A Promised Response.
She wasn't feeling very well, and had been making him go two or three times to the chemist's. At last he got comfortably settled in front of the fire with a newspaper. ' George, dear. 1 'Well?' 'We have been very happy together, haven't we? 'Yes.' ' I've always been a true and loving wife to you, haven't I ?' 'Uh-huh.' ' George.' 'Well?' 'If I should— if I should not be spared to you, you will not marry again ?' 'Not if I know it !' replied George, with such alacrity and emphasis that sho rose from the sofa and went to her room.
'So you wish to leave to get married, Mary P I hope you have given the matter serious consideration P ' • Oh, I have, sir, ' was tho earnest reply. • I've been to two fortune-tellers and a olajrvoyant, and looked in a sign-book, and dreamed on a look of his hair, and been to one of those a«terologers, and to a meejum, and they all toll me to go ahead, »ir. I ain't one to marry reckless like, sir.'
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Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 152, 24 December 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)
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179A Promised Response. Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 152, 24 December 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)
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