No Wonder He Made a Resolution.
Darliug," lie said, looking down tenderly into the eye 3 ©f,hi3 bride, " f have often heard j-ou say that there is no true love without self-sacrifice. You have taught me this great truth, and now lam going. to prove my love by giving up something that has been vory duar to mo' for- years. STou know how fond lam of smoking. Well, dearest, I am going to abandon the practice, even though it be - like tearing out my — my " At this point his emotion apparently overcame him, and he looked down at the sweet face, expecting to see there appreciation of his noble resolve, but he saw only a look of blank disappointment. What is tho matter? Are you not glad that I am following your teaching? lie ask.cd. "It's not that," she answered, almost sobbing. " Never mind what it is," and she [ rushed from the room. The self-sacrificing hero smiled. Ho ha<l learned from his wife's dearest friend that she had set her heart on buying him haif-a-dozen boxes of cigars covered with lovely silver naner wrappers, with pictures in the middle. And that is what gave birth to his noblo resolution. *
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Otago Witness, Issue 2387, 30 November 1899, Page 67
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