The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-02
AN ESGLIsHMAN's wOOING.
How He Won the Hand of an Attendant
in the Boston Public Library

III the BOSTON
boston Correspondence Hartford Courantl
/ observe that one of my brother CORE
spOndents of this city has written to a Hart
ford paper an account OF the marriage of an
English gentleman with one of the
attendants in the Boston Public Library.
This event seems TO be revived in
public attention periodically / can
give II 10 You more minutely than il has yet
been written out, and as in so doing, the in
dependence of the American character will
be illustrated in very favorable contrast TO
the manner in which it has been exhibited
in some other cases of foreign alliance by
marriage, perhaps it is worth the space
/ shall give ii. In this case the young lady
came TO Boston from a country town in
New Hampshire. She was a good speci-
men of the country girl, in robust health
and formed after the English model in
frame-er after what has been supposed to
be the English model. for | observe that
Mr.. Richard Grant White denies that th.;
English girls are of buxom build. This girl
made no pretensions to style" She was
well educated, and first got some copying
work to do, later receiving employment in
the Public Library. There her English lover
saw her. He was the young son of distin-
guished and noble family, and he had very
large wealth in his own right He was here
III lllt nope ludt Oh air
would cure defect of hearing with which
he was afflicted. He used to visit the Pub
lie Library and talk mostly in business
way about books with this young lady BY
and by he asked permission to call on her at
her boarding house-one of the respectable
but far from pretentious places in the city
at which boarders are taken. She declined
to accord the permission. He then one night
left The Library with her, and waited upon
h.a- To hx~ hon lx...- \
brother, who boarded with her, saw him,
and objected to this being continued until
she knew more about him. The gentleman
then went to some friends in the city and
procured letters setting forth who he was
On this the lady consented that he should
call. He came regularly afterward, and
soon formally offered himself to her in mar
riage- She refused him outright. She re-
minded him of the difference in their
conditions, and declared she would
never agree to a marriage which must be so
distasteful to his family. Without telling
her what he was 10 do, he took the next
steamer for England, and in few weeks re-
appeared with a collection of most cordial
letters from all his near relatives promising
the lady warm welcome into the family,
and accompanied by really dazzling array
of presents. She refused TO touch one of
them, and again declared that she would not
marry him, this time because her parents
would object The lover in the same quiet
way started for the New Hampshire farm.
He came upon the parents unheralded and
introduced himself They, too, refused him.
But they were struck with his manliness and
and agreed finally to leave the |
decision with the daughter His devotion |
had its effect on her at last. She Welded. |
but, with genuine American independence,
she would be under no obligation to him |
till they we're married. She would not even |
accept an engagement-ring. She made her |
own trousseaul and it was very simple. They |
were married and went abroad She said |
the severest ordeal of her life was when she |
met her husbands S relations. To show how |
simple her life had been, it is a fact |