CHAPTER IV.
It has just occurred, I have made a, great confnsion. I forgot to say that I was one of the six girls, not one of the six boys. I may as well mention, too (because in a matter of this kind it is best to be accurate in all details), I was also the beauty. It was thought that I should 'bestow my hand upon the object of -my choice ' (the phrase is mamma's) at an earlier period than my sisters would bestow theirs, although I was the youngest but one. But somehow I did not.
Of course from one point of view (the merely pecuniary), my papa and mamma were anxious that we should 'go off 1 (the phrase is papa's) at as early a period as was consistent with the rules of strict propriety, and in the proper order of things ,. it was only fair that my sisters should have gone of
first ; but the unfortunate part of the business was that the young gentlemen who thought they had fallen in lova with my sisters, fell in love with me as soon as ever we met, and then as I didn't fall in love with them, and they wouldn't fall in love with my sisters for the second time, it made things very unpleasant and unsatisfactory, and kept my sisters from 'going off' as quickly as they might otherwise have done.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 224, 16 May 1872, Page 9
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235CHAPTER IV. Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 224, 16 May 1872, Page 9
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