Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1882-03-29
Old He Propose.

lcrSile. WIFI Sh"~HNA'
he seductive hour before the gas jets
are lighted and window blinds are pull
ID down-the delicious twilight, when
crate fires shine like burning masses OF
ruby and people sitting beside them
GROW mildly confidential. 1t was snow
no a little outside all the better IoI
he click Of the crystalized pearls against
the glass filed up the silence, aud made
t,e COSY warmth Of the room luXurl-
onsly delightful. And Martyr Eller''
li,, pleasant brown eyes, fixed full on
the FIRE, saw-no one can tell what OF
how much they saw!
sSnppose she should say no. he
burst out. seemingly apropos to nothing
at all.
Suppose she shouldn't observed
Guy Barnes, dryly.
Il tell you, Old fellow, lis exactly ike
having a tooth pulled out. Your friends
stand by and say. BE a man; it's
notbngp 1t len't they who are under
the doc,or's iorceps.'
Complimentary to Miss Cien.'
.Ncnseuse. You know what | mean.
But really and truly, Pye tried and l
can't DO IL.
VERY we'll said Barnes, Indifferent
Is; 'Ahen it is an understood things that
Won are TO live and die an old bach
elor.'
Il didn't say that
Oh, l beg your pardon. You expect
Fanny is going to propose 10 you. that
it,
You are a heartless miscreant'
Ellerslie cried out, half laughing, hall
impatient, as ho sprang to lis feet and
tossed the remnant of his cigar into the
fire. and l shall not waste any more
words upon you-unless, indeed, you'll
20 round to the fair with me-
Where Fanny Glen has a stand? Not
if | know it. The money market i;
rather tight with me just at present
and these fancy fairs are no better than
den of robbers. where delenceles'
young man is concerned.'
And Martyr Ellerslie vent on hi
way alone.
TIE hall vas all glitter with gas
lights and fragrant with flowers when
he got there ;tbe pretty feminine sparks
lurked each behind her table well laden
was all smiles and dimples, while th'
thronc of victims ebbed and tlowet
around them.
Mr.. Elerslie found himself greeted
with declarations.
sYcu will take a share. Mr.. Ellers
lie"
DO please put your name do"n here
Mr.. E!lerslie; there are only ten blanks
left
Oh. Mr.. Ellerslie, you are the very
one we are waiting for. I've kept sever
for vor-seyen is always lucky mum
ber.'
Mr.. Ellerslle don't, pray, spend al
v)ur money until you've taken share
in this mammoth doll, with a trunk iul
Of clothes
And thus our hero was flung hi'he
an ven on the waves of the fair, draw
ling near, however, with every descrlp
non 10 The table over which shone th'
blue stars Of Fanny Clen's eyes.
But when he cot there he was smil
,ten with a sudde2 silence.
| Fanny looked wonderingiy up.
Tt's q fine evening" he bazzarded
SIS it?' asked Fanny. Why, though
it was snowinel'
so It is!' said our hero, growing vcr.
red. and overturnlng with his elbow
crimson Venetian flask Qor which HI
Immediately had 10 pay a sovereign
IL mean it isn'ta very fine evening
'Ohv said Fanny.
Yes said Martyr, feeling aculel
tpa, he had made q donkey OF himself
Then he went away, and didn't Sc
Fanny Glen again the whole evening
probably because she was the only per
son in The whole room that he cared
| flo about seeing at all. But so unkln
is fate 20 love and lovers.
Just as be was edglng his way out Q
the place, in a very dispirited and de
iected frame of mind, there was rus
and Autter, and he heard his ow
name called in all the notes of the hr
man gamut.
.Wbat is it?' he asked, vaguely star
ling around him.
You've drawn the big doll! erie
little Sibyl Percy, dancing up to him
and laying in his arms the huge waxel
abominatioD, with its aossy yellow curl
and imposing pink and white complex
ion: while somebody else brought lh
big trunk and little baud'oox' ~
lust like travelling with wife, sal
Slbyl, mischieyously.
Bat what the-ahem! what am
do With its' asked our bewildered herc
GIVE tito somebody said sibyl, II
wardly hoping he would act prompt
] ON the suggestion and besiow th