Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1890 — He Had Been Wasting Valuable Time. [ARTICLE]

He Had Been Wasting Valuable Time.

“I hope, Mary,” he said, gently, “the suddenness and intensity of my love will not. come upon you like a shock, Possibly,” he continued, still more gently, and taking her hand with respectful tenderness, “you aie not prepared for this avowal. The language of passion may be new to you. Am I the first man, my dear, timid little girl, to address you in this way?” “No, Horace,” she replied, “I have never spoken of my past life, because there are portions of it full of pain and sadness. But I was beloved once by as good a man as the sun ever shone upon. < He is dead now, but during the short year of our married life ” “You are a widow, then, Mary?” “Yes, Horace. I—why, Horace, dear!” For the young man had strained her to his heart with a force that took her breath away. Ho had been wasting valuable time.