A LOVELY BURDEN.
Our lady readers will be shocked to learn, there lives a man with a soul so dead as to glory in having extracted from a hundred and forty-three engaged lovers how their sweethearts behaved when put to the momentous question. A hundred and forty stoutly maintained^.that; the hundred and forty single, ladies involved had not said a single word, each and all significantly remarking, "Actions speak louder than words." Two of the remaining gentlemen asseverated that when they proposed, the bewitching maidens respectively murmured .—
"Oh John! you don't mean it! This is too much : too much! I never thought you loyed me ! It's yes, yes; I've loved,you, oh, solong, and now to be so happy, so blest!" These young men.both confessed they would rather the young ladies had not been so talkative about the matter just at that time. The last of the 143 happy lovers said, he had not gone through more than a quarter of a very carefully prepared proposition before the girl—a blonde, weighing ■somel7olbs.—aroße, threw herself heavily on iis lap, vigorously wound her arms round his neck, and cried—
"You bet, I'll have you, Henry:! I've been waiting to hear you say; that for six months/ Why didn't you say it long ago you stupid-old man? There! (A kiss.) You're mine! (Another kiss.) All mine! (TwdKisges.) And nobody else will get you.! (Accompaniment ad libitum. J And see here; if ever you go back upon me, and wont marry me, I'll make it unhealthy for yriuV you bet! I'm none of your hoit, spring chicken-hearted girls." His confession ended, the engaged one inquire&«:»7:'v:/ ;:■.■ ... p;:;,:.U "Dontyou think for the occasion, she was rather boisterous?" and was^answered-^.- • • "'"■'■■ : :'.■! '■ ■■ ■ i;.-) r-!
" Rather so; but for your own sake, don't go back on her 1 ''^Eichanjge^o'
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3133, 4 March 1879, Page 4
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298A LOVELY BURDEN. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3133, 4 March 1879, Page 4
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