The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-01-12

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| continually in the room.
Miss waring-No; I will not discuss
Il. The sutjcc would assume entirely
too personal tone at the present mo.
ment. Some other time, perhaps; but
| not now.
Grsy-Thcn I am not to be invited to
l dnnerg
1 Miss wariug-Nol
Gray-what am to dot It's too late
| to 90 back to Woodlands.
Miss Waring (smiling)--I might send
| you out a slice Of pudding.
Gray--Did you really make pud.
ding2
Miss Waring--I really did. -
| Gfay--Wnat nice little housewife
you would in Ike! Miss Waring be.
4 comes intensely occupied in mos. CON.
| plicated piece OF darping. Gray suddenly
notices the nature OF her wcrk). Darn.
ing, too, by Jove! What treasure you
will be to somebody, Miss Waringl
Miss Waring with slight contraction
of the cycbrowsl --D1u't you think the
conversation is becoming very persouali
GTay.--Y,s.
Miss Wariug Then don't you think
we had better change the subie,tl
Gray--On the contrary lind the sub.
jcct mos. interesting.
| Miss Wtring-You are incorririblc.
Gray-rhen why try to correct mel
Why not let me tell you what think OF
you.
Miss Waring (rcsignedly) If it give.
you any pleasure.
Gray-Why not let me tell you that
think YOU true, honest, aud, as | said
before, old fashioned That believe
you 20 be careful, industrious aud
good mauagerl--in short, everything
that the copy-bocks say a woman should
bci Aud, notwithstanding that you
possess all thcs, virtues which ate ordi.
narily sigmatizcd as unattractivc, that
Guo YOU charming' Why not let me
tell you that--that--G love you'
Miss Warng--Mr. Grayl (She drops
her work into her lap and ga1cs at him
half.frightenel, half.plcased aud wholly
astorlshed.)
Gray (whc ia looking at the toe Of his
boot, which he fcks with his crop,
while he adds deliberately Yes, thi,
Il love you.
Miss Waring Cooking more astonshed
and slightly aausci)-Are you quite
sure about itl
Gray dnuocently) Quite sure-dhen
looking u? ami noting her mocked ex.
prtsson)--you don't believe me
Mss Waring-llardly
Gay-Wny- why-you must believe
me! do love youl Indeed, indeed |
/ 10! On, tell me- how | can prove itl
miss Wuring slightly shrugs her shout.
ders.) Have not ridden over here on
an averas e OF twice week for the last
three months.
! Miss Warlug-Yes.
Gray--liavc not staid aud staid and
staidl
/ Miss Wauug-Yes.
ably dulll
Miss Waring with enthusipsmJ oh,
yes!
| Gray-Welll
Miss Waring--And is that your idea
OF lovel 10 ride over 20 see the beloved
object whenever the'f Is nowhere else b.
90. irhen TO dang 'oout the place Idtiii
il is time to 80 hone, in lazy sort of
way. talking when you are so inclined,
and more often not opening your lips for
hall-h0urs together, Sometimes that
kind OF behavior might not be altogether
Objectionable in friend, but is hardly
the sort OF thing that 1 should expect
| from-my lover.
Gray (doggcdly, as he riscs)-Eyi.
IDENTITY do not know how to show il;
but love you more than anything else
in the world. Won't you believe met
Miss Waring (ooks at him more kind.
/ ly; then, with CLEAN OF mischief in her
eye, as she also rises rs il to bid him
od-by)-''rhe proof of the pudding,
Mr.. Gray, is in
Gray-The eatiugw Qt would be
quite impossible, in stage direction, to
explain how it all happened; but, as he
had finished the proverb, John Gray held
Jane Wariug in his arms, and the latter
was submitting to being kissed by him
rs if she had been accustomed to nothing
else from her childhood up. Puck.