FREE, ENLIGHTENED WOMAN!
‘Will you,’ he asked, in trembling, hopeful tones, ‘be mine ?’
‘ Hardly,’ she responded, in a rich bass voice. ‘ You have given me hope that you would,’ be pleaded. ‘ How ’’ ‘ By almost promising that you would not reject me.’ ‘ That is another thing,’ she said, in a softer tone. It gave him great hope. ‘ Ah, then, you will be my wife ’’ he exclaimed, with a brighter light in his- face. ‘ Hardly that, I think,’ she told him with the chill again in her voice. That made him almost desperate. ‘ Why do you treat me so ?’ he implored. ‘ What would you have me do’’ She drew herself up proudly, almost defiantly. ‘Do ?’ she exclaimed. ‘Do ? Ask me if you may be my husband.’ And he loved her so that he obeyed her, and he obeyed her ever after.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue VIII, 25 August 1894, Page 192
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139FREE, ENLIGHTENED WOMAN! New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue VIII, 25 August 1894, Page 192
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