Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1877 — Why Mr. Difflinger Nevèr Married That Young Lady on North Hill. [ARTICLE]
Why Mr. Difflinger Nevèr Married That Young Lady on North Hill.
Everybody was j «fct eartam.it jvtould be a match. Tliby were just fitted, for each other; she vtatf'beatiufol' ahd 1 accomplished, and ) young iM». DU&ingerwaS good-looking, rather well-to-do, ahd#W7i agreeable/ It’was easily to he seen that he was dead iaildve wiih that yotmg lsdy wasn’t averse ta Wfjbastiful a*» tentions, and, if it hadn’t been for one or. tWo little WcMeWtS', W *#6»*lfove been a ! mt}tph, ißW7tetdfc( Wdat«d ;and p^#i ßto^r^ifi,t I w4i!oS would call ran < aeU-possEteixl' ietiah. graceful' carriage «nd gestntas,* when nobody was looking,, at jbuu. r Ufe had a very studied*, reguiaf walk, and; the ladies all said that;htebew was '►per fectly divine.” Buthpwewer graceful he might be on the strept, ufl‘Tiis natural elegdhce of manner vfeteeateir >hito when 'be was in> each other and his feet lying along tbei carpet in parallel lines. ,He Jaid. onphaad on each knee,* or else held himseli In the chair with them, and from nine to time he would rouse up, and appearing to realize the stiffness of hiß constrained postdre, wonld suddenly clasp his hands together and shake hands with himself, apparently
anawrcTety HewSs ftWalfllni Hi agony lest his scalp-lock. vOfiMiUMdlUytoaiight srficffigsrliHtta down to a degree **(j'j»>Ubh ifliaVAould make a piano-case look, rough, and #otilff ''eg* batch itself in skowropffl.c 4f14 his • nails were dingy, aoir would My to f atAnd ode nlfcH*h4 •tofildMi tkM»lady’s dtfsMP'padrfawf andetohoaoitbatiikad ever Tke* 4<iwn bf afii«Mgfintiki%r-ctofiilail worked wi&t&mi&njtt feet under the chair, painfully*ctaicious e riiiaafi^/rin! fc«.. Aad Ai Irto agOny Of mcHMane of the shoes off, and when he fCane .away, not daring to stoop and pick left it WjAhmsfn A ,g ?^mor^n!jg^ a^d into convulsions of terrof;4rt&ur ro dash out bis brains by butting ins Bead against ■tlie iatb B&dfptoflyxmfittoaiefiiiis room. MW vmkmkkss: note from the young ted|ll nafihbiuatating that,he probablv overlooked it on account 'df m SmdfhieAs (ttinfl add ifll»HtAvas about the Am at flWi.ttob«m|t Sabbath, when he caughr the, ypung lady’s eye in chureh. 'ftUetureddMiiMflMifl dived tolJpE^Jmr aaw hepphake the pew with uncdtiftfelldbie emotion. He at fina thkl slidVmigfil lw>weeping, but a oltoWflkvegUfiaUfln revealed his error, and he afterwardlearttwl'frem some young.ladies with whom ) ’bad held iconverse, that the morning alter his de-‘pm-tdre froud’ ttfiT pfec*;‘lt'ltW>ted as though been wrecked, under . the easy chair in wh!cli‘ll^4teti»«- , ••• lure !*T
; l It WW* hMMj. t, young Mr. Di,ffliuger went out into com-•-'Bht'MS'Mtortt fisopto * (markshodla shut 4iitosulf iaevlik^nnaecluse, prnatnhmtoto ttattatz. to amis sa by watching himself with groat care, made ’a Bftftiagt MMcss-Mlitlirougi evening. «rtiwnsi SShP 7 and easy as a roller skater. He said bright, pila® VtiM ofl-hand manner, a And.whin ha tptWJCkgn. everyGttafa3lSVßM£k£ lifrnr. Hfe uttdaWtdtattawnnHnrrunt as a penchant and backed away more rapidlyotoßn ever, I fdta' kehinta' hind staid) <fNgMt¥k* knob, fHtmaAMaMgs? of elegance, bowed himself jptMPta region of outqr darkness and shut himself in. '“’lt Sf as akS*#Mi#MlVThe hall to hlto in the , ifio*t' f sh)MMMvtnanner, somebody had into t*be liall, , Mr. Difflinfetr could hear 'toe muffled murmur el ivetatoflb the other the him, onpe or twice, that there was Some vio-.lently-sttpprSroo* ltegMer mi somewhere in the counted MajtojidL like to go back to the parlor and ask lor a light, So hq groped; OK, jwWkitataftl'Misgivings, ll Ctoßb diq-k rbqll, kruggfiag.wjto jthe old SsrsMk WfeSr'S torusjtoiri total dismantled shoes, ana fell forward, jamming one 3£3&sS£n 'RScnMHnu.'Sf ' and '.some didn’t $ the mufflw4.)ftn9Mfirfi'idftaßatlaitarash of his fall,-mad tha dreadful truth dawned He Ma32«w£w£3 wardrobewac.HeuidMlllli /kWWv at A«t whether to cui his throat and die rignt in there, or go out and murder Architect q'fio, p}annod^to| his way Lack, to the door, fie emerged into the II ight‘aKmXtbrisobi4»iiWrShstai’ laughmW^lia as fw down over His burning face as he parlor ststaeaounnai csn«H»y ,OT»uned and ÜBtSmmSil djrxz 3SSSSS-J
