Resolution.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 268, 17 November 1874, Page 7

Resolution.

A humorous writer in the Greymouth Star relates the following as illustrative of the difficulty of keeping high resolves. He says : —" I was cogitating deeply on this question the other evening, reclining meanwhile between the stacks of timber that grace the wharf, when my reverie was interrupted by voices. The conversation emanated from a pair of lovers ,about to part. The lady was going on a sea voyage. The young man exclaimed with pathos, ' And so you are going to leave medn the morning, dearest; and I may neverisee your sweet face again.' To which she ■ You will forget me ; some other image wilhouickly replace mine upon your heart.' 'Never,' exclaimed the enraptured swain, 'l«t me prove my devotion ; what can [ do to show you how I love you?' 'You cannot,do anything,' rejoined the maiden, ' except you get up in the morning to say good-bye, and bring a nosegay a3 a memento, of aajodtay in Greymouth,' Then the couple passed:but \ of hearing, and I thought I wottld seethe finish «| this gushing episode. The ;I ne:^ r mpmmg I rose early and took up. my usual station* About a quarter past ten that youth arrived on the wharf, and looking sorrowfully at the place where the steamer had been ljerthed the previous evening he exclaimed, <I could have done a great deal for that dear!departed, but getting up at live o'clock.in |the morning was hardly good enough,' ; and with a tear trickling down the side ■[ of jis nose, the young man left." .... . Q ' J hj