The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16

been withdrawn from my reluctant
lips, with part of It's contents bestowed
upon the front breadth of my poplin
gown, and part distributed over my
face, making an unhappy smudge of
the pearl powder and locomotive dust
previously adorning 1t.
The stranger knight was once more
seated beside that other man with the
broad, strong neck and handsome
shoulders in front of me, and quite
abandoned to my weakness and cha
grin, with plenty of time for reflection
between myself and the station to which
/ was ticketed.
make no doubt that such conduct MS
have described on the part of strong,
hearty, well-intentioned, and we'll
brought-up young woman may seem
decidedly queer to some people; and as
have great respect for the opinions
of even the pious, precise and innocuous
folks in the world, beg leave to explain
that this indecorum of mine was en-
tirely due to two persons, who, having
been young before was born, were in
discreet enough to love each other con-
trary to the parental judgment, and
who had been cruelty separated in con-
sequence.
These two young persons, with hearts
duly broken, went their several ways,
and in the course of time, with their
recuperative faculty with which the
affections are endowed, each saw an
other of the sex I" devoutly to be wish
ed, and entering into the state matri-
monial without violence or constraint,
it is to be inferred were moderately
happy.
Here the romance properly should
have ended, but it did not; and these
two persons, unhappily parted in their
youth, entertained a sentiment for each
other quite reprehensive, considering
that the sentiments of each were under
distraint, which reached point of
elimination, when the lady had become
the mother of daughter, and the gen.
tleman the father to a son, in the be-
trothal of the innocents; binding the
agreement with the condition that
should either, arriving at the years of
discretion, refuse to ratify the contract
made for them, the one so obsteperously
conducting him or herself should forfeit
the fortunes naturally inherited from
the respective and respected parent.
Well, the heroine of this love tale
was my mother. L beg you not for an
instant to think that have the slight
est fault to find with the dear lady who
thus divided the family romance into
| two volumes, leaving to me the ardor
and ardorous closing chapters; but
when you have taken into consideration
that this man with the musical voice,
with the magnificent shoulders, and
that luxuriant and finger-tempting head
of hair, who sat directly in front of me,
and who had just delivered himself of
the above-quoted startling protest against
prearranged matrimonial alliances, was
clearly the man to whom L had been
betrothed by my mamma at an age too
immature to admit of anything like
protest or preference on my part, you
will allow me, trust even hysteria, if
could have managed it, wherewith to
meet the situation like woman.
had never seen the gentlemen before
my mother very properly refrained
from meeting her old lover in the days
of her mutual widowhood, and my
affianced having passed the later years
of his life abroad-therefore L cannot,
of course, have been exactly in love
with him.
Nevertheless, he might waited to
have seen me before rejecting me,
thought; and, although L am
rather too short for dignity, and rather
too florid for indignation, planted my
feet upon my carpet bag, and bridled
my head, independent of the car win
dow against which my weak neck had
at first deposited it, in no contemplate
imitation of both.
The train drew up at wayside sta
ton with a shiver and shrek. We,
that is the man in the Panama hat and
I-were Ell route for the home of an
old lady who would have been our
J parents bridesmaid had they spared us
: this unhappy complication by marry
each other-whereat we were to meet
, in respectable council over the ire.
pressible conflict to which we stood
, pledged.
, The brakeman opened the car door
: rapidly, and exploded something, the