The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-08-08
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. 1 ought to say
that 1 have never told this story to my
wife, and she would be scarcely likely to
appreciate 1t If did, but mean to set the
truth down here, though shall not give
the real names.
1 will call myself George Grey, and my
wife will call Amy-noe Ferrers. Well,
I was engaged to Miss Ferrers, and lo,ed
her passiopately, 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 shirrs, and l had met her when
was in the neighborhood fishing. An ac-
quaintance took me to the house, and 1t
was very pleasant one. The rector was
charming man. his daughters were worthy
of him, and, as to Amy, she was the love-
liest and sweetest girl had ever seen in
my life.
1 staid down in Threegates, fishing, for
nearly month, though had originally In
tended to limit my visit to n week, and
think that Amy was sorry when at last 1
told her nau ueClueu 10 go.
1T shall never forget this holiday Of
mine" said, "but now 1 must bring 1t
to an end and get back to the dust and
CRIME of the Temple. Stewing in cham
bers shall often think of Threegates and
the trout stream and-and my friends"
Unconsciously adopted the tone of a
@. G. at least. Ispoke as II were returning
to legal treadmill, though If received a
L. - 1x.i. g. II hnId nv
tremely fortunate.
We were In the rectory garden, and she
was wearing broad brimmed hat Of straw
and held bunch of daffodils in her hands.
Was 1t my fancy. or when she bent over
them did she do it to hide the regret in her
facep II am glad you have found it en-
joyable," ",she murmured. "It is a pretty
place, think"
She had never looked so beautiful.
was saying F" "Goodby' to her, and was 20.
The result might have been foreseenl
| took her hands in mine, daffodils and all,
and told her that loved her; that had
never loved before, could never love again.
/ 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, postponed my departure for three
days, and those days were delightful. Her
father-least mercenary of men-oonsent-
cd cordially. We were both young enough
to be able to afford to wait, he said and
was adopted as one of the family without
demur. The girls were warm In oongratu-
lations-no fellow ever had nicer sisters
in-law-and Amy was the divinest little
flancee that 1t was possible for human
Imagination to conceive. Yes, those three
days were eostatic, 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 began to ask
myself when and how l expected to be
able to marry.
I was depressed by degrees. My pros
poets, as have said, were of the vaguest,
1 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 a toll
erably clear sight
"We must be patient George" she
would say. Everything will come right
at the end. am 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.
AT length I decided to do what many
another young fellow has done similarly
sircumstanced. resolved to oonsign my
profession to the deuce and to seek pas
lures new and America. What proposed
should be my plan of campaign In Amer
ica Is at this date not very clear TO me, but
! remember that 1t seemed to me then q
hliooo uooiiabiO anu piucpiOdi nVop w vdhoi
and not even Mioawber departing for Aus
tralia felt more confident of something
turning up" on the foreign shores than I.
| or course Amy wept and was desolate,
but we had been engaged now for nearly
three years. and firmly and with the bust
nesslike lucidity on which prided myself
II remind myself most strongly of the
Mioawbers In retrospection--I showed her
that 1t was the only course for u.s. said
that England-I called it "the old coun-
try" already--was played out. In the
United States, observed, energy and
youth had chance of coming TO the front.
To cling to sinking ship--the sinking
ship" was the bar--was a oownrdly and
disastrous thing, declared, and finally
painted q picture OF my rising to dizzy
heights In the United States and her COM
ing across to me in IL months time to be
my wife.
The pictures of making her home in the