Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-03-18

| teSSlOn IS terrible.
Lord A. Their, my dear, don't make it.
Gets up anG leans over herr What IS
the matter, Isabel? You look quite
pale and anxious
! Lady y. 1t is the confession
Lord A. Then | say don't make it
don't want your confessions, my dear
Lady A. You must hear me. Sit down
! and listen
Lord A. Well-you have your own way
always. Is Vernon to have the confes-
| sion as well?
Lady A. You shall answer that question
yourself. Oh. Guy-hOW shall | begin?
Lord \. Better begin somewhere near
the end-so as to get it over. That's
the best way, always, with confessions.
Come, Isabel my dear, one would
think you had committed some kind of
crime.
Lady A. believe it is a crime. But
you shall hear. It's the confession of
q situation
Lord A A situation? Well-let us have
the situation. In play, they tell me,
the situation is everything.
| Lady a. There was once a boy ard
girl
Lord A. Not uncommon The world is
very much made that way.
Lady A. Oh! Guy, believe met is very,
very serious.
Lord A. Go on, dear-with the boy and
girl.
Lady A They were very much together
when they were children. When the
boy went to school they wrote to each
other
Lord A. Dear me! This is very rare
and wonderful.
Lady A. They continued to write to each
! other
Lord A. Did they, really?
Lady A. Please do not mock, Guy. It
is very serious How can | go on?
| WnlI fn al 9th
the girl had come out, when they ought
not, you knOW-it was a secret engage
/ ment-becauSe they thought they were
in love with each other.
Lord A. Lots of young people write to
each other because they fancy they are
in love. 1t is a common hallucination
1t is not generally known, but half the
private houses in this country are pri-
vate lunatic asylums in consequence
Lady a. Guy-1 am so miserable and
you will not be serious.
Lord A; Let me take kidney, my dear
est wife, and a cup of tea and then |
will listen. Sorry Charlie is not here
while the kidneys are hot-Will you
take one? or an egg? Nothing? A lit
tie buttered toast-there noW-silence
for a brief space. Cats breakfast.)
Lady A, Gays her head in her hand
and sighs.)
Lord a. Iooks up Dear child
F'inds and takes her hand and kisses
it, you don't look well enough to 90
on with the story. Suppose [ finish
it for you-Pushes chair round, takes
up newspaper and makes a kind of
fan with it as he speaks) Yes, |
think l can finish that story. They
wrote to each other, this pair OF semi
attached lovers, for some time. Their
letters became ardent, as becomes
young lovers. AS for the young gen.
tleman, Romeo himself was not a more
" o1n 7 no
never seen his letters, but | can quite
understand them-because, you see,
my dear, this girl was the most lovely
girl in the world, and the sweetest
and the best-quite the best-my dear
-(Kisses her hand again)-quite the
best. | say Crises and kisses her fore
Lady A. Guy-what do you mean?
Lord y. l am finishing the story for
Lady A. But--but-that is my story,
except that the girl was nothing of
the kind: She was capable, though
she didn't know it, of the vilest de-
! ceptiOn.
Lord y. Don't interrupt, if you please,
Lady Avenel-Iet me see-Oh! yes
they went on writing to each other
until somehOw-some day. really
don't know how, they came to the con-
clusion that they had only been play
ing at love and they didn't mean it
III Lne least.
Lady A. 1t was his exaggeration-he
protested too much-So that the girl
began to ask herself-and she found
out
Lord A. Yes-She found out? Come,
I've given you u good gift-now you
Lady a. She found out that IL mean
she did not love the young man at
all. And IL mean, she-told him she
had made Il great mistake and | begged
his forgiveness
Lord a. Well?
Lady A. And he wrote back to say that
he. too, had made q mistake and We
l mean-they were to remain good
friends always and nothing more-SO
that was all over.
Lord A. Happily. All over-else what
would have happened to the other
Lady A. What do you mean?
Lord a. Well: there was another
man. wasn't there?
Lady A. -yes-There was another
Lord A. You see-I am always right
Lady A. She was ashamed of this
stupid love passage-and she told him
nothing about it.
Lord A. After all, a boy and girl
business. What did it matter?
Lady a. She ought to have told him
Not to tell him was cowardice. He
thought the girl was fresh and lnnO-
cent and had never heard any words
of love-
Lord A. You think he had that opin-
ion?
Lady A. am sure of it.
Lord a. | find [ must finish the story,
my dear. after all. 1t is your turn to
listen. This girl did not tell her real
lover that she had made a mistake.
But as it was off with the old love be-
fore it was on with the new, and as
there never lad been more than d boy
and girl fancy. there was no reason
why she should tell him anything I'M
less she chose. Her new lover neither
expected nor desired any such confess
siOn-he knew that he had the affec-
tons Of the girl; lie trusted her alto
gether; and if he had known this thing
it would not have made him trust her
the less
Lady a. But she ought to have told
him
Lord A. I doubt it. But it is a knotty
point. We will argue it another time.
Well-they were married-these two
and they lived happy ever afterwards.
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