Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-29
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sub!imest of ecstacies must be with
out hope in this world or the one to
come. Counting should not cease with
matrimony; lot that We mean that a
man or woman after being once har-
messed should court other people, but
that they should make their joint
welded pilgrimage perpetual court
ship. People who live OH this plan
must ever Ire inexpressibIy happy.
Now thai the subject Is fairly up for
the most revolving specimen of court
ship on record was that between the
Duke OF Gloster, afterwards Richard
ILL.,, and Lady Anne, widow Of Prince
Edward, murdered by her sutton, who
had also just murdered King Henry
vi. himself. The couriship seems
to have commenced and ended owe
the cotHn. at a halt in the procession
while the body of the murdered King
was being conveyed to the grave-a
"a queer time and place for such doings.
The courtship opened most inauspi-
.ciouslv. The proposal was met at the
outset with a shower of viiuperation
sand abuse from Anne, who not only
charged Closter with the murder OF
her husband and her husbands
father, but with being a fiend gener
ally. But Gloster parted skillfully,
with honied words, declaring that he
did it all for love of her, so that after
.exhausting her stock of epiihets she
finally, caved in; she sand "she'd ne'er
sconsent-consented." No wonder
Chester exclaimed ove the denoue-
Jment:
WAS ever woman in this humor wood?
Was ever woman in this humor won?"
Richards next courtship, when he
solicited the hand of the daughter OF
Queen Elizabeth, widow of Edward
w., whom he murdered, as also his
two sons, was nearly as stormy. The
scrimmage was conducted with great
spirit, energy and virulence by the
mother in behalf of the victim; but
after a stout resistance the mother
cried peccavi and Richard triumphed
once more. And all she got for yield
ing was the insult:
-"lielenting fool, and shallow, changing
weman."
The eourtship between Romeo and
Juliet was as much too sentimental as
the foregoing examples were wanting
in that element. The first two were
simply shocking, the last simply
nauseating.
Old DR.. Johnson did his courting in
the most n%onchalant manner, as one
would infer from the circumstance that
he made use of the delicate fingers OF
his lady love to push down the dying
embers in his smoking pipe-a very
improper and ungallant proceeding on
his part.
The. reputed courtship between Giles
Scroggins and Molly Brown, and that
between Little Tommy Toinpkins and
Pretty Polly Hopkins, we regard a.
apocryphal, and shall not therefore
comment on them.
There are genuine cases enough in
world, without paiming off upon a too
credulous public a lost Of spurious
cases OF courtship rs the noveli,ts and
romancers are in the habit of doing,
These suppositious courtships or 10 ve
scenes, however, are devoured with
great gusto by the novel reading pub
lie, but why so much delight should be
taken in the perusal OF i'm 'ginary Gases
of tho sort has ever been q puzzle.
Every attempt to analyze the matter
and account Tor the fact, has been a
failure, aud we doubt if it is possible
to explain the phenomenon on phiio
sophical or biological principles. What
we most complain off these novelistic
courtships is that the lover Is almost
invariably portrayed MS a good, clever;
patient, spiritless Ounce, and the lob
ject of his affections as q smart,
proud, naughty, defiant, but magnif-
cent piece Of flesh and blood; haring
up on the slightest pr%ovocation, proud
~ raising her elegant form to its full
height, with arched neck, curling lip,
her glorions grey eyes emitting fire and
flashing proud scorn and defiance full
in the testtl Of her calcitrant lover, who
cower before her, AFFECT, ~speechless,
scared out Of his seven senses and glad
OH the subsistence OF the storm to be
fSecsived back into loving arms, with
out demanding indemnify for the past
or security for the future.
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