Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-09-28
IN LOVE WITH A WIG.


I have sometimes felt that was con-
slant by the merest chance, and as my
marriage has turned out happily 1 am
grateful for the interposition, though tax
ing no credit to myself. I ought to say
that I have never told this story to my
wife, and she would be scarcely likely to
appreciate it if did, but mean to set the
truth down here, though shall not give
the real names.
Twill call myself George Grey, and my
wife will call Amy-nee Ferrers. Well,
/ was engaged to Miss Ferrers, and loved
her passionately, the more passionately
perhaps because my position held out no
prospect of my making her Mrs. George
Grey for years.
She was the second daughter of a rector
in the shires, and had met her when
was in the neighborhood fishing. An &C.
quaintance took me to the house, and it
was very pleasant one. The rector was
charming man, his daughters were worthy
Of him, and, as to Amy she was the love-
Hest and sweetest girl had ever seen in
my life.
I staid down in Threegates, fishing, for
nearly month, though had originally in
tended to limit my visit to week, and
think that Amy was sorry when at last
told her had decided to go.
II shall never forget this holiday Of
NINE" said, "but now I must bring it
to an end and get back to the dust and
CRIME Of the Temple. Stewing in cham
bers, l shall often think Of Threogates and
tho trout stream and-and my friends
Unconsciously adopted the tone of
&C at least. Ispoke rs If were returning
to legal treadmill, though If received a
couple of briefs year I held myself ex'
tremely fortunate.
We were in the rectory garden, and she
was wearing broad brimmod hat of straw
and held bunch Of daffodils in her hands.
Was it my fancy, or when she bent over
them did she do 1t to hide the regret in her
face? ~ am glad you have found 1T en-
joyable," she murmured. 1T is pretty
place, think"
She had never looked SO beautiful. 1
was saying "Goodby" to her, and l was rs.
The result might have been foreseen l
took her hands in mine daffodils and all,
and told her that loved her; that had
never loved before, could never love again.
I cried to her that had not the right to
ask any girl to be my wife, but my pas
sion was stronger than my self restraint.
She was my world, my all. adored her.
Life without her was an agony too awful
to contemplate. Would she, could she,
reconcile herself to waiting for beggar
who today could offer her nothing but the
widest devotion that had ever been laid
at woman's feetP
Words altogether unprecedented broke
from me in a torrent of fervor. My heart
pounded furiously; my excitement seemed
even to communicate itself to the rocks
among the boughs overhead, who cawed
so violently that they appeared to be
drowning my speech. When ceased, her
head dropped, and my darling was all
smiles and tears at once The daffodils
lay scattered on the lawn, and was en-
gagged
Well, 1 postponed my departure for three
days. and those days were delightful. Her
father-least mercenary Of men-consent-
ed cordially. We were both young enough
to be able to afford to wait, he said and l
was adopted as one of the family without
demur The girls were warm in congratu-
in-law-and Amy was the divinest littlo
flancee that 1t was possible for human
Imagination to conceive. Yes, those three
days were ecstatic, and so were the weeks
that followed when wrote and received q
love letter per diem, and 1T was only as
the weeks merged into months and the
months into year that l began to ask
myself when and how expected to be
able to marry.
was depressed by degrees. My pros
poets, as have said were of the vaguest.
I was still doing nothing to speak of at
the bar, and even when / ran down to see
Amy, and she did her best to cheer me up,
the futility of her encouragement was not
to be blinded by man possessed Of toll
erably clear sight.
"We must be patient, George" she
would say. Everything will como right
at tho end. lam sure of 1t, and when the
briefs are rolling in we shall look back at
all this time and laugh. ~"
thought 1t very possible that should
laugh under those conditions, but there
was gulf between the present and that
opulent future which her words did moth
ing to bridge
Al lonHGn ueClucu " 10 WnHU many
another young fellow has done similarly
circumstanced. resolved to consign my
profession to the deuce and to seek pas
lures new and America What proposed
should be my plan Of campaign in Amer
lea is at this date not very clear to me, but
remember that it seemed to me then a
most desirable and practical step to take,
and not even Micawber departing for Aus
tralia felt more confident Of something
turning up on the foreign shores than I.
OF course Amy wept and was dcsolate,
but we had been engaged now for nearly
three years, and firmly and with the bust
nessliko lucidity on which prided myself
Il remind myself most strongly Of the
Micawbers in retrospection-I showed her
that it WINS the only course for us. I said
that England-I called 1t ''the old coun-
try already-was played out. In the
United States, observed, energy and
youth had a chance Of coming to the front.
To cling to a sinking ship-the "sinking
ship was the bar-was cowardly and
disastrous thing, declared, and finally
painted picture Of my rising to dizzy
heights in the United States and her COM
Ing across to me III 10 months time to be
my wife.
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