GETTING HER FATHER'S CONSENT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3906, 26 January 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

GETTING HER FATHER'S CONSENT.

. ' I tell you, sir,' indignantly exclaimed Colonel Webley, addressing a, young man who aspired'lo tho hand of hia- only child, 'that I shall never give my consent to a union which 1 know would be unhappy. •Wo love each other, , replied, young Bulchuff. .: . ' Love be eternally, blowcd ! So I could have snid years ago; I was devoted to tho woman I married and she was devoted to mo.' , : ' ' You have lived happily with each other, have you not? , .: . - , Happily!' llie Colonel contemptuously

repeated. ' I didn't have money enough to insure happiness. Even in Arkansaw a man must have monoy. His wife maybe devoted to him, but if he fails to provide those little delicacies which makes life so enjoyable to a woman sho will speak of this sad lack of comfort, £md, instead of attributing it to financial inability, will regard it as wilful neglect. At times she will bo melting with affection, and vow that your love is all that she cares for in tins world ; but when some one who, in worldly goods, seems no richer than yourself rides in n, buggy with his wife, she loses sight of the great sustaining love and hankers after tangible affection —a streot display of lore.' '1 am a young man of energy and good business capacity. I can work and earn money.'

'No use in prolonging this conversation. I have told you that you shall not marry mj daughter. I shall keep a close watch, and if 1 sco you here agaiu I shall act with violence.

' Well, Colonel, , said the young man with firmness, 'as tbo gentler resources have failed, I am compelled to adopt the last resort. Somo timo ago, before you suspected that I was attached to your daughter, you borrowed ten dollars from me. Do not wince, sir ; hear me through. You thought that 1 had'forgottcn tho transaction, but I haven't. Now, sir, 1 intend to marry your daughter. If you persist in annoying me, 1 shall dun you for tho money every time I see you.' The Colonel sat for a moment in deep thought. Finally lie said : ' Say, .Bob, don't say anything about the ten dollars ; lend mo fire dollars and take the girl.