INTERRUPTION OF LOVE’S YOUNG DREAM.
They sat upon an inverted wash-tub (directly under a window) dreaming wild dreams of love. With her great starry eyes turned up to him she softly whispered, ‘ Will you always, always love me, Warren?’ and Warren murmured back—- ‘ Till the sun grow* cold, Till the stars are old, And— ’ Then he sprang to his feet in a wild panic and made frenzied efforts to get his face through a coating of something that seemed to have fallen from the clouds. Cleaning his eyes, he shot the quick glance of hatred up to the window, made a bolt for the back gate, and dieappea’ed from thejstartled girl’s side. Old gentleman up-stairs, murmering to h ; a wife, remarks, ‘ There, Malindy, I bet 500 dollars I’ve knocked that blamed bowl of hot starch out of the winder, and upset the whole on’t. The desolate maiden has no lover now, but goes around with *Q unquiet glare in her downcast eyes.
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Globe, Volume V, Issue 572, 19 April 1876, Page 2
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