BRINGING HIM TO THE POINT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1055, 22 April 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

BRINGING HIM TO THE POINT.

" Will you do something to oblige me?" shyly asked a beautiful young womanof.i titnidgeiijrteiflanj whoso-acquaintance slib hadjnst madd 'atasinallsocial ! gatheriug the other evening. :, , i;; '.'Any tiling, that I canin. re- ~ 'plied.'blusliing. : •. ;:" Well," said she" corao into the tack parlor, . .where it is dark, and sit on the sofa with mo, 'aud'' lot'me rest ray.hoad on your shoulder, and you protind to whisper in my ear-only don't blow, because that ticklos, and'l can't laujh, (or this' newdressis very tight—and when anybody looks 'you can draw your'arm away—l forgot to'say ■ that I wanted you to put it round my waist—and I'll protend to blush." ■ ■ . ":But,mygracious,lionpredmiss!"stammered , ;the voung man,, after hastily dividing four, into. 11882 and finding it wasn't leapyear-fyygpotl: rioa/befc-re all. these people—nnd lam already engaged—and your father must welali—". 1 " Hiish I I know what Fni up to " replied tho artless girl. '" lam engaged, too, to that young : Iniao talkimr to the waxen-facod thing with some{body e'lso's hair ovorthoro,' I want"to stir him up—to bring him down'to business—make him come up to tho mark, that's all." : Tho young man said that a load had boonliftou Ifrom his bosom, and aided her to the host of his [ability—so woll, indeed, that in three-rjuartera . [of an hour tho true botrothodgot his girl into tho library, domahded an explanation of hor shameless conduct, was softened by her tears, 'called; .himself a brute, asked if she could over forgivo him, nnd promised to behave'bettcrin future. I And how did the young girl reward the young jman who had helped her to this happiness? '"■'■< i Why, sho nevor said,a word to him• allitho. 'evening—in fact never mentioned him oxcept; to say toner reconciled lover; j «' Alonzo, could you kavo beon so stupid as to, ithink I could seo anything to admire in such (in all but imbecile as that V" ! :ok, woman, in our hours of easb I