The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-16
A Remarkable Courtship. Z
How Il GuiIeless Professor
Proposed and was Accepted
in au Hour. 4rlL.

1 hAW n AOkGSSOi
Proposed and was Accepted
in au Hour. 4rot
A correspondent of the Indianap
Oils Herald tells the following anec
dote of Prof, Foster, who filed Will
much ability one of the chairs of th,
college in Knoxville, Tenn.
4 Prof. Foster was well educated il
the sciences usually taught in college
but his ignorance of the common
affairs of life rendered him q remarka
4 bic man, furnishing a rare subjec
for the study of human nature in one
of its multiform phases. Being ad-
vised by some of his friends to ge
married, he, with childlike faith and
F7sinnplicity, accepted their advice, anc
promised to do soft he could find {
young lady willing to have him
They referred him to o number O
young ladies in that city, any one O
whom they had no doubt would bt
willing to accept his hand and make
him happy. He was one of the most
kline, hearted of men, as void of guile
as of offence, and an entire stranger
to the forms and ceremonies of mod
! ern -eourtship. He couldn't see the
necessity of consuming year Oh
two in popping the question-"Sa1ly
win you have. me?" So he went that
very day to the residence of the near
est young lady who had been recon
mended, and being welcomed and
seated in the family circle, as he al
ways was wherever known, he at
once made known the object OF
hisvisit by saying in a clear and
distinct voice: I
'::Well, Miss Sarah, my friends have
advised me to get married, and they
recommended you and number OF
other young ladies to me as suitable
persons, and have now called to see
if you are willing to marry me-"
Had an earthquake violently shak-
en- the premises, the household could
not have been more astonished. Like
frightened roe, Sarah started to
run, when her mother caught her
and said: m
why, child, don't, be frightened,
the Professor won't hurt you"
Being seated, deep blush sue
ceeded the paleness which had been
caused by the startling announce
ment, and she rallied enough to be
able to say to the Professor that as
his proposition was entirely unexpect-
ed, she must have some time to con-
slider the matter. This he granted
and said: ~ se-
As I am anxious, in case of your
refusal, to see other young ladies to-
day, I can wait only one hour for
your answer"
Knowing the worthiness, sincerity
and simplicity Of the Professor, the
matron took her blushing daughter
up stairs for consultation, while the
father was left to entertain. his pro
posed son in-lsw the best he could
under the novel circumstances. Oh
course the discussion of the sudden
proposition between Sarah and he1
mother was private, and can not be
given in full. The most essential
points of it, however, were told after.
wards. 1t was readily admitted
that he was entirely worthy of Sarah
hand and heart.
"But, mamma" said Sarah, show
would it look to other people for me
to have to answer in one short houl
--only sixty minutes-jump at
hasty chance-and to think how m,
young friends would jeer and laugl
at me.-Wouldn't they tease me tx
death? No, ma, 1 can never face tina
music" r- e..
"But stop, my child, and listen tc
me. There is not young lady il
the city that would not jump at tn
offer made you. Let them laugh
Girls must have something to laugl
at, but it won't hurt you. Tell hin
yes, emphatically. If he were
stranger whose antecedents wer,
unknown tous, however progressing
in person and manners, or profuse il
his professions of love, I would with
! hold my consent. But we have Ions
known him, he is amiable, kind heart
ed and sincere, fine scholar, witt
an honorable position in the college
and he makes no false pretenses
You know just what he is. Wha
more do you want?"
"But, mamma, 1 don't know that h
loves me; he hasn't even said so"
90, well, daughter, never minc
that. Generally those who are tn
loudest in their professions of low
have least of the pure article. Yo1
can teach him by example to Low
you. 1t is far better than precept.
Leaning her head upon her moth
er's bosom, Sarah said in submiss
i've tone: sr-s d, -.-t-. -Frl
"Well, ma, just as you say-Il
tell him yes, but although the hou
isn't half out, we'll not go down unit
the last minute of the hour"
At the expiration of the ffty-nintl
minute, they returned to the Profess
or and papa, Sarah, still blushing
but more than before. Then, will
| a frmness that astonished herself a
well as her parents, she extended he
hand to the Professor and said:
ts'Yes, sir, if papa consents"
Z He gave his consent without hesit
, ancy, and it was readily agreed to b
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