SOUNDING HER LOVER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 425, 17 August 1880, Page 3

SOUNDING HER LOVER.

She was young and fair, and a tear glistened in her eye as she laid her curly head upon his ehoulderand exclaimed : " Oh George, I think if I found you did not love me I should die." " My darling," he answered, passing his hand gently round her dimpled chin, " I will always love you. Do you think I would marry you if I did not feel sure of it ? In a few days, at the altar, I shall fow to Jove you all my life, arid I will ieepmy row." * A lovely kind of beatific happiness played for a moment like sunshine on her lips, and then she whispered : "Oh George, I like to hear yon talk like that, you have been so good to me. You have given me a diamond locket, and a gold watch and chain, and rings that an angel might wear outside her gloves and not be ashamed, and if I thought that one day you'd be sorry you'd given me all these nice things and want to take them back again, I should surely break my heart."

" Oh, my own darling, there is nothing on earth that-.could happen that would make me re pom) giving you a few tokens of my love, or make me want;fthem back again." . She sprang from his arms like"a joyous deer, she shook back her sunny.curls, and with a whole poem in her hazel ( exclaimed : "Oh George, you have; 'taken a ,load from my heart. I've comejto say 1 can't marry you! after all, because I've seen somebody I like better, and I thought you'd want your presents back again."