A Modern Courtship.

Otago Witness, Volume 15, Issue 1562, 15 October 1881, Page 28

A Modern Courtship.

•And you really love me dearly!' he asked as he coiled his arm around her wasplike system. 'And you'll always love 'me 80?' ' ' Always Frederiok, ever so !' ' And you'll pledge me to sew, but—' • Sir 1' •You pledge me to so beautify my life that it wil always be as happy as now V ' '• With my last breath, F,rederlok.' •And darling you will mend my boo — ' > ' Your what, sir?' ' 'Yoa' will mend my social ways and draw me upward and onward {to a better existence.' j ' , < It will be the pride of my love so to do, ' Frederiok ; I will saorifioe all for your complete happiness.' •I know that, BweetneßS. Bnt suppose I some accident should happen to — to— say the trou— ' t . J •Yon forget yourself, sir. Tothewhati?' 'To the troaseaa ; would it defer the hoar which makes you mine ?' ' Never, Frederiok. lam yours, mind and heart, and naught can.separate us. '•But what I want to say 'is, that 'should my pant-^-' •Begone,' sir, what do, you mean V , ' Hear me, my life. I say if my panting bosom should grow cold in death, would your love still warm it?' As the sun melts the Iceberg, Frederiok, so would the rays of my affection thrill your heart again. • And yoa will oare for me ever, my soul, and I for you, for though I may never have a shir-

• Enough. Leave me, for ever.' 'But listen. Though I may never have a shirking disposition, I shall sometimes, perhaps, in the straggle of life, forget the plain duty—' ' And I'll remind yon of it, Frederiok, in tender actions, and make the duties of existence so pleasant of performance that to avoid them will be pain.'

And so on. That's modern courtship. Lots of abstract swash, but a manifest disinclination to contemplate Buoh conveniences as buttons, socks, trousers, and shirts.