Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-09-12
HER LAST SUITOR.


woman. Her sole aim in life had been
marriage, and she had not attained to IL.
And 50 It was she had reached the age of
45 with wintry looking ourls and lined
forehead md was still q maiden lady.
There was ono man Of her acquaintance,
Sir Daniel Warrington, who was her par
ticular ideal, aud she did not yet despair
of onthrallipR him. True, he was 20 years
her junior, but that was nothing nova
days.
SO she twisted her nair into wonderful
frisuro and went to receive dear Sir Dan
iel, whose interesting conversations were
such "a delight to her. lie must stop to
coy cup Of tea.
And he pressed her hand and talked
about her niece Miss Blanche Warren,
and asked how long she would be away
surely they would not stop after April and
they were well into March now-aud what
sort Of Il place was Cannes:
And when he got home and was turning
over the papers in his pockctbook he re-
WONDERED the photograph Belinda had
given him, and he stuck it absently upside
down on his mantelpccc aha drew back
the littlo sii6 curtains that covered a por
cclain portrait on an easel and ga2ed into
the smiling face with rapturUus admira-
ton.
she was such n merry little coquctte.
She had put him off whom he would have
spoken gono away to the south without
even telling him she was going. And yet
who but himself could call tho lovely blush
to her checks snd the light to her eyes?
So he hopac- and so he longed and won't
again ard again to see Belinda for any
scraps of news she would give him. And
wheu she started for Cannes he went to see
her off, trying to make up his mind to send
Blanche u message and ending only in
pressing Belinda s hand and asking for her
address.
But whom she arrived at their hotel she
found TO her CONSERVATION they had left
for Nice She arranged TO stay a few nights
at Cannes to get over tine fatigues Ct her
| journey
And it was well she did, for the morn
| ing she was leaving the post brought her
Is letter that made her hands trcmble to
| open. 1t was addressed to Miss b. War
rem" and she thought it was so affecting
of him to have remembered the initial of
her Christian name.
Yes, sure enough it was an offer Of
marriage from Sir Daniel Warrington, and
She smiled over the cxaggcration, You
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'''S 1890