The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-16

III ] should become Il famous prima
donna, Cecil, think how YOU would feel
Cecil Qorlornly)-I can just imagine
il. dear,
Gcriic-But should need three years
OF earnest study. This is tho middle Of
September. i could be ready to start by
tho first of October.
Cecil (grasping the situaton) -Thcn
Sou mean that shall marry you and
send you abroad for three years alone?
Ger,ic-Or come with me, if you like.
[Magnanimously,) | am perfectly will
ing you should como with me.
Cccil-NIy dear girl! Leave my
business for three years? could not
leave it for three months, much less
Gcrtic with gracious conccssion,-
Well, l would come over every year or
so TO sec YOU
Cccil-Every year or 500 But. Gertic
darling, should like to have nv wife
beside me in my house-not at the other
sidc OF the world.
Gcrtic (sadly)-IIow selfish, how very,
very like n man!
Cecil (caimly)-It is-rathcr.
Gertie-And knowing my aspirations,
would you let mo sacrifice this dear
dream of my heart just to be with you,
TO make you happy? And you call that
love? That poor and grasping selfish
mess, love?
Cecil (rcasoningly) ouldn't it strike
You, Gcrtic, that you--cr-ah-might
sccm-a little bit -sclish-too?
Gortic lin amazcmcnO i. selfish? /?
Cecil (humbly)-Wcll. you certainly
appear to have your own way But,
now. dear las if sudden thought had
flashed on HIND, let us look at this mat
ter rationally-lctu US examine it lust as
tits. Ahcm! You have made me an Of
fer OF marriage
fri-i-i-gh tful thing to say,
Cecil mean You have proposed to
mo
Gcrhc-proposcd to you?
Cccil--But, You have surrounded vour
proposal with conditions that make it
Simply impossible for me 10 accept. I
realize OF course. that YOU have be-
slowed on mo the highest honor wom-
an can bestow or q man
Gortic-Cccil! Mr.. Clingon.
Cecil (entrcatingly)-I beg you Will
not urge me. The circumstances that
compel me to refuse to be your husband
need not wholly cstrangc us. Think of
mo as broth
Gertic (rising indignantly)-S Sir. this
IS an insult. How dare you?
exit, Cecil hurricdly)
tertic Qlinging herself on couch and
sohbing wildly)-Oh. how horrible of
him TO say that l made him an of.of-
GfiCri But | did and bc-oan toll moo
pie. On. he wouldn't do mat But nc
can! And to believe that Id go abroad
and leayc-him? wouldn't go if was
beaten there. But they'll believe any
thing. And he'll never come again, and
can t-can't tell him. Oh. he has no
.sense-they never have. But he docs
know that love him. He docs-the
I outrageous thing! The miserable, hate
full Oh! you poor, splendidf elbow!
never aid deserve you!
Clipping from the New York Daily
Register. October 9, 1890:
HoLDoFF. CLLSCoN.-M Married at the parson.
age, by the Rev. De Rvctt Strong, Miss Ger
trude Holdon TO Mr. Cecil Clingon all OF this
city.
Clippings from the Glebelands (N. j.
Grassmower, October 10:
- We arc pleased to learn that Mcssrs
Bhoomplnicc and Yarnlowd have sold one of
their new cottages on the Upper Depot Road
This side OF Rikcrs woods. The purchaser is Mr.
Cecil Ciingon. n rising young business man Of
Nolg York, who. with his charming bride, in
tends 10 make home in Glebelands We con-
Efatulate Messrs. d. and y, and trust they may
be as fortunate in disposing OF the other houses
sncy hayo erected in the same ncighborhood.
Madeline S. Bridges, in Puck.