Breach of Promise.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4251, 16 August 1882, Page 2

Breach of Promise.

The Pious Man and the Chaeming Saleswoman.

[By Telegraph.] Wellington, Yesterday. The coming breach of promise case, in which Miss Sweeney is the plaintiff, and Mr Seybourne the defendant, and which is to be tried at the next sessions of the Supreme Court in October, will bo one of unusual interest The pkiutiff, a fair, petite, and gushing young lady of some 23 summers, has been earning her living, since the death of her parents, aa sales- [ woman in a fancy shop, where her quick intelligence and lively manner made her a general favorite. For some three years sbe was employed atMrHolloway'sshop, Lambton Quay, the proprietor of which es* lablishment describes her as a good saleswoman. It was while thus engaged that the defendant/a somewhat consumptivelooking man of the Wesleyan persuasion, employed in the Audit Department of the Government, made her acquaintance, which, after a very short period, ripened into such mutual affection that an engagement was the result. The young lady appears to have sent her intended her photo,

as young ladies so often do—aa affectionate compliment, however, which, perhaps, economical considerations forbade him to return. Shortly after this—that is, in the beginning of the present year—possibly ■.. excited by the thought of her contemplated union with the object of her affections, the young lady appears to have given some' V offence to the proprietor of the establish - "' ment where she was employed, and a three years' engagement—abusinessengagement on this occasion, not a love affair—was at anend. Such talents, however, as the young lady possessed were not to remain in the market long without sn-offer, and soon we find her engaged at a fancy store in Cuba street, run by Mr Hamilton, who ultimately gave her an engagement in a similar establishment of his at Palmerston Worth, It was in this spot that the first breach between the hitherto loving couple is said to have occurred.^ For three long weeks her sweetheart was anxiously expecting one of those tender epistles which lovers are so fond of inditing to one another, but he seems to have waited in vain. No sucn sentimental effusion was Coffered, and the lover was at his wits' end. How the work of daily roiHine proceeded in that little room up in ..the Audit Department at the Government Buildings may be imagined. At times the infatuated young man was seefn to stick his* .pcn 1 into his desk .pjid clutch, convulsively; at the roots of b/s" hair. At other times he appeared .quite listless or morose. . ; At last he could stand it no longer, and he determined if he could not get a letter from the young lady, the young lady should get one from him, whereupon he became.calm, ami: his fatee assumed a placid smile as he polled out on paper the story of his wrongs.^^fter filling up about 15 sheets in thisvjjafcjaßerjthe heart-broken lover conclude{!i-sfcS> use his own characteristic pbrase-«dJf "/discharging " her at once and forejrafc- No sooner was this dreadful epistlefcead, and its contents duly noted, than,"'after recovering from the swoon with which she was probably seized on the occasion, the young lady is said to have indited a tender reply,, and by all the loving "terms which yontfg;. ladies know soWll how to employ, cajoled^-; him into returning to his former allegiances;. ;' Weeks passed away. Letters were daily,-V or if not daily, very frequently exchanged, abounding in most endearing terms, expressed with all the passionate warmth of which only lovers who have entered the inner circle can ever aspire to attain the command; his, at any rate, being largely interwoven with pious ejaculations, and with glances at that future time when they should boiJb kneel on the same stool as man and wifw The happy pair now appeared <#^ on the best of terms, when sudderij£.£oi».e -tkjnd friend informed the absent loror ,|hat his sweetheart had been flirting wrtUa priest. Hideous thought!—it was "too much for his peace of mind, and in another letter, which he accuses her of having since destroyed, he once more, to use his own very eloquent phraselogy, " gave her the sack." However, so far as we can understand, the plaintiff denies having received such a letter, and affirms, on the contrary, that it, was on the express invitation of the defendant that she left her situation at Balmerston North, and came to Wellington. be the reason what it may, the .young lady appears to have returned io Wellington, and paid a visit to the house of her affianced, in Nairn street, and to have apparently given him a bit of her mind. The flirtation with the priest, whatever truth there was in it, is alleged to have, been ultimately condoned, and the loving couple again formed themselves into a mutual admiration society. The old lore, however, seemed to have cooled down considerably, with the result, to quote again his highly-expressive if not figurative language, that he " gave her the final sack, for her continual insolence and refusal to work;" the young lady, according to his own views of the affair, agreeing to consider the engagement at an end. Miss Sweeney has, of course, a slightly different tale to tell, and as a satisfaction for her injured feelings she claims the sum of £200."