Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-29
THAT CORSET.


in social circles if the circumstances which
brought the courtship to close had been
more GENERALLY known. But both the
fances had been discreet. II was known
that Ted had been keeping company with
tho wealthy widow, but what had induced
her to depart from her oft expressed de-
termination never TO give Pat McDoua-
Rhue successor was mystery,
If Ted had been young and handsome
her choice might have been accounted for
But he was fifty If he was " quarter Of an
hour, and when he dropped nickel in the
slot the arrow did not stay its motion till
it had passed the point of 300 His circutl-
ference was longest at the equator. From
that line it tapercd up and down Like so
many other San FrancisCaDs, Ted had once
been rich, but having in an Ill advised mo-
mcnt resolved to get even with that grasp
inc bonanza firm he he'd left most of his
coin on the bleak shore Of Pine street, and
was eking out q small remainder of his
| fortune by precarious jobs as a real estate
md insurance broker. His symptoms, as
the homoeopathistss say, indicated marriage
! with woman of means. And Teddy, who
was iovial, good tempered and full OF fun,
| did not despair Of carrying conviction to
the mind of one of the many California
widows whose husbands had been iudicious
enough to die before they lost their money
After much accommodating he had fixed
| his glittcring eye on Mrs. McDonaghue
whose husband had been killed in the
| Bloody Bootjack mine Just after he had
struck pay ore; the widow sold her interest
in the niue for n round million, and had
| lived sumptuOusly on the interest ever
since in roomy house in the Mission.
She had no children, but she could always
find girls to accompany her to the park, or
to the theater or TO the watering places
in the season. Like Ted, she had run to
adipose. None but the descendants of
Longitharm could clasp her waist Few
chairs could sustain her weight. Her
favOrite seat was sofa.
| When she became aware that Teddy was
paying her attention with a view to mat
rimony she told him that he was ridicu-
lous.
"Misther O'Mara," said she, "tbere is no
carriage built in which we two could sit
side by side. If we walked tho streets
.rrum and arrum, we'd push every one
into the gutter"
"Nisth McDonaghue," said he, cav |
could hold your warrum, plump hand in
moline, the whole worruid might pitch into
the gutter for anything Ia care"
PTt tbe widow bad beAn 50 lone, ,ro.ned
IRON, tLonght. Of Iowa tbaf sbo IanobeJ n,
Teddv,s onsb and he made hut IittIe rro,,
ress. He brought her flowers, which she
srifrod without the least sense of ,,ratitrJ<
to the donor. He brought her candies
r,bicb ebe oave IN bor oirI fr;onds n.
bor,,bt ber tbsstar tic1,sts v.Iirb che a..
so,,tod ~, condition tIot be ,ros no. ~ ao
ror',anv her "D,re wan4u sho ,,oHTL
rar ,,tn hava' +aLsn for frool.y tron, ~,
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