REASSURED HIM.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 195, 17 August 1912, Page 6

REASSURED HIM.

He was shy—painfully shy. For eighteen rionths, when the shades of evening had fallen, he had trudged through the country lanes by her side, had discussed the weather and the crops, and had wished her pleasant dreams when they parted, but never a whisper of the one question she was so longing' to hear escaped his? lips. At last he screwed up his courage. "Em," he said, "I mayn't be handsome, I mayn't be clever, but you don't think I'm a bad sort of a feller, do yer?" "What dyer mean?" she asked. "You don't think I'm one o' these 'arum-scarum chaps, eh?" "Speaking plain, I don't, 'Enery," she murmured, "seem' as 'ow you've been buzzin' round me evefcy night for nigh on two years without so much as squeezin' my 'and, I certainly don't reckon you belong to the fast set!"