Wanted Realism.
She could not see his face as he knelt and] asked her to be his.
She was glad of that, for she did not wishi to know how much suffering her refusal caused him.
Sh© told him as gently as she could that their lives could not be linked together; that, although she admired him and esteemed him, she felt it would be risking his future a» well as nor own to consent to a union when she was sure no affinity existed. It was a touching' speech, and ehe threw so much hoart into it that she. did not observe he was taking notes in shorthand. When she had concluded he arose and put his notebook in his pocket. Extending his hand, he remarked, genially :
"I'm ever and ever so much obliged to you." "S-i-r-r-r!" •- "You did it ever so nicely, and I'm undet* a thousand obligations. I'm writing a novely and I have a scene in which a girl refuses to marry a man. I was anxious to avoid! the stereotyped stylo of depicting 1 6Uch incidents and to make- it realistic. You're the seventh girl I hare proposed to, and every one of the others accepted me. If you had said 'Yea,' I think I'd have been completely discouraged."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2525, 6 August 1902, Page 72
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214Wanted Realism. Otago Witness, Issue 2525, 6 August 1902, Page 72
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