The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-09-30
THE MOST CAUTIOUS OF LOVERS.
LETTERS ON WHICH BREACH OF PROMISE
SUIT COULD HARDLY BE BASED.

LETTERS ON WHICH BREACH OF PRoMIs
SUIT COULD HARDLY BE BASED.
People may talk as much az they pleas
about the exq uiste diploma attic skill of G orts
chakoh or Bismarck in long correspond
ence, bat there has recently been a CORES
pondence going on between young LADY
who lives in fashionable neighbOrhoot
and a clerk in big dry goods store dcwr
town, which, for tact and fertility of re
source, would extort, were it fully known
the admiration of all Europe and America
lie has been paying the young lady very
marked attention for the last ten months
| and, as she would like to take a wedding
trip to the East this simmer, or else enter
her suit for breach of promise before the
courts take their vacation, she wants to
hurry up things. Accordingly she began
! writing letters to him, aided by her affec-
| tionate brother, who is studying for the
law and he, being of a suspicious DISPOSE
! ton, lie giving her most guarded replies.
Last Saturday week she wrote to him as
follows:
Dearest Heuard-Mamma will not he in this
evening. l shall be at home after 1t, and am
afraid shall be terribly lonesome If no one
calls. Ever yours, Ad&
When the young man got this he winked
and said to himself laconlcally, "Not much
she doesn't," and wrote back:
Dear Miss Ada-I regret that your respected
mother will be absent / had intended to
call this evening TO see if her health had i'm
proved. Your note, however, resssures me.
You speak of being lonesome. All, know too
we'll the feeling; ont in the company of our
beloved authors, Milton. Shakespeare, Jeremy
Taylor, Watts, and sll those immortal friends
who are never from home and never out OF
temper, bow can We bs lonesome
When The yoRng woman read this as far
as COMPANY OF our beloved she felt
rather triumphant, but at the next word
che bowed her beautiful head on her hands
and burst into tears, saving, .'He's just as
mean as old get out" Her brother Ager-
non read it refiectively, and said, He
demars we must join action ard plead to
the jurisdiction. This is deep serpent,
ais; he doesn't wear his sting upon his
sleeve: bat III fetch him. Then che
dried her tears and wrote:
1t was uuklr d of yen not 10 come last light,
bnl Ferdinand was EeIe AID stayed till nearIy
II. He is such darling fellow; just doie
upon him. But donC be jealous. The Sabbath
, bells are gins sweetIy. Do YOU not love
tie mellow music of the belis' At night
often IL my dreams seem TO hear the Ginning
of = oell-you N ast know which one.
I There" said the brother, 81 guess
we've got him. Ii he answers that IN a
/ letter .w o lines loDC. Wir:h Dexter couldn't
save him from $40 000 damages" The
clerk read II, sat down thougttfuily, and
replied:
| Don't be Jealous" Why should II True
/ friendship is uever selfish; and ucder all CIR.
br. Or hos HeseoI our lot iu life, shall be
yooI frleLd. Ferdinand Is, indeed, noble
ielloW, au6 worthy of your love. When is II
/ Isl caunot say do lie the bells, for
, like 10 slesp late on Sunday mornings. The
/ tell you cay you hear at nights must be the
/ alarm bell on the West Lake street engine
house Is you say. know II, for 1 often used
TO hear IL when l bearded over on Warren
! avenue
The you1g man did not conclude this
letter without come misglvings, "because,' >
said he TO himself, as ne read the rough
draft, cit looks little bit forced-too plain
to be artistic. 1t might be construed that
quite like the beginning. why should Z
seems as if l was so confident of her love
that couldn't be jealous. Well, I'll chance
it." SO he sent the letter, and when she
received it the girl had fit of dry hyster.
| les, and said, "Algernon. you must redres:
your hands" Then che wept again. 81
don't know" said her brother, donbtfuIfy
"he's biggeT'n l am, and tossing about
pieces of calico and boxes of thread auC
| playing on the counter with set of parable
bars is powerful in developing the muscle
He's brazen, fiery serpent, and 1 always
said he was, but if you will go on nursing
braEen serpents in your bosom you mus
expect them to turn again and rend you
He must have counsel learned in tho Law
to advise him besides, he has taken al
impression of his letter in a copying press
He Is o three-ply traitor. Perhaps, though
we can scoop him yet" and 30 they tried
and, after a session of three hours, pro
duced the following ultimatum:
How funny your last letter was, Congratu
latiug me on my engagement to Ferdinand
The ideal Who better than yourself know
where my affections are unalterably placed
Won't you come mp tonight Pa aud ma wi
be at home and they will be glad to see yon.
That's pretty good, guess" she said
land italiciziug that they will make th
, jury think that all our allusions to the oil
neople were put in to be Interpreted th