Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1901 — A Woman a Way. [ARTICLE]

A Woman a Way.

In the conservatory nook, With lovely Constance tete-a-tete, I told her, as her hand I took, I loved her—left to her my fate. She scarcely seemed to hear {I own Emotion made avowal faint),. . When, as if consciousness had grown, She said in answer to my plaint: “Tell me again you love me true, Above all others think me fair; Have never loved another; do Not hesitate to even swear’” I made oath in crescendo tone She was the one beyond compare— She truly was my only own, My benediction after prayer. A shock was her reply—sharp string; "After you first spoke, I espied Nell, hiding near us horrid thing— I hope that now she’s satisfied 1” —C. S. Pearson*.