me, again cried Co0bett,
although she was not more than four
teen, and he nearly twenty-one sFrom
the day [ first spoke to herr he writes,
II had no more thought of her being the
wife of another man than had thought
iofher becoming chest of drawers,
He paid every attention to her, and,
young as she was, treated her with all
confidence. He spoke to her as his
friend, his second self. But in six months
the artillery were ordered 10 leave for
England, and her father with them
Here indeed was blow. Cobbett knew
what Woolwich was, and what tempta-
ton a young and pretty girl would
be sure to undergo He therefore
took to her his whole fortune, one hund-
red and fifty gaineas-the savings of his
pay and overwOrk-and wrote to tell her
if she did not find her place comfortable
to take lodgings, and put herself to
school, and not TO work so hard, for he
would be home in two years. 1t was
not, however, till the end of four years
that Cobbett got his discharge. He found
his little girl a servant of all work, at
five. pounds a year, in the house of.a
Captain Brisac; and fiwithout saying a
word about the matter, she put into his
hands the whole of the one hundred and
fifty guineas IInbroken! What beau
tiful episode. What kindly pure trust
on both sides. 0-s -. r-.--,--f
The following cases are in another
kina.rrs7.r z = Fr
We have read somewhere of an inge-
nious stratagem, devised by q French
lady of fortune, for securing a true hus-
band. She kept herself very secluded
from society and gave out report that
she was frightfully ugly-as counter
influence against her well known wealth
As she was not accessible personally to
her suitors, they of course had recourse
to their btJets-dour; aid among these,
one from Belgium pleased her fancy,
and to his missive she replied. An in-
terview was accorded, and the fortunate
suitor proved to be man of fortune
also, and of noble character. When they
met in her saloon, the lady wore a mask;
she warned him not to risk his happi-
ness by lllaying himself with one so
deformed in face and feature. -
He,replied, "VeIl, accept my hand;
no N M nsly hfIf tn hA of rTa.
husband;;n so charmed was he with her
sweet eloquence and grace. .t.s iis..
-. II consent, - she replied-'tI shall sur
vive the appearance of alright and dis
gust-perhaps contempt-you may feel
after marriage. 3"
In a lew days their marriage took
place; and notwithstanding his refusal
10 accept it, the whole of her fortune
was settled upon him. Returning from
the altar, she threw herself on her knees
before her husband, and placing her
hand on her mask, lifted it, eXclaiming,
"You have not deserved deformity; you
merit the love of beauty" And vision
of angelic beau y now stood before him.
Nicholos, the Emperor of Russia, won
his bride in a singular way, yetit had a
spice of gailantry in it.$ During visit
to the King of Prussia, one day, while at
dinner the Emperor rolled up ring in
a piece of bread, and, handing it to the
Princess Royal, said to her in subdued
voice, If you will accept my hand put
this ring on your finger" This is the
imperial way of popping the question"
She TOOK no time to todeiiberate, but suff-
cred her heart to speak the truth at once;
and their happy nuptials were soon con-
sumated. v~