Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-03-06

OF EN- give eatiSlhCIOu. NOW l wan
somebody permanent-somebody that,
agreeable and III take an interest. You
know always set great deal by you
Lovisa. Can't make bargain with
you"
A matrimonial bargain David in
tended and desired-nothing less. But
his stupid tongue had this time con
veyed to Lovisa the impression that he
wished to engage her as housekeeper
and she bridled at once.
II don't know what you can be
thinking of, Mr.. Yopp, to propose such
a thing?" she cried, vehemently. 81
never did hire out for wages" she was
about to add; but she recoiled from the
mercenary expression to remark, with
severe dignity, 81 have never lived any
where except as a friend"
"Well, I'm sure don't want you to
live with me if you don't feel friendly, y
responded her sutton, very much hurt
"I'd sooner rub along alone-fact.'
II do feel friendly, Mr.. Yopp-that
is, did; but as to going to any body's
house in the way you speak of, l can't
bring myself to do it,"
"What do YOU mean for to say,
Lovisa, that you have specific objec-
tons agaist getting married?'
1t was not yet so dark that David's
eyes, peering at her from beneath their
projecting buff awnings, could not see
the sudden agitation caused by his
words, and he took courage.
Because, if you've no specific Oh
iections against matrimony generally,
and feel friendly toward me individoo-
ally, and Pm so disposed, l don't see,
Lovisa, what's to hinder our making II
bargain"
"Oh, couldn't, Mr.. Yopp-I couldn't
anyways, though its very kind in you
to mention it. she faltered, incoherent-
ly, while her face, usually like wax
yellow wax-glowed lurid red.
Maybe you're afraid l shouldn't
make you good husband, Lovsa, be-
cause Pm getting along in years, and
never had any experience" suggested
he, turning his averted face toward her
with a curvilinear jerk; "but I'd do
my best, and mother always gave me
credit for being willing. Actooally,
now, Lovisa, it does pear to me
'twould convene both on us if you
was to make up your mind to have
me-"
Again she shook her head, but more
slow this time. David almost fancied
the motion might be only the dying
vibration of her former negative, and
went away not altogether hopeless.
At FIRST, as we have seen, the thought
of matrmony had been to him rather
distasteful than otherwise, but Lovisa's
persistent refusal aroused the latent
combativeness of his nature. The
more she would not marry him. the
more desirable she seemed to him, and
he never let slip an opportunity for
pressing his suit till he had wrung
from her promise to reconsider his
proposal
With this weighty subject on her
mind, she came to visit us and help
about the currant jelly-and precious
little help she was
81 feel so exercised, Mrs. Farms
worth !" she confessed to my mother,
privately. "Do you think it would
make great deal of talk if should
get married?" The second week she
was lamenting that Mr.. Yopp was not a
professor. Might she not be the chosen
instrument to lead him to the light?
By the end of the third her sympathies
had gone out to the blind old father in
need of a woman's care, and she was
querying where the duty lay. Ought
she not to ask the presiding elder?
Having sounded her by few adrOit
questions, that reverend gentleman
smilingly advised the union, and this
virtually decided the matter for Lovisa.
will go to you, Mr.. Yopp-that is,
if it will be any accommodation" she
said, timidly, when, at the close Of the
month, David came for his answer.
They were married the following
Thanksgiving, in the brides small
parlor, while the stumpy little teapot
in the kitchen gurgled and choked with
glee. And, the service over and the
wedding picnic discussed, my father
lent his horse to David, and the happy
pair drove away on their bridal tour,
and were gone at least three hours,
during which the nuptial guests trans
ferred Lovisa's modest spinster belong
to her matron home.
For thirty years these mature lovers
lived together like cushatdoves, and
never to the day of her death did
Lovisa regret the hour when she mar
ried David, lust to accommodate.
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