A QUALIFIED PROPOSAL.
Arabella’s eyes wandered wistfully Hong the shore to the rocky promontory where the great lighthouse stood. “How beautiful it is!” she said to Jim Lackpenny, who sat beside her. “Do you know, Jim. before I die I believe I’d like to keep a lighthouse somewhere. It must be a weird, wild life.” “Arabella,” he responded, “it is a weird, wild life, but if it had ever occurred to me that that sort of thing was at all in your line I should long ago have begged you to become my wife and go to light housekeeping with me.” Silence and the lap of the waves.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue IX, 28 February 1903, Page 624
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108A QUALIFIED PROPOSAL. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue IX, 28 February 1903, Page 624
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