Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-10-27

l wish my father to speak OF affairs
to your father The love has to do
with Others"
BY this time Lucille began to get an
inkling of what he was driving ut.
Was 1t natural feminine inclination
to throw Off man who was bent on
a proposal, or had the opportunity to
get even with one who had made an
adverse criticism on her painting some
thing to do with It? At any rate she
was bent on assisting her proposer In
entangling himself.
What IN the world have two old
men, one of whom is dead, to do with
love that exists In some one else2"
she asked
ut makes for great much. IL u
man loves
ut isn't his father that loves a man
in heaven, is it?'
man."
"Who loves a woman, the live man
or the dead one?"
"Why you not understand? The ia.
Their of the man who loves, he visits
the father Of the woman he loves
What has he to do with it?"
Everything. He says, 4 desire that
you honor my son by giving him your
daughter for wife"
whats the son doing all this time.
playing marbles or humble the-peg or
hopscotchT
1t was now NJ. de Touches turn to
look astonished. He had never heard
Of such games as mumble-the-p peg and
hopscotch. But with his establishment
there was distress.
~ see what you mean" said Lucille
alphabetically. This friend of yours
IL In love with girl whose father IL
dead He wants to ask the father for
the daughter, but can't get at him."
mot my friend. No. no: not my
friend, but
SIS he your enemyT'
ale is myself" shouted CASTOR In
desperation
"Oh, 1t Is you who are In love? Well,
why do you need father to tell tho
lady's father who Is IN heaven that
you love his daughter2 He can't be
expected to take an interest IN affairs
on this little globe, whereas II you
have proposition to make to girl
quite likely she would he very glad to
hear It,"
"And she would not think re gentle
man--how you call it--too freshi"
IF he were a Frenchman she would
think all the more Of him for cutting
the stupid red tape that the French
people have used for centuries"
what have ze red tape to do with u
matter of lover
you're paying me Off In my own
coin, aren't your replied Lucille.
ut IL 70 coln-Ze funds-ze settle
ments that ! want for my father. |
wish for him to arrange all that Then
| tell you that love you, Mees War
rem, and my life, II do not have you.
is one YER big wilderness
Miss Warren, though disposed to
smile at the only two real American
words "ver' big In the declaration,
was touched by the mans offer OF his
love md ceased TO torment him by pre-
tending not to understand him. She
encouraged him to discard the conven.
tional and take up sentiment by plac.
ing her hand In his
"If you will not be my wife" he said.
encouraged by this. 81 will throw my.
self In the Seine"
Unfortunately there came at this
moment to Miss Warren remem-
brance that the proposer had turned
down her picture with the single ex
pressiye word "execrable"
How can you expect one whose
work which cost her months Of toll.
you called execrable, to marry your
Work In English you have say
ing, AN work and no play II you
had been making great picture II
would have been the opposite. All play
and no work."
Lucille laughed. You are right" she
said. II struggled over that picture.
Genius according to my Interpretation
of genius, doesn't struggle. What 1t
does seems very easy"
Then she became serious and told
the man who had proposed to her that
In America usually, II man loved
woman he told her 80, and II she wish.
ed to marry him she referred him to
her parent or brother but this was In
most cases meaningless dead letter
that had been inherited from European
ancestors. She took his proposition
under consideration, but he did not
get an affirmative answer for many
months and after many repetltlons OF
his proposal. Then she said to him:
Monsieur. / dreamed last night that
died and went to heaven, where I
saw my father. lie told me that your
father had also died aAA on Joining
him had asked him for my hand for
his son. My father told me that he
had said 10 your father that he had
no objection to my marrying you; for,
being IN heaven while was on earth,
my mundane career did not interest
him. Papa said that your father spoke
OF the settlements; but, since Ameri-
cans who marry become one, he didn't
think settlements were necessary.
Then woke up"
"Ah, mndemoiselle, you make me
YER happy. T, too, go to heaven since
{ have won you"
Such were the proposal and accept.
ance Of Lucille Warren. II IN impossl-
bic 10 imagine an English or French
girl playing such Il part. But there Is
no part Of which an American girl IL
incapable II she Is inclined to play IT,
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