SENSATION AND LOVE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 421, 20 November 1889, Page 4

SENSATION AND LOVE.

The latest Parisian sensation .- foc,-,tjje summer time, according to our mail/news; is the case of the •' lovely widow and the lucky engineer." The 'son,, ot science is only a humblo worker in' the lower walks iof his profesdion, and as he w.as sauntering along the bunks of the Seine,' near ' Neuilly, the other day, lazily and listlessly, he , espied a tall, graceful, ' and charming lady, attired in widow's weeds, walking quickly-down to the w&ter'a edge. ' After having looked abouo for ; a moment the lady suddenly jumped into the river, and was soon floating helplessly 'away" on the current. The eugineer took offhis coat and boots, and was in the water in a twinkling of an eye. Striking boldly out for the lady he reached her before she sank the third time, and skilfully conveyed his almost lifeless burden towards an adjacent boat' which had bee,n put out from shore by two bargees. The lady and her rescuer were taken ititp the craft, and restoratives having been applied, the lovely one, all in black arrayed, opened- her eyes and asked to, be carried home. Her wishes were complied promptly, and her gallant rescuer accompanied her to a semi-baronial villa not far from the river side. Next day the engineer called to see the lady, who thanked him most warmly, and asked him to come again. He did as he was requested, keeping up his visits for nearly a week, at ! the end of which timo he succeeded in winning the hand and heart of the lady Whom he had saved from drowning. -As she happens to be the possessor of a handsome jointure, as well as of houses, lands, and chariots, all is about to go as merry as a marriage bell, and the Wedding March will be played in a suburban church at no distant date. It is neodless to add for the benefit of tho«e curiou« in such matters that the fair widow had been eaten up with ennui, and that life became so utt« rly unfit to live for, in her estimation, that she resolved to end it by a cold bath in the Seine. Luckily, the young and intrepid engineer appeared at the proper moment, saved the lady, and will now be able to teach her that Schopenhauer, Leopardi, and all their crew of petty pessimists are absurd reasoners, and that «' Life is worth living," after all.