ROUGH INTRODUCTIONS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue XXIII, 2 December 1899, Page 1017

ROUGH INTRODUCTIONS.

Strange incidents sometimes pave the way to marriage. A pretty woman was riding in a public omnibus when she. suddenly called out that she. had been robbed of her purse, and accused a. middle-aged man, who was sitting next her, of the theft, nor. despite his vehement protestations of innocence, was she content until a constable had been summoned. This was done, but on the arrival of the party at the police station, the lady to her horror remembered that she had left, her purse at home. Eagerly' she offered to make any reparation in her power to the man she had accused, who, in response, presented his card, requesting that he might have the honour of calling upon her. This was granted. He proved to be a man of good standing, morally and materially. and six months later the lady was his wife. Two cyclists, a. man and a woman, came into collision. The man was knocked down, but the lady’ was hurled from her machine, receiving severe injuries, whereof the memento, in the shape of an ugly scar, she will bear to her grave. The gentleman, who was not much hurt, rendered all the assistance in his power, and afterwards called daily at the lady's house to make inquiries as to her progress. These frequent visits resulted in a friendship that culminated in marriage. In trying a case a lawyer had io submit a lady to a searching crossexamination. The following day he received a call from his victim, who complained bitterly of the indignities she had suffered at his hands. Shamefacedly, he pleaded the exigencies of duty, and then, his feelings as a man overcoming his subtleties as a lawyer, made an ample apology, which the lady accepted so graciously as ultimately to lure him on to those more tender advances that lead to matrimony.