Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-10

from the fairest princess in Christendom
let what might come of it, and, at the
risk of his head, accepted the proffered
hand. The pair married in haste but
it is not recorded that they repented at
leisure. Had the daughter Of CASTOR
d'Orleans been as wise as the English
princes, she would have taken Louis
XIV. at his word when he consented to
her marrying the Gascon De Lauzun.
Mademoiselle was proud; and, if love
had impelled her to offer her hand, with
her heart in it, to an inferior, she could
not brook the idea of being married in
a manner unbecoming to a princess of
the blood royal. The king had time to
listen to the remonstrances of his coun-
sellors, and when she besought him on
her knees not to withdraw his consent,
only reproach her with not having pro-
fitted by it while she could. Louise de
Savoie, sometime Queen Regent OF
France, was equally unfortunate when
she usurped the masculine privileges,
and proposed to the famous Constable
de Bourbon. Louise and Bourbon were
at variance respecting the disposition
of his dead wife's property.-Talking
over the business one day together, the
Queen Regent observed that there were
more ways than one of accommodating
law suit. Queen Anne, for example,
had saved Brittany from civil war in
a manner worthy of imitation. True, "
answered Bourbon "but know not
what princess would enable me to settle
your highness' suit in such an agreeable
manner" "You forgot, duke, 1 am a
widow" said Louise, allowing her hand
to rest upon that of the Constable.
Bourbon's face darkened as he rose to
his feet, saying, "Your highness mis-
takes me. The respect l owe his Ma
iesty, the disparity of our years, my
own feelings, all render such Il union
impossible. If the king goes to law, /
will fight him, madam, that's all :" Had
not Louise de Savoie challenged that
rebuff, Bourbon had not lived to lead
his country's foes to victory, and the
sack of Rome would not be matter of
history. Miss Kenrick, the beautiful
heiress celebrated in the ballad of ''Fhe
Berkshire Lady's Garland" adopted a
singular method of winning the hand
some young attorney, Benjamin Child,
with whom she had fallen in love at
sight. She sent him an anonymous
letter, demanding satisfaction for inju-
ries received. After vainly puzzling
himself to guess whom his challenger
might be, and how he had offended.
Child betook himself, duly provided
with second, to the place of meeting,
near a pleasant crystal fountain. There
he saw no fierce gallant, only masked
lady, who asked him his business there.
He told it; whereupon his fair ques-
toner, flashing rapier she carried for
her security, said:-
1t isl that did invite you;
You shall wed me- OF I'll fight you,
Underneath these spreading trees,
Therefore choose from which YOU please!
Rather taken aback by such a sum-
mons to surrender, Benjamin asked to
see his challenger's face ere he decided.
This was denied, she would not unmask
until the knot was tied, but generously
accorded him an hours grace to turn
the matter in his mind. His friend ad-
vised him, as he could lose nothing, to
take the lady; and the three went off in
her gilded coach to church, where the
lady gay and her attorney were made
one without delay. He did not repent
the leap in the dark, when he found his
summer mornings adventure had
brought "beauty, honor, riches, stores"
but, taking his place among the gentry
of the country, lived happy ever after
wards. The hero of this romance was,
in 1714. high sheriff of Berkshire.-Not
in such warlike fashion did Margaret
Charlton attack Richard Baxter. She
sought to attain her end by negotiation /;
and never was bachelor of forty-five
more astonished than the worthy minis
ter when Margaret's ambassadress
opened her mind to him. He was des-
tined to an additional shock. While he
was vehemently declaring the idea pre-
posterous, Margaret was listening at
the study-door, and, losing all self-con-
troll, burst into the room, threw herself
at her idols feet crying, "Dear Mr..
Baxter, L protest with sincere heart, L
do not make a tender of myself to you
upon any worldly or carnal account, but
to have a more perfect converse with so
holy and prudent yoke-fellow to assist
me on the way to heaven, ard to keep
me steadfast in my perseverance which
L design to Gods glory and my souls
good !" Margaret Charlton was very
pretty; Baxter was mortal and sue
cumbed. So might Robert Leighton,
Bishop of Dumblane, have done too,
had be been wooed by maiden as
young and fair as Bakers assailant, but
the would be Mrs. Leighton was a
spinster of mature age, who called to
tell the bishop she had received reve-
lation from heaven that he was to be-
come her husband. The prelate, though
somewhat startled, was equal to the
emergency. He assured his visitor that
such an intimation was not to be des-
pissed but, as yet, the designs of heaven
were imperfectly explained, seeing they
had only been revealed to one of the
parties. He would wait to see if a simi-
lar communication were vouchsafed to
himself and, whenever that happened,
would be sure to let her know. 1t were
hardly fair to reckon pretty Elizabeth
Simpson among proposing ladies'; al
though answering Mr. Inchbald's sug-
geation that she should marry, with
"who would marry me?" was tanta-
mount to seeking tine reply, 81 will, if
YOU will have me-" The actor was not
so unready as Dean Ramsay's Scotch
beadle, who could hit upon no better
way of popping the question than by
taking the object of his affection to the
churchyard- gate and saying, Mary, my
folk lie there; would you like to lie
there, Mary ?" Being, like Barkis. will
ling, Mary was Indifferent as to how the
question was put as the Galloway girl,
who. when her uncouth swain carelessly
remarked, 81 think I'll marry thee.
JEAN" responded, 'Man Jock, 1 would
be muckle obliged to ye, if We would 7
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