THE PANGS OF DESPISED LOVE.
She was young and beautiful, and she earned '.Tier livelihood by executing the more delicate ■ needlework at a certain ? saddler's shop. But the boss-of the establishmeiiib had been smitten with; - Cupid's dart, as he watched her bending over the sewing-machine, and rapidly producing that ornamental work which delighteth the eyes of customers and maketh the fiery and untamed steed a'thing of beauty and a joy for ever. But, alas ! her heart had been given to another, a cunning •workgV in tin, and the boss saddler, sued and. sighed in vain. And so, as Spenser wrote :: — " True be it said, whatever man* it said, That love with gall and, honey doth abound ; But if the one be with the otbJer weighed, For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of gall doth over it; redound." The boss saddler had more gall than honey in his love. Finding the girl proof against his blandishments, he displayed his mean and contemptible spirit by, discharging her from the employment of the firnv "Wih.Q, however, on being informed of the facts, promptly, reinstated her. , ; ■ .''.' •-, : -♦ T-rr 1
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 167, 24 November 1883, Page 3
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187THE PANGS OF DESPISED LOVE. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 167, 24 November 1883, Page 3
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