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pear to be a matter Of publicity, however !;
the current, and, as we generally believed,
well founded report, WAS sufficient to draw
around her many admirers among
the number, a few serious courtiers.
|. She did not wait long before young
gentleman on whom she had looked with
a somewhat partial eye, because he was the
gayestand handsomest Of her lovers, en-
boldened by her partiality, made an offer.
Probably she blushed, and her heart flut-
tered little, but they were sitting in q
moonlight parlor, and as her embarrassment
was more than half concealed, she soon re-
covered, and as awaggish humor happened
to have the ascendancy, she put on a seri-
Gus face, and told him she was honored by
his preference, but that there was one mat
ter which sh ould be understood before Civ
ing him a reply" Perhaps you may think
me wealthy would not for the world
have you lab or under mistake on that
point-I am orth eighteen hundred dol
lars. /"


She was pro, ,eeding, but the gentleman
started as if elet tri6ed. !" Eeighteen hun-
dred dollars!" he repeated in manner
that betrayed the utmost surprise. Yes
ma'am,'' said he, awkwardly, 81 did un-
derstand you wer e worth a great deal more
--but--o 3a


"No, sir, j" she replied, no excuse or
apology think about what | have told you
you are embarrassed now answer me
another time," and, rising, she bade him
good night.


She Just escaped trap he went the
next day to her guardian to inquire more
particularly into her affairs, and receiving
the same answer, he dropped his suit at
| once.


The next serious proposal followed soon
after; and this, too, came from one who
succeeded ia large portion of her esteem,
but applying the same crucible to the love
he offered her, she found a like result. He,
too, left her, and she rejoiced in another
fortunate escape


She some tim., after became acquainted
with young gen. teman Of slender fortune
in whose approach es she thought she dis
covered more Of the timid difidence ofloye
| than she had witnes sed before. She die
not check his hopes. In the process O
time, he, too, made an offer, but when she
spoke Of her fortune, he begged her to be
silent. g 1t is to virtue, worth, and beaus
ty,'' said he, " that lpay my coI'rt-not to
fortune In you shall obtaia what is
worth more than gold. " She was most
agreeably disappointed. They were mar
ried and the union was solempzed, and she
made him master of her fortune with her
self. 81 am, indeed, worth eighteen hun
dred dollars, . said she to him, but hope
never to enjoy more pleasure than ! feel at
this moment, when tell you my fortune
is one hundred and eighty thousand. "