Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-23
IN LOVE WITH A WIG.

8rntcful LOT the lntcrpOSitlOn, tnOuRh TAX.
Ing no credit 10 myself I ought 10 say
that ] have never told this story To my
wife, and she would bc scarcely likely To
appreciate n II did, but mean 10 set tho
truth down here, though shall not give
the roal names.
I will call myself George Grey, and my
wifo will call Amy--noe Forrors Well,
was engaged TO Miss Fcrrcrs, and loved
her passionately, the moro passionately
perhaps because my position held out no
prospect Of my making hor Mrs. George
Grey for years.
She WAS the second daughter Of rector
I'm the shiros and had met her when
wns In the neighborhood fishing. An nc
quaintance took mo To tho house, and 10
was "a very pleasant one The rector was
charming man, his daughters were worthy
Of him, and, as To Amy, she was the love
Host and sweetest girl had ever seen IN
my life.
I staid down In Threcgates fishing, for
nearly month, though had originally in
tended TO limit my visit Co IA week, and
think that Amy was sorry when ut last
told her had decided To CO.
II shall never forget this holiday Of
mine" said, but now must bring IL
To an end and get back TO the dust and
grimo of the Temple. Slowing In cham
bcrs, shall often think OF Threcgates and
the trout stream and-and my friends"
Unconsciously adopted the tone OF
q G. at least spoke as IL were returning
TO legal trcadnill, though II received
couple Of briefs II year held myself cx-
trcmcly fortunate.
We wcro in tho rectory garden, and she
was wearing q broad brimmcd hat Of straw
and held bunch Of daffodils In her hands.
Was it my fancy, or when sho bent over
them did she do it To hide the regret In her
face? II am glad you have found 1t en-
joyable, she murmured. 1T Is pretty
place, think"
Sho had never looked SO beautiful.
was saying "Goodby'' To her, and was %.
The result might have been foresecn
took her hands in mine, daffodils and all,
and told her that loved her; that had
never lovod 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 IA 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 L 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, I postponed my departure for three
days, and those days were delightful. Her
father-least mercenary Of men-consent-
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 congratu-
lations-no fellow ever had nicer sisters
in-law-and Amy was the divinest little
flancee that it was possible for human
imagination to conceive. Yes, those three
days were ecstatic and SO were tho weeks
that followed when wrote and received a
love letter per diem, and it 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.
/ was depressed by degrees. My pros
poets, as l have said, were of the vaguest.
1 was still doing nothing to speak of at
tho 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 q toll
erably clear sight.
"We must be patient, George" she
would say. Everything will come right
at the end. am sure of IL, and when the
briefs are rolling in we shall look back at
all this time and laugh"
thought it very possible that I should
laugh under those conditions, but there
was q 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
circumstanced. I 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.
VI CourSo Amy Wcpo ouu WtAS ucSointc,
but we had been engaged now for nearly
three years, and firmly and with the busi-
nesslike lucidity on which prided myself
Il remind myself most strongly of the
Micawbers in retrospection-I showed her
that 1t was the only course for us. 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 a sinking ship-the sinking
ship" was the bar-was u cowardly and
disastrous thing, declared, and finally I
painted q picture Of my rising to dizzy
heights In the United States and her COM
ing across to me In ~ months time to be
my wife.
The pictures Of making her homo in the
united States did not seem to attract ner,
90 altered that part, and In the amended
version I returned after IL months with
my pile In my pocket, and we settled In
London