The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-09-11
INFATUATED WITH A WIG.

| have sometimes felt that was con-
slant by the merest chance, and as my
marriage has turned out happily, am
grateful for the interposition, though
taking no credit to myself. | ought To
say that | never told this story to my
wife, and she would be scarcely likely
TO appreciate il if did, but mean to
set the truth down here, though shall
not give the real names.
will 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 posi-
ton held out no prospect of my max
ing her Mrs. George Grey for many
years.
She was the second daughter of a
rector in the shires, and | had met her
when I was i'm the neighborhood, fish
ing. An acquaintance 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 loveliest and
sweetest girl | had ever seen in my
life.
stayed down i'm Threegates fish
ing) for nearly month, though | had
originally intended to limit my visit
to a week, and think that Amy was
sorry when at last | told her | had de
cided to go.
al shall never forget this holiday of
mine,n | said 'but now | must bring
it to an end, and get back to the dust
and CRIME of the Temple. Stewing in
chambers, shall often think of Three
gates, and the trout stream and-and
my friends"
Unconsciously, | spoke as if / were
returning to legal treadnill, though
if received couple briefs year
held myself extremely fortunate.
81 am glad you found il so enjoya-
able" she murmured. at is a pretty
place, / think"
She had never looked so beautiful !;
| was saying goodbye to her; and
was twenty-five. The result might
have been foreseen, | took her hands
i'm mine, daffodils and all, and told her
that L loved her, that. / had never
loved before, could never love again.
cried to her that / had not the right
to ask any girl to become my wife,
but my passion was stronger than my
self-restraint. She was my world, my
all ; l adored her, Life without her
was too awful to contemplate. Would
she, could she, reconcile herself TO
waiting for beggar who to-day, could
offer her nothing but the widest de
votion that had ever been laid at a
woman's feet?
Words, altogether unprecedented,
broke from me in torrent of fervOr.
My heart pounded furiously; my excite
ment seemed even to communicate
itself to the rocks among the boughs
overhead, which 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,-I was en-
gagged
Well, postponed my departure for
three days, and those days were de-
lightful. Her father-least mercena-
ry of men-eonsented cordially.
We were both young enough to be
able to afford to wait, he said, and L
was adopted as one of the family with
out demur. The girls were warm in
congratulations-no fellow ever had
nicer rsisters-in-law-and Amy was the
divinest little fiancee that it was pos
sible for human imagination to con-
ceive. Yes, those three days wer', the
weeks that followed, when | wrote and
received love letter per diem. and it
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
prospects, as / have said were of the
vaguest. was still doing nothing to
speak of at the Bar, and even when |
ran down to zee Amy, and she did her
best to cheer me up, the futility ofher
encouragement was not to he blinded
by a man possessed of a tolerably eleaI
sight.
ave must be patient, George" she
would say; Everything will come out
right in the end, / am sure OF it and
when the briefs are rolling in, We shall
! look back at all this time and laugh.
At length decided TO do what many
another young fellow has done SINH
larly circumstanced. / resolved to con-
sign my profession to the deuce, and t.
seek pastures new in America. Wha
proposed should be my plan of cam
paign in America is at this date no
very clear to ME, but / remember tina
il seemed to me then a most desirable
and practical step to take and not eveI
Micawber departing for Australia fel
more confident of something turning
up" on the foreign shore than /.
OF course, Amy wept, and was desc
late, but we had been engaged now TO
nearly three years, and firmly, ant
with the business-like lucidity ol
which i prided myself reminded
myself most strongly of the Micaw
bers in introspection II showed he
it was the only course for US. l salt
that England called il "the OLE
country already-was played out. Ii
the United States, / observed, energ.