Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1875 — An Odd Way of Popping the Question. [ARTICLE]

An Odd Way of Popping the Question.

A recent novel contains a mode of “popping the question,” singular in its way. Miss peorge answers a tap at the front door, and her lover, Mr. Fleetwood, prove to be the visitor. “ Miss George, I’ve come on an errand that makes me nervous. I’ve walked up to your door three times to-night before 1 dared to knock, and now I’ve got in I’ve hardly courage to say what I want to say. The fact is, when a man has got a favor to ask he doesn’t know well how to begin, especially if he’s a man of few words.” Here Mr. Fleetwood stopped, and an awkward pause ensued. “ I’m sure if there’s any favor we cando for you we shall only be too glad to —to oblige so kind a friend,” I began. “ I can never feel grateful enough for all ” “ Stop, or you’ll be saying more than you may wish. There is something you can do —something that will repay me a thousand times over and make me .the happiest man alive. Yorn’ll think me very abrupt, lam afraid, but! want to know if you’ll marry me ? I’ll make you a good and faithful husband, by God’s help, if you’ll have me, Dorothy. There, I’ve done it now, and a pretty mess I’ve made of it!” For I had sat-down- and covered my face with my hands, and I’m afraid I was beginning to. sob. It had come upon me so suddenly. “I oughtn’t to have blurted it out like that,” said Mr. Fleetwood, in an uneasy voice. “ I hope you’re not offended with me?” I was still silent, but it was from emotion, not ranger or indifference. “If you wish me to go, sit as you sit now, with your face turned from me; but if you only find it hard to say the word I want to hear, just lift up the bit of seaweed there on the table by your side, and I’ll know what you mean, Dorothy.” The words were uttered in a voice full of feeling. I looked up into the manly, modest face bending, over me, and—really I can’t say whether I lifted up the seaweed or not. A MAN in Amsterdam, N. Y., recently applied his lips to another man’s wife, and immediately generated a motor that kicked him about 100 feet from the front steps and chased him all over the lower part of the town with a club. It beats Keely all hollow. - « The railroad companies are getting to be diabolically shrewd. Recently, in Vermont, an engineer not only ran over a horse but tore the animal to pieces with the cow-catcher so that the owner couldn’t identify the animal. The Washington wife who kicked her husband to death must be a boot-iful creature.

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