The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-11-14
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Now, in this you cnn aid mo If you
will and do no injury to any ono. For
you nro FREQ to como or go Us you listcth,
| having no wife or sweetheart to dcmand
| thu why or tho wherefore of your actions,
| yol who loveth no ono, but rather judgeth
! woman TO be snare and n temptation,
which Judgment is just in many cases,
can, by simply appearing in public places,
| Mt tho plays at tho games and various
othor entertainments and tournaments
with my daughter, who is young and rs
good rs sho is beautiful, and whom also
shall accompany, set in motion tho tongues
of tho gossips and cause Thorn to carry
tales and rumors thereof to the cars of him
who thoughtlessly tarricth in distant
Chimes and who, the spirit of jealousy hay
Ing boon aroused, will, through fear of
losing tho idol of his heart, cut short his
vain wandcrings and haston hithor to claim
his own and abide with his own.
Therefore despse mo not beyond meas
ure, pray you, but rather conspiro with
mo, but without my daughters knowl-
edge that these things may be brought to
pass, for otherwise tho light of hor coun-
tonance will illumino my life no more ut
all
And now that / may not weary you
with much talking OF consume your time
with idle words, but rather that you may
fully consider tho things l have spoken, I
take myself hence"
And inasmuch as she was tho truthful
ana candid woman whom no had Thought
did not cXist and whose non cst-ctlness he
had long regretted, the misogynist yielded
himself to her plans, for suspicion was
lulled within him.
Then, coming to- sec the girl, no was
well pleased with her, for she was we'll be-
haved and not OVERLOAD. Moreover ho
knew She had found favor in tho eyes of
another, for he believed she was bctrothcd
and about to bc we'd, and tho appreciation
OF one man gocth many leagues in form
ing the favorable opinion of his brother
concerning woman.
For If ono man wants her so also doth
another Whereas if no man wants her,
even he who thinks no wants her wants
her not.
Then, after many days had gone by,
days of great hope and rejoicing for the
widow-for all things were coming her
way-and days of speculation among the
| gossips rs to what manner of witchcraft
| was employed by tho mitc To cnsnare the
confirmed bachelor, the misogynist, who,
| withal, was man of consequence and
honor, having lived long in tho land us
one whom the Lord loved and to whose
| estate much of tho yellow dross of COM
merce had attached itself, tho truthful
| and candid woman again spoke to him,
saying:
REJOICE with mo and be glad, oh, good
and faithful friend, for our plans have
borne fruit, and our banners arc crowned
| with victory
3" Then rejoice, I say, for tomorrow the
| bridegroom comcth, hc and his attendants
full twoscorc strong. that the occasion
may not lack eclat, and tho festivities will
take in many days. Through your gen
erous aid and corporation this happy day
hath been fastened, and now all that re-
| maincth for You To do 10 fill tho measure
OF your graciousncss is to give away the
bride, and, in sooth, I say 10 you it can he
done mono too soon, that acknowledgements
may be avoided, for truly the girl holds
you very dear in her affections"
And the words of the widow smotc ths
| man heart and soul, for II went grievous.
ly against the grain to be thus summary
shunted off to give place to another, for
the command, "Thus far shalt thou go
and no further" was not given to man,
and farther he would 40, Jared ho better
| or worse.
Therefore, though he uttered no word,
he swore an oath that sizzcd in it's fer.
rency, declaring 10 all things both high and
low that when the morrow came with tho
laggard bridegroom he'd find never n
bride Whiting to receive him, but instead
the tidings of her marriage to him who
Ind been known to all as the confirmed
bachelor, for that very night would he
fec with the maiden to tho inviting shores
of an adjacent land where all obstacles in
tho way of sudden and unprecedented
marriages are swept away that lovers may
be cxpcditiously launched hcadong on the
turbulent sea of matrimony
Ha! y little plotting on his own hook
would lie do and surprise them all.
And II WAS done even as he said
But, alas! tic surprise was in store for
himself alone.
Thus is told and recorded the story OF
the marriage OF him whose title and
condition matrinony changed from that
of tho confirmed bachelor TO the confirmed
misogynist on account OF the deceit Irac-
ticcd upon him
For in those days, for tho sake Of food
and raimcnt and n shelter for her head,
many things wero done by woman and nc
counted 'wOmanly" which nov she who
is cmancipatcl would look upon with hor-
ror and scorn 10 do, her boomerang. bicy-
cling and balloting craze notwithstand-
ing.-Chicago Tribune.
Dngbatl We had almost forgotten the