Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-02

Archibald Goldmore, gravely renewing tns
subject said:
I'm curious way your choice of Miss
Templs-we say nothing shout her view
Of the matter
20, that's all right enough" young Har-
ry said.
THAT we shall see, his uncle remarked;
"for the present, never mind. Twas going
to say your choice in curious way appro-
yes itself to me; for do you know, Harry,
once had thoughts Of proposing to the
young lady myself"
"Ot whdtf" screamed the nephew.
"Of proposing to the young lady myself"
ths uncle repeated.
"Of what" exclaimed the nephew again
in a scream OF undoubted surprise. He
could neither believe his ears nor disbe-
lievs them.
"Of proposing to the young lady myself,
Archibald Goldmore answered more with
steady solemnity.
His nephew would hear no more. He
burst into a roar of laughter. threw himself
back in his chair, laughed loud aud long,
changed the key of his laugh, went high,
went low slapped the table, and in q gen
eral way siguiGed that the most comical
idea ever heard of since ideas FIRST began
had Just been let loose upon the world.
1T is perfectly true" the uncle said
used to his nephew's mad moods, and not
as yet sffronted.
"At your sgem screamed the nephew,
marry lovely girl like that Do yor
think she would have looked at your and
so in a variety Of phrases be put the sb
surdity, sslutiug each fancy with feest
outburat of ridicule, while the uncle sa
fuming over insults which we're truly ex
aspersting But he was q man Of grea
selfrestraint, and he said nothing.
All that night the nephew persisted il
his ridicule. Uncle, what kind ofs Goa
would you be married in2' Where woul'
you 90 for your Honeymoon blow man,
bridesmaids would you have hair
Would it not have been suitable TO hav
sage spinssers of fttyY' and 80 on in an ia
sane, bat offensive, succession. The rude
Young fellow thought only Of his sallie
and his amusement; perhaps q little tine
ture of annoyance lay at the bottom, ON
made his tests tsuuts indeed. In any case
he lasted to his hearts content; and th
uncle, boiling over with anger, disclose'
nothing of HE fury. The nephew though
of final witticism. After they had gon
to he'd he marched to his uncle's door an
tapped. and the uncle, hearing his voice
which for wittier effect he pitched low an
serious, fancied he was going to apologize
The great man opened his door.
"Upcls," said the nephew, in a gray
tone. which carried on the illusion.
well, HenryT
Something has just struck me"
"Well Henry?"
Il could not 60 to bed without ssklD
you"
What is it2'
MAKE ma godfather to number one"
he dropped his voice lower than evel
And screaming again with rapture, he n
treated down the corridor, and left hi
uncle to 90 to bed with what appetite 70
sleep he might.
The next day be rode over to Blaucour
and at night returned to dinner. He wa
tired, and spoke but little beyond q grun
Bile at the fab. But when desert begsG
feeling his energies recruited, he began t
show something more of bis playful ways
Thought again about your marriage
Uncle2::
Yes, HAIRY"
"You could not do wiser thing than Il
propose TO a young beauty" said this youn
! man offatal rudeness. The younger an
the more beautiful the wiser you will be.
Here came the facetious scream.
was always the same-short, shrill, spas
modic, irrational
so think, Harry
Only don't propose to Miss Sybli Tenn
pie; she's mine, you know.
Have you asked herr
NO; but shall tomorrow"
Harry, | asked her to-day
What for meT
mo, for myself.
You did,"
II did"
Nov don't begin with any tricks. uncle,
the young man said rising from his chat
with alarm in his face; Il hs tie practices
Jokes"
This is no Joke" the uncle answered
with cAluues3 Il asked Miss Sybil Tenn
pie TO marry me, and she said Yes Sh
is my altiauced wife, and With her mother
full consent"
Poor Harry Goldnors's face fell as Wis
IDLY during this announcement as if it hs,
been house tumbliug down story BY story
At the end-the speech was slowly deli.
cred by his uncle-he called oui Id eIsctl
the note in which the angry boy says, "
won't play any more"
"Well it's tse shsbbiest thing l eve
heard Of
Harry, listen to me" the uncle said Sc
verely. You are g thougtlesg youul
man, and ysl know we'll your Affection
Sese not engaged. ! doubt indeed, II y"
have any affections to engage. Yor IA,
been rude sod even brutal in vopr IL,
glags TO me; l forgive vc,L; YOU have ba
a lesson. | would Fave provided fos Won
With Miss Tepcrpie. and still | gill provd
for 1t vim any young LADY I approve 0
au going 70 ny library now, and yen hs
better think this matter over, ara ask yoal
sell whether Jon would rot be Wise il 70
learn good panpe:s. Iam Est harsh wit
you, aud D long as ynI are not immoral
r5ver will be ksrsh. for your fathers sake
But ! okail marry Miss Sybil Temple en-
you shall not"
he rose and left the soora, majestic, lik
the Tower Of Babel walking off With itself
the young man, ps,rlfed,. followed hiu
with bia eyes as he departed. and then can
speechless into chsiy,
And thus, reader, was the second, tn,
beautiful Miss Tempe, engaged to be mar
sled.
CHAPTER V.
AN INTERRUPTION.
The course Of true love, if it never run
smooth, very often runs slowly. No ont
can say that Car or Sybil Temple married
for love; we need not assert that they sole
themselves; marriages such as theirs ar
made every day, with the sanction of tn
church and the praise of the world; BAT
they are not ideal marriages not romantic
mt the afnff mt of which lnva can hs