The Irish standard., 1889-07-13

lad got well under way he would have
| ALLEN at her feet and sworn that it was the
light of her fair beauty that made hun do
! t, and that he would proceed to
plunge a dagger in his heart and jump
overheard if she did not consent to allow
| aim to make for the nearest port and marry
aer. But he didn't perform this romantic
| coup q etat and he didn't get her. How
ever, none Of the other fellows got her. In
| September she returned to Brooklyn, and
he Ii, New York. He saw a good deal Of
her during the fall and winter, and I have
good reason for believing that the more he
saw her the more surely he became con-
vincel chat she WAS his fate, and that he
could not win her in any conventional way
But just what To do he couldn't think. He
was a good deal puzzled, but by no means
hopeless He realized that she must know
shat ne loved her and the fact that such
knowledge did not induce her to rebuff him
he interpreted iii his favor II seemed as
clear as it had been at Cape Ann that no
man was preferred before him.
SWELL, such were the circumstances when,
| one evening in the first week in May, he
came over from New York and accompanied
her to meeting OF a reaiAng and dramatic
club. Brooklyn has number Of such Or
CARNATIONS, you know. During the evening
Juliet was asked to read something, and
consented, after q little urging, TO &c so. A
volume Of Hood lay ON the table beside her.
She IS a beautiful reader, and gave the
poem which she selected with inimitable
spirit. I had the pleasure of listening to he:
and was charmed. Being q newspaper man,
and newspaper men knowing every thing.
you are doubtless familiar with the poem.
1t is the so!iloquy of Discontinued damsel,
who has discovered, or thinks she has dis
covered, that romance has vanished from
the earth. Every verse, and there are a
good many of them, ends with her sigh:
There's no romance in that!
As Juliet was reading itoccurred to Richard
that the poem was meant for him. Before
she had finished a dazzling plan Of winning
hex flashed upon him, AMI the more he
thought it over the better it pleased him.
So as he babe Juliet adieu that evening he
said to her: Miss -, thoroughly APP
prove of the sentiments Of the poem which
ycu read, and have determined to do what
I can, in my own poor way, to revive the
spirit of romance. Hereafter, when you
permit NE the honor Of coming to see you, !
shall use neither the conventional ferry
boat nor the prosac bridge. | shall cross
the East RIVER as Leande: used to cross the
Heilespont when ne ,ventcalling upon Hero.
IF Juliet had not been so thoroughly en-
amored of romance this speech OF Richard 8
must have struck her as just q shade
funny. AS it was she was immensely de-
lighted.
"'How perfectly lovely!' she exclaimed
when Richard had unfolded his new
scheme of romantic, if not rapid transit.
Leander has always been one of my
heroes. how true and strong must have
been his love for Hero to inspire him for
her sake TO brave the mad currents Of the
Hellespont night after night. You must
admit, Mr. ---, that the figure which that
i.untless youth presents to ones fancy is
Infinitely more winning than that Of the
modern young gentleman who is trans
ported to his lady-love hanging to the strap
IF car or crushed in the motley crowd Of a
ferry-boat.'
Isl don't believe Richard replied, that
Leander ever would have been equal 70 the
feat if he hadn't been sure that Hero cared
for him You may we'll believe there IVES
4 light in Richards eyes as he spoke that
was not to be mistaken It was as though he
had declared, IF you don't love me or won't
love me, Juliet, then l shall only be able to
drown as come swimming to you through
the East river. But il you love me the
swimming of Il dozen East rivers to reach
your side would be an easy task
1.Of course Hero cared Tor him. an
swered Juliet with her eyes firmly fixed On
the chandelier over their heads. None tut
;he brave deserve the fair, and [ imagine
that they generally get their deserts Then
ner eyes came down from the chandelier
and met his Il moment And fired by their
tender glances I am sure that Richard felt
equal to swimming the entire three-quar-
.ers of the earth's surface, which, it / re-
uenber my geography correctly, is all
water And so you understand why it hap
oened that you saw my young friend III the
East river this evening. Since the 18th of
May, when he had this conversation with
Juliet, he has come over TO see her fre-
luently and every time ne has swum over
from New York. Herhonleis on the Heights
Just over the water, not far from -- street.
After leaving the river a quick run of
shree minutes brings him to the garden in
the rear Of the house. In tho garden is a
DIT OF an arbor, which he has appropriated
and turned into dressingrcom. Heenters
t dripping norman: lie energies in even
Jug dress, with flower in his buttonhole,
and greets Juliet, whom he finds waiting
For him just beyond on the broad piazza.
SWELL, that's about all there is to tell.
Her mother and she go abroad in the fall
and our young friends, i'll accordance with
Juliets conception Of the romantic propri-
cites, are to be married at Rome next
Christmas Eve. I asked her the other day
why she chose that time aad place. She
replied that Italy WAS tine land Of romance,
and that Rome was the Queen Of Italy, and
that Chris tmas Eve was the loveliest eve in
tue caiendar. Just now she IS wild about
falcorry and Richard has promised her to
devote a portion Of their honeymoon to
teaching her to hunt with a hawk. Then,
Of course, she will have her portrait painted
with falron on her wrist. Perhaps you read
the other day in the Brooklyn Eagle an ac-
count OF correspondence which was being
carried on by a Brooklyn belle and her New
York lover by means Of carrler-pigeons. No
names were mentioned, but I happen to
know that Juliet and Richard were the per-
sons referred to. He himself told me Of the
origin of the correspondence. A few weeks
ago, in course of fervent protest against
the prosaic, Juliet quoted to him verse
from that poem Of Hood of which spoke,
r think can uire Won the lines Let's sea: