New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-28
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telling her that he did not intend TO carry ont his
promise to marry her so affected her health that
she was unfit for school for a week For long
time afterward she suffered in health and feelings
NicoI sought TO soften the blow By writing
7 know I have acted very cruelty toward you.
but couldn't help myself For the last few months
1zed ~ i6 I've no reason. but sun think that
l couldn't make you happy am sure 1 Owed you
you yet but not with the same true and sincere
Don't be going away with the idea that I've given
my love to another I honestly say 1 haven't, and
have no intentions
Perhaps a novelist could explain the difference
between his old and his new love for her. dif-
ference that was beyond his power analyZe- Evil
IDENTIFY he spent some thought on this FOR IN
later letter he writes 70 her;
know I have grfevousIy offended you but IL
get married, and have no real love Or
affection for each other What sort Or ne would L
be? No comparison the trial now that would De
then. I do love you but often think II a sisteriy
love. I would rather die a hundred times than
enter into that state were there not 20 os re loRe
The cases on record in which a young woman's
reply was IN be a sister 10 YOU are fairly IRE
quent but the manly promise. TN be a brother TO
YOU is rather uncommon Miss Duncan, however.
was no more content with this assurance than the
average young man who receives similar one
when he wants the relation 70 be much nearer
Miss Duncan's counsel said the other side had
offered decree OF 400. but not cash. and IT was
record that the defender had no means
Then he might as well have O1ered t500, sug-
gested the Sheriff amid laughter
1nere was considerable sparrfnE about the mans
intention 10 buy public house. indicating the
possession of means The account in the newspaper
ends thus:
Agents were afterward heard. and His Lordship
took the case to avizandUu-
All such accounts end by saying that the case
was taken 'to avizandurr' Several other legal
terms strike the American reader odd Thus the
plaintiff Is always in such actions called the pur-
suer''; the defendant. the "defender- Proof was
led means that testimony was taken The bin OF
complaint is the .COndescendence-"
The same newspaper which tells about the Dun
can-NicoI case contains an article about another
suit in which the defender admitted the promise
and asked that damages be assessed He was thus
quoted:
Defender in his answers 10 pursuer's averrentS.
states that she ceased 70 write 20 him after l+t1
May Of this year, and that. IN consequence OF this
cessation OF correspondence on her part, ne made
INQUIRIES regarding purSuer, and aScertaiued that
she had been in love before. and had endeavored
married but had failed that she was OF
unstable disposition. and steadfasr n her az
lection. and mat she was In the habit OF falling
in love for q time, or having a Irritation with any
take ner fancy Upon receipt OF this information
defenders suspicious became confirmed.
pOrary ardor OF ebull.tiOn OF affection which he
might have exhibited in the course OF the CORE
next letter from pursuer- about 18th July 1893
he brea thing in less intoxicating atnosphere
and ultimately arrived the decision that the cor
Jurisprudence that had taken place between them
open correspondence. but he repealed all such ad-
VanceS-