Wooing and Winning.
A pretty story is told of Moses j Mendelssohn, the founder of the family whose name has no sound of music m it. He was a hunchback, j and a young Hamburg maiden re- ; jected him because he was misshapen: He went to bid her goodbye, and, while he was making a, last supreme effort at persuasion, she did not lift her eyes from her sewing, "Do you really think marriages are maid m heaven ? " Yes, indeed, 1 ' he replied, " and something wonderful happened to imes .At the birth of a child pro,-, elamation is made m heaven that lie or she shall marry such, and such a jone. When I was born, my future i wjfe was also named, but at the 'same time it was said: 'Alas, she i will have' a dreadful : hump 1 on her ? [back!'" "Oh, heaven," I said 'then, "the deformed girl will be- ! come embittered and" unhappy, : whereas she should-' be beautiful. (De^r 3Uprd,,gJYe me the hump and; |l«Hml' : iriaicietf : be well-favored andi j agreeable!"" .The girl could not I resist suclf wooing as that, and threw ; her. arms around his, neck. .. ,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 145, 29 November 1884, Page 4
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