Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-01

Godlva was desperate. She rose from her
seat and touched the gentleman gently on
his arm, hurrying him to his feet with a
bow and a look Of "at your service
ma'am, I" which deepened into a mingled
expression of doubt and amazement as his
| fair neighbor held out her hand and said .
May L trouble you to lend me your
handkerchief, sir?" He blushed very red
indeed and SO did she, but he gave her the
handkerchief and sat meekly down again.
wondering like Chicken Little if the sky
wasn't falling. Godiva had possession.
which is nine points in the law, to be sure,
but after the first satisfaction she could
not but be aware that she had unlawfully
possessed herself Of what wasn'thers. The
click of the car-wheels would fall into the
Jingle OF & What will that young gentle
man dO-dO-if he should need his hand
kerchief too-too-but perhaps he has an
other. Some people do carry two-twon'
and rattle it increasingly as the train flew
on; but the final query: Z" What will he
think Of me?" remained unmoved by any
philosophy She felt the blue eyes stealth
lily regarding her with cOmical look.
At last the train stopped and Godiva got
out and walked away with the pocket
Observation-Disclosures the young man got out
and walked away also without any When
one is very wretched or very anything
you don't want to be, work is the best
specific, and 50, as shopping is the severest
toll a woman is ever known to accom-
plish and live, GOdiva endeavOred to busy
her thoughts and shopped energetically;
but there was more frequent resurrection
Of them than was agreeable, since every
time she used the big cambria she thought
of the young man and blushed. After she
had bought every bargain she could find,
and engaged from the intelligence office
graceful Hibernian with a face tied I'D in
a dingy towel, and who submitted, per
haps, on that account to the misery of
living with an Hinglish cook, as "them
Hlngllsh has Ortul tempers, mem" GOdiva
lunched very satisfactorily to herself and
felt her cold diminishing every moment
Let me leave her eating strawberry-ice,
and follow our hero awhile He was
quite an elegant fellow, blessed with
blonde mustache and an admirable tenn
per, but his name was Peter Brown.
One cannot have everything in this
world, so Peter comforted himself
by mental sympathy with Romeo
and felt as sweet as if he were
called Caesar de Montmorenci. He was
! tastidiously delicate in his tastes, and a
woman with cold in her head was a hor-
rOr to him, SO, when he found himself re-
| garding with interest the young lady in
| the cars who had such an evident inf1uen-
"a he felt he had a new sensation, and it
was wholly novel to have her march off
with his embroidered cambria; but Peter
was youthful sage, and believed pro-
foundry in all women being "temples of
pure marble, lighted by lamps fed by
holy OIL" and thought no i'll of any. So
he went his way; on it he met a special
friend of his, a Mrs. Dairy, who was over
| jOyed at the meeting, since she wanted him
of all things for some private theatricals
she was about to get up, in which Peter
would be altogether lovely" as she
| graphically said. Who could resist such
"a speech from such lovely lips? Not Pc
| ter Brown; and SO it came about that in
a month after the handkerchief episode
the drawing-roOms of Mrs. Dairy were
! brilliantly lighted, and half the world
stood on tptOe to see the other
! half move on fantastic ones upon
the mimic stage set off from the end
| of the long room. The curtain
| rose to the entrance of our friend
Miss Godiva, got up after the fash
| ion of Louis XIV, and beautiful to
look upon. When in the course of
the play my lady has to say: All! |
have seen Monsieur BEFORE" Godiva gave
a very natural start, for in the lover enter
ing she sees neither the stage Marquis nor
whose handkerchief lies in her upper
drawer, and whose wrought initials, P.
| B., are a frequent reproach to her. Godiva
saw quickly that her Marquis did not in
the least connect the patched and rouged
lady before him with the catarrhal
! era, anu TIE play went on anu OH WIN
grand success; everybody outdid himself.
Peter congratulated himself that he had
not fallen PROSTATE over his long sword
or harpooned anyone with his spurs, and
! GOdiva herself that she had escaped with
her life from her three-inch heeled slip
pers (this was before their introduction
into society. Aften the incense pouring
was over and Peter had emptied his censor
at the fair Marquise' feet Mrs. Dairy pre-
sented Mr. Peter Brown in due form to
Miss Godiva-why should | tell her other
name since the reader sees it must be
speedily merged in Brown-dear neutral
tint? GOdiva and Peter were neighbors,
and what says moral and immortal
Miss Maria Edgeworth? Propinquity
is the origin of love" When this
fact was ascertained bouquets with
the young gentleman began to arrive fire.
quently at Miss Godiva's door, and sud-
denly Peter desired to learn German, Co
diva being proficient therein. Why is it
people in love avoid their mother tongue
so? Even Bottom was translated when he
fell in love! And so the golden winter