South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-01-08
THElNTELLlGENCER
FRIDAY. JAN. 8. 1892
a LEAPsYEAR PROPOSAL.
rus srosr on 4 frrrLn oiRL WHO
sRoroHr ABOUT 4 wspDIno.

Really, Cstbarine. ] don't wonder
Lea Aery'sssurprtse AZ ynur behavior
Iou forget that J n are Fraok's Wild
90. Yoa are too erWard.
! I besitatcl nom sns. really anx
tous to keep my iempar; for Isws,
franksssidou, aud the. speaker va
has mother.
Forward cried Masy. 'Iudeed
you would have been sboeksd last
ni4h:. mother. There vac Sir. Vance
urging her To sing, and sac' ing a. II
Hfrbest Hatsfead was her only friend
wH<n Il was only . married woman :
Yes, interrupted julia. I think
MOI her. il y.u can't make K1e real,
ne that she 10 married. with . daugh.
ter nearly 6 years Of sge. you had
be ter
Send me away. broke in unable
longer to con'r.l m,sef; It's not tie
fret sims that sha. h ns has heeu
thrown out, an ! II we're not for little
Nellie, poor Child. would 90 away
TO earn my living at oace. You
drive me desperate. ] declare I viii
marry again and get rid OF ell this
and then / burst into tears.
Marry sSs,ni How will you do
it? o., y.sl ago q Ike cried Ju.
liza, witha shrug a, nv tears. Don'i
you SEQ. Mary, i.'s leap ye,rf and ste
laughed der,sivaly.
Who'll you askp snecred Mary.
Herbert Halstcad 2 Julis. you'd bet.
ter look ou
You may sneer. cried. checking
my tears. wa not .ho' oughly an.
CRY. Blu, I tell you. II one shou l,i
ask me 10 marry him, I believe
should ask Mr.. ilslstesd, aud-hed
have mel
had iairly taken up their own
weapons OF personalities which I had
scorned. The moment after, asham-
ed OF myssli, ran TO nv room tn
pu, on my bhnnet and get on, OF the
house. l 10 .ked in the glass as pu.
on the craps bonnet, with it's wi l.
ow's cap aid veil on my head. and |
saw f.ce TO which black Was vsfy
becoming, though il was not a re-
mark ably pretty face. 1t looked no
more than "a come said no, more
than 20; hut l was rcally over "a
Married al Is TO Frank Steven.,
had been Q pet,ed wife for four years
ami now q widos-ios ivo.
The thought OF the happiness OF tn.
four and tue loneliness Of the two, ae
I Cooked q, the face surrounded ny
Grape, made the tears come agsin
but brushed shem away resoli.elv
and wept ont. knowing that a brisk
walk would do me more good th an
anything else. I went out vi hou,
my darling, nv in.ep arabic c smpan
ion, my iitie baby girl. Nellie. This
alone showed how tronbled ] was
Truth 10 se IL WAS too angry TO Hus,
nv SET With the little one. who might
have asked 90 have conversation ex
planned. for she bad been in shs room
at the time. 'ult only hope :ha,
al Eve year, Old a child did not un-
ders. and me.
Soon after LEFT, my mother In Law
snd her daughters went cut for drive
They invite'i Nellie 10 go, hut she
feeling. perhaps, that they hsd mol
treated msmma veil, refus, d. So "a
the front door bell rang, AMI. like I'll
children. Nellie must run to see who
was there. She managed TO open the
door herself, and there stood hei
prime fsvorite among the gentlemen
who visited the house. Mr.. Hslstesd
or IS sIie bad called him since her ba.
byhood, Upcie Herbert. DE had
be en- her fathers chum and desrss,
friend. and loved the child for Frank
cake.
Ladies home. Nell
| I'm home. said Nell. anil dss
mamma II be IN SOON.
Very WILL Let's 60 In the pario
and have = chat.
Nellie sat in his lap, discussing tn,
merits OF coo aout cakes and suga
aimond, little white but, suddenly
dropping hes candies 10 her lap. sh,
seked, What's leap --leap--losp,
fOrdet. Do you know what's iS
Leap : lesp frog ? le'p yearS i
lhst g.?
Yes What Is itP
Why. lie . yesr when you ladie
can ask the gentlemen 70 marry you
But you sce, Nellie, you're too younl
--or wOuldn't Jon ask me :
Oh, mol " uldn't ask you. Nam.
mas going TO ask you.
Tie young man nearly dropped the
child, snd then folded her c'ose u
bim again, lest, perhaps, he should
forget her sgsin. What do you mean,
darling be asked. Now, think
y slIie, but don't tell Uocle Herbert
anything Of your own makeup.
Oh, mol really, truly, bless me-
SHE'S alive -isn't that what you say
when you are true Well ?--tbe
little tot gave g long Sigh and pans-
ed, Herbert not daring TO lnterrupt
her lest she shoald see his anxiety,
and, ministers woman that che vas,
should refuse W satisfy him.
Well, she repeated, you see, they
dO"s scold mamma. 80 they does. To
day morning they naked mamma
cry tomorrow (she would call yester-
day Tomorrow they seeded he- be-
cause she Wouldn't cling, aid then
they said she was fordard. What's
fordard 2
Forward. indeed 2 ejsculsted Her.
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