He was asking her to marry him, and he was trembling in a perspiration fo nervous excitement for fear she wouldn't have him, and had got as far as "My morning light and evening star ! thou dearest and most precious angel of my heart! wilt thou " when she said:— " Well, Tom, before you sail much higher into lofty realms of rhetorical c oquencej just wipe that egg-yolk off your beard, will you ? and you oughtn't to eat eggs for breakfast this time of year, Tom — they're too expensive."
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 519, 5 July 1881, Page 2
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88Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 519, 5 July 1881, Page 2
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