Miscellany.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 456, 3 December 1880, Page 3

Miscellany.

A LOVER'S REVENGE

An awful case of the consequences of refusing a young man's honorable love is reported on the West side. A really nice young man fell in love with a handsome young girl, the only daughter of a handsome and well-preserved widow of thirty eight, and offered her marriage. She ridiculed him because he was twentysix, and said he was old enough to be her father, and so on, and with her taunts goaded him to such a pitch of frenzy tlint he swore he would be fearfully revenged. Accordingly he proposed to and married the wretched girl's mother. Now that wretched girl has to wear stout leather boots two sizes too large for her, and go to bed at 9 p.m., and eschew the theatre, chocolate, crammels, ice cream, and, in fact, everything else that makes life worth living for, her step-father's nominal object being that when she grows up she may be as splendidly matured a woman as her mother, thecompliment implied in this inducing the mother to second him enthusiastically ; and when a young man comes round to see that wretched girl her stepfather bounces him down the frontsteps, and throws his hat after him, and tells the wretched girl that the young man is not a fit companion for her, and that he is as solicitous for her future as he would be for his own child, and, altogether, in the kindest manner possible, he makes that wretched girl even wish that she were dead as many as a hundred times a day. Let all beautiful girls who are even tempted to refuse the matrimonial offers of the eligible young men be warned by her unhappy fate.