A LOVER’S REVENGE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 909, 15 January 1881, Page 2

A LOVER’S REVENGE.

An awful case of the consequences of refusing a young man’s honorable love is reported on the West side. A really nice young man fell in lovo r. :rh a handsome young giii, the only daughter of a handsome and well preserved widow of 38, and offered her marriage. She ridiculed him because he was 25, and said he was old enough to be her father, and so on, and with her taunts goaded him to such a pitch of frenzy that he swore he would be fearfully revenged. Accordingly he proposed to and married the wretched girl’s mother. Now that wretched girl has to wear stout leather boots two sizes too large for her, and go to bed at 9 p.m., and eschew the theatre, chocolate crammels, ice cream, and, in fact, everything else that makes life worth living for, her stepfather’s nominal object being that when she grows up she may be as splendidly matured a woman as her mother, the compliment implied in this inducing the mother to second enthusiastically ; and when a young man comes round to see that wretchard girl her stepfather bounces him down the steps, and throws his hat after him, and tells the wretched girl that the young man is not fit company for her, and that he is as solicitous for her future as he would be for his own child, and altogether, in the kindest manner possible, he makes that wretched girl even wish that she were dead as many as a hundred times a day. Let all other | beautiful girls who are oven tempted to refuse the matrimonial offers of the eligible young men be warned by her unhappy fate.