A CONDENSED LOVE STORY.
Clutha Leader, Rōrahi XXII, Putanga 1102, 27 Mahuru 1895, Page 7
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A CONDENSED LOVE STORY.
* Matilda,' said George, ' I love you dearer than life, but fate decrees that we must part.' Matilda swooned. Smelling salts and vinegar to the rescue.
' You see, my dear,' continued George, ' owing to my weakly constitution, your brute of a father objects to our marriage.'
' George,' said Matilda, whose face was bathed in tears, 'if you love me, dearest, be guided by me, and all will be well. Father's objection may seem an insuperable obstacle, but leave it to me.'
' I will,' said the despondent George.
'Well, now you know it all,' continued Matilda, * kiss me, dearest, and go. This day six months you'll return.' George went. That day 3ix months he returned. * What ! George !' said the father, in surprise. ' Why I wouldn't have known you.' Within a month George and Matilda were married. Twenty years have passed since then. There are eight little Matildas, five little Georgies, and old George is enlarging the house in prospect.
George is a loving husband and a kindly father. Matilda is the best- of wives and a devoted mother. At eventide she gathers her family around her and tells them the story of her youth ; and always concludes by giving the same advice that she had given George at that critical hour : to use Warner's Safe Oure.'
