Year: 1876

edition. That my own heart
must tell me what hers felt at that mo-
ment, and must pardon all inaccuracies
in expression whereupon she subsided
into her pocket-handkerchief.


| believe did the correct thing-I
believe kissed her hand-I have heard
her say that | appeared enraptured. 1t
may be; | cannot say anything about it
l remember nothing between the conclu-
sion of her speech and my finding my
self leaning exhausted against a fence
quarter of mile off Then the whole
horrid truth burst upon me. With no
intention of doing so, with no idea but
of single blessedness and peace, l had
become an engaged man, another per-
sons property and that other person a
young woman.


/ went to bed and dreamed that had
successfully emigrated to the Sandwich
Islands. There | had just wooed and
won dusky bride, when her features
changed into Miss Cilly Busse, who
grasping me by the hair, and bearing a
parchment inscribed breach of prom
ise," hurried me again into wakefulness
and misery.


When one has been particularly hap
Ply the night before, the probability is
that the next morning will bring with
it vague sense of misery but there is
the conclusion, that if you 60 to bed
particularly wretched, you are pretty
certain to wake in tolerably good spirits
the morning after. When / opened my
eyes and looked my sorrows full in the
face, did not feel so thoroughly dis
mayed as before, and was further en-
couraged by receiving summons to leave
Lilyville at once, ON important business.
| would be out of the way at any rate,
and who could tell what might turn up
At any rate, ought to go and bid good
bye to Cilly Busse.


Miss Cilly opened the door for ME her
self She looked very fresh and bloom
ing, and, though her nose did turn up,
her eyes were pretty, and | stopped at
them and did not examine further. Her
lips were round and soft-so were her
cheeks. So strongly was | impressed
with her beauty that | involuntarily
kissed Miss Cilly Busse, and after had
done SO, | found that / liked it. Miss
Cilly did not struggle very hard, so
did it again. Miss Cilly said that was
enough so we went in and sat side by
side on the parlor sofa. If a gentleman
does not want to make immediate and
desperate love to young woman, dc
not let him sit on sofa beside her, par.
ticularIy a small sofa-crede erperto.
had not been in that position five min
utes, and had not told half my futur,
intentions, when | discovered that my
arms were around Miss Cilly's waist, ant
her head on my shoulder. Consequent
ly, / began to feel very bitterly at th,
necessity of parting, and to express my
self SO enthusiastically that Miss Cilly
was absolutely moved to tears. Yet
oh the tickleness of youth. No soone1
had | got out of the house, where | hat
just been swearing eternal constancy
than | fervently hoped never to enter il
again. Once out of sight of Miss Cilly
my feelings toward her began to cool
and by the time that / was seated in th,
stage that was to bear me away, wa.
as impatient of the chain that bound m,
to her as l had ever been before.


/ sat in the stage, unmindful of m,
fellow passengers, and weighed down By
gloomy reflections on my destiny. Afte
time | became nervously aware of tn
fact that my opposite neighbor was look
ing at me. Being naturally aroused b,
this to return the same, a sudden eleva
ton of my eyes brought them in contac
with the glance Of two soft, dark orba
cleaning timidly from the recess of |
travelling hat From that instant / fel
that / was gone-that l was madly il
love that naught on earth should sepa
rate me from the prOprietress of thos
heavenly eyes. | cast Miss Cilly Buss
from my recollection. 1 was soon il
easy conversation with Rose Mayland-
such she informed me was her name.


found out that we were both going t,
remain some time, and that might cal
and see her if liked. / did not fine
the slightest difficulty in visiting Mis-
Rose Maryland. After repeated calls


became convinced that Rose reciprocate,
my sentiments for she did not appea
bored by my visits, and / thought tha
no humanity could stand two visits day
of indefinite length each, without eithe
being bored or in love with the visitor
| would have cast myself at Roses fee