The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-06-09

of them.
After a few days it came to Rosa's
| knowledge that this young and hand
| some stranger had taken apartments,
/ and Intended, during the vacation at
| Oxford to reside i'll the village, for the
/ sake, he had caused it to be under
| stood, of the excellent fishing which
| was found in the neighborhood.
Rosa was not at all vain; yet never
I theless, she could not help believing
i that it was principally, if not entirely,
/ on her account that this young gentle
/ man had taken up his abode in the vii
+! lage.
And Rosa had not erred in her con-
| lecture.
1t was not long before this Ok
Rosa in her walk, but very diff
| IDENTIFY, and with every outward show
of the most profound respect
| And again and again did the young
stranger meet and accost Rosa, who,
argue with herself how she might,
\ had not courage to avoid those meet
, ingS, in which, made confident by her
own innocence, and the respectful
manner of him who had soon become
the constant companion of those
| walks which were now to her a real
happiness, she perceived not the
+ slightest improperly.
The first words of love to which she
had ever listened were whispered to
her not unwilling ear by this Oxford
scholar; and soon and ardently, with
/ the first devotion of her fresh young
lheart, did Rosa reciprocate the love,
in whose profession she placed i'm
,plicit faith.
The name of this young gentleman,
! by birth an IriShman, was, he told
the object of his love, Loghlen
4 O'Meara, and he was the heir to a
baronetcy.
A dishonorable proposal to the pure
\ and innocent Rosa Willoughby would
have required an audacity which even
this anything but bashful young Irish
imam was very far from possessing.
And so, having Wrung from Rosa q
confession of her love for him, Loghl-
en- O'Meara proposed that they should
be privately married; and his excuse
for urging that the marriage should
4 be a private one, was that old, old
story to which women have listened
and believed in all time past, and
which will probably be listened to and
believed in the time that is to come.
stern man, who had already chosen
for him a wife, and that diSinheritance
would be the penalty for his known
.disobedience; but that presently he
would be of age, a large fortune in
| his own right, and so, entirely his own
+ master.
After all, it would be but a very
little time that Secresy concerning
tn hn
ed: and, more than that, once mar
.ried, he would contrive that his dear
Rosa should make acquaintance with
his father, who would soon be brought
to love her. and then, certain of par
don their marria~r should be con
feSSed.
"But YOU mean that l should write
10 nv mother and inform her of your
proposaI?" said Rosa.
''Do that, Rosa" exclaimed Loghlen,
| in seeming alarm, ''and you are lost
to me forever. Have you not told me
| how rigid are Mrs. Willoughby's no.
tons? Do you feel assured that she
would forbid and prevent our union,
| and that she would write to my fathrr
| of that serious disobedience to his
commands which l had contemplate
| ed?''
| Her mother woul act as Loghlen had
said, Rosa was well assured of that;
and it will be readily believed that
| the fond and unSuSpecting girl was
| ere long brought to obey in every re-
spect the wishes of her lover.
| When a lover would woo clandestine-
| Iy, it generally means that he is
rascal; and that Rosa should have
| had faith in the intentions of a man
/ who exacted from her a complete
oblivion of all the excellent precepts
which Mrs Willoughby had labored
so earnestly to fix upon her daught-
/ er's mind and heart had for excuse
only the poor girls youth and mex
perience.
Here is the marriage license, dear
est" Loghlen joyously cried, as he
one morning hastily entered Mrs. Will
oughby's cottage and gave a paper to
/ Rosa.
on the evening of that same day
their hands were joined in the parlor
of the cottage; the clergyman who
performed the marriage ceremony,
and Mrs Willoughby's seryant-mald,
whom Loghlen, with a small sum OF
money, had won to promised secresy,
/ being the only persons present, except
the lovers themselves.
1t was nearly three months after
this that Loghlen O'Meara. entering
the cottage one day, was met by the
servant girl who told him that MISS
Rosa had just received letter from
her mother, which announced that
that lady's presence in London nad
ceased to be necessary, since the rel
| o+iyn RI whom she had so long de-