Popping the Question.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1870, 13 February 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

Popping the Question.

$..«..t Charity in a Woman Excuses Blindness in

the Man She Loves.

Nothing is more deplorable than an inter* val in a proposal of marriage. The matter should be gone through with speedily once your attack begins. It is an attack always. No matter how ready-hearted Angela may ba there ia a little perfuno&ory hesitancy, only natural to her modesty, and you must not give her the opportunity to turn the current or her wooing. Do noi stop to tell her that you only take three glasses of claret with your dinner, or that you don't o*e a cent in the world. Information of this sort you should convey to her long before you ask the momentous question ; it is revelant, no doubt, and may abet your effort greatly, but yet it is prosaio and cut of keeping just at tho moment of eiisis. The more nakedly you confine yourself to declaring your love and aßking her hand, the better. Bear in mind always that a proposal partakes of the nature of an onslaught ; that no matter how apt and willing your lady-love may be she has still a maidenly sseuse of preservation, and you must afford her no opportunity of avoidance, but bind her most strenuously to the issue Give her the slightest pretext for branding eff up a side issue of controversy and you will never pin her to the point.

At all times a woman's perception of deceit is keener than a man's, and it is peculiarly so when the matter under consideration concerns her affections. It is the charity, cos the biindnes3, of women, which makes them tolerant cf a want of oharity in men they love. You can not cozen Angela, and it is distinctly indiscreet to make the attempt. l)o cot try to make her believe that you are n better fellow than you are. If she gives you her heart it is not because you are the noblest of men. If we were loved for our desert a only we should all die lorn bachelors ; it is in spite of your defects that Ehe loves yon, and it would do you no good to trick her if you could. Tell her honestly that you are but an indifferent honest follow, not more then passably clever, not too welHurnished in worldly gear— oay this by way of preface, leaving her no opportunity lor other interruption than a formal protest at your self -depreciation — and then— iben at her, my merryman ; tell her how you love her, and have no fear of pitching your song too high on this pomt — sweat that you love the Etreet she lives upon, audit you do not jouare no true lov«.

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