The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-05-18
WHY HE LOVED.
Int si .II 7fli 1855 tHt
"What do you love me fOri" sai(


She .is %. i5us rsst I-Ei uat1 -sas eU
"Because you are so pretty" SAID he
4 She did not know whether she lik
Ell the answer or not. Admiration i:
very sweet to a woman. She put hel
head down OH his shoulder. IT."
"Ob, Charlle!" she said. .If 1 were
ugly-you think me ever so much
prettier than really am, you know
but if were really ugly, wouldn't
you love me 1 should you. Oh. il
anything hurt that dear face, or made
you less strong or graceful than you
are, l should love yOu even more, l
know" n- if.H rtHH" .4t.
Men have no tact. They can't help
it, poor things! The husband of a
week laughed as he kissed the sweet
upturned face, and said "a 20
'Don't imagine all sorts of things.
Why didn't you fall in love with that
excellent Scotch gentleman who was
all mouth and cheek bones? Or
crooked little Jones? You liked big
fellow, and one who was not absolute-
ly hideous, instead and IL appre-
ciate virtue and learning, but did not
love Minerva Bobble in spite of that.
I loved the prettiest little girl in the
world, because she was the pretliest
and sweetest. Kiss me-" i.'-H
She kissed him, but afterwards she
said slowly and in u half whisper.
81 hope God will let me die before
He makes me ugly. l could not bear
to live if you did not love me- a
They had not been married a month.
They were OH their honeymoon trip
even then, and they were very much
in love-he as a man is, she as a wo-
man is-and that is quite in different
way. Not that find fault with that.
1t is but natural. Men and women al
ways do everything work,
play, idle, even fight differently. Why
should they love alike? But the
nowledge of this fact doesn't come
to a woman until her first love has
been wintered and summered. and the
knowledge is seldom agreeable.
. Nettie was loved. 1t should have
contented her, and she told herself so,
but she would have been happier if
Charlie had said just what she wanted
him to say. 1t made No difference to
that honeymoon,s however. They
walked and chatted and sat together
i'm the moonlight. They rOwed up the
river, and wandered through the
woodland,i and had such a summer as
people never have but once, and then
they came back. to the city, and to
their everyday life. All! the sweet
cemmonplaces of home life, when it is
the homo Of married levers! And
there was no cloud to mark their days
for many happy m onths. -.
At last, however, the time came
when they must be parted for little
while. Charles found it necessary TO
GO to New Orleans on business, and
Nettie could not accompany him.
Charles did not like the parting, but
he took it phiosophically, as a man
must, but Nettie nearly cried herself
blind. . a......., ,,..f t.t .sf1
Only a few weeks, he said. 1t was
to be two months. Nettle gave the
time it's whole valae. When he had
kissed her, she clung 10 him almost
convulsively. -tI -sf
"If | should never see you again."
she sobbed.
''My little one, don't be FOOLISH" he
said, and held her more closely to him,
and was off.
But he thought of her as the train
flew away. lie thought of her as he
trod the streets of strange cities and
sat alone at strange tables, and he
dreaIht of her all night. But she wore
his letter in her bosom, and he tucked
hers into his pocket. "at
Once his letter was delayed, and she
was sure that something terrible had
happened, and was just saved from
nervous fever by its tardy arrival.
Once hers did not come: he took it
cOOlly at first. "1'hat cOnfOunded
postman has made mistake" he said.
But after several days, he concluded
to make sure that all was right, and
telegraphed
eff well, answer at once"
Just then, if he could have sent his
spirit home on the telegraph wires, he
would have seen this picture:
Ills Nettie lying on her bed, listen
ing to the doctor.
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