Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05
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ten set my teeth on edge, "ask pa"
Then I kissed her ruby lips, and
pressed her one-sided form to my Wild
ly throbbing bosom.
go my darlingr' I cried, "this is too
much"
s'Now, Tompkins, said Julia, "don't
letout your emotions to any great ex-
tent till you find out what the pater-
nal G. has to say about this proposal
of yours. Let us 60 to him together
"Where is he-in the ibrary?" I
asked, rising, and taking her hand in
mine.
Perhaps you never noticed in your
reading that 'the stern parent" is al
ways in the library when wanted by
his daughters lover? Well, he always
is in works of fiction. But as this isn't
work of fiction, you won't be surpris-
ed to learn that Mr.. Gigziig didn't
hang around the library great deal,
and on this particular evening he was
smoking his pipe on the piazza:
Julia, having adjusted her chignon,
We went out together, and I told the
old gentleman just what troubled me.
ssMr. Gigzjig," said I, 81 love your
daughter, and your daughter loves me.
We have concluded that we would like
to get married, if you are willing. |
believe I'm a gentleman of good NOR
al character, and my credit is good at
the grocery store. I think I can make
your daughter happy if you'll only
give me chance to try. I can't offer
her just such home as | would like
to at present, but perhaps we shall be
just as happy in a cottage as we could
be in a palace. | have not much to
offer, I know. MY heart and lutte,
and trife of between forty and fifty
millions of dollars is all the store
that I can conveniently bring at pres
ent, but as the poet says, poor and
content is rich enough and I am con-
tent, or at best, I should be, if I could
call this darling one-sided creature
mine"
I paused to breathe, and Mr.. Gigz-
Zig removed his pipe from his mouth.
e.Tonip pikins, = said Ii, sttllssez Ike
you, but you've got rival in my af-
fections, and the said rival has only
this minute left my presence. He ask
ed me for my daughters hand.''
"But you didn't"
'.No, [ didn't give him decided an
swer. [ told him if he would get into
some respectable business, then, if he
could show me that he was able to sup
port wife, why, perhaps I'd let him
have Julia"
"And my rivals name?"
"Is Jagazz, Familiarity called Billy.
But as he is only worth twenty mil
lions, while you are worth forty, why,
if Julia thinks she likes you well e.
nough to marry you, why, blow me! if
[ stand between two loving hearts"
go my father!" cried Julia, ''canst
thou doubt that I lowest him~ And
she folded me in her brawny arms.
"Well, no, not after such a proof of
your affection,' answered the old gen.
tleman. And without any more ado,
he arose and remarking confdentially,
"Bless you, my children" went into
the house, leaving Julia and I to bask
in the light of each others smiles, and
to snicker over our good fortune.
Like the late John @. Othello, OF
Venice q saw him at the Boston Thea
ter the very night that he stabbed him
self) [ am "one not easily jealous, .
and yet, I must confess that I've al
ways been somewhat jealous of William
Henry Jagazz. know Billy isn't one
half so handsome as [ am. He hasn't
got my wavy midnight hair, nor my
classical features. AS for eyes-well
say what you will, glass eye can't
compete for beauty with such a pair Of
soul-melting orbs as [ wear. And then
Billy's has an Internal bad habit oil
rolling over and leaving nothing visi.
BILE but the whites, which plays the
very deuce with his '<killing glances.
Any we'll regulated mind can easily
understand how it must destroy the
effect of the most soul-thrilling glancef
to have ones eye flop over. You have
got to pop it out, and then pop it bach
again, and by that time your opportu
nifty is lost. See how it is, don't you
+ BUT women are strange creatures
! They always marry just the men tha
, you think they ought not to marry
3 I heard of a woman who married a mai
with only one leg, because as she said
two-legged men were so common
3 Now, wasn't it quite as natural tha
, my Julia should love Billy Jagazz be