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Show K New York. April 23. Kir. Prentice It will give me Sure to have yon call- Cer-mcmber Cer-mcmber meeting you at Narra-olycars Narra-olycars ago, and It will be ever renew tho acquaintance. I nm Homo Sunday afternoons. Sin-rs, Sin-rs, ffFLORENCE PENDLETON. 11 April 21. fii-A Mr. Prentice Edwin IT. irtfbm 1 met at the Pier two jlh'as written asking permission tJA don't remember him from IP have answered granting him Sand now look out for fun! aloft season, and I'm rather leWhera. Poor Mr. Edwin II. fflo won't know what struck tal 1,,L0-Mt 1,,L0-Mt III. S.. April 30. Erenllce-U was so good of ienr Mr Prentice, to send the es", How did you know they ivorltes? Even as I write they ng in a bowl at my side, and ftnee fills the room, making me Ugh I were In one of old Omar's ins Instead of a prosaic New I intent. Do ou remember the )c Rubalat. "Look to the about us?" Strange, Is It :ers and poetry seem to sug-Lher'' sug-Lher'' All this time, and I I "Thank you " But I say It imea. and assure you of my "Won't ou dine with us evening, qulto Informally? give us so much pleasure, cordially, LORENCE PENDLETON. 1N ' May 1. -Mr Edwin H. Prentice Is no beautifully A big box of autles last Saturday and to en famllle Wednesday. lie tnlhcr good looking and parts felightfullv. lie Is In the bank- i iJTHnve you any Idea how their nl 1 wore my pink aecordeon tpe do chine, and he said pink vorlte color What do you bet uid him? He admires me for iV, bent Promise never to tell , ijEhc Purple Heifer" is my fa-' fa-' S Yours In haste, FLO. 1 May I. Prentice Are you sure 11 qulto proper, without a chap-Tcourse. chap-Tcourse. I should be delighted, ifassure me that It will be en- J"rno 11 faut, why At all all be ready at eight. The book .'as gratefully received. 1 shall ffas you suggest. Shall 1 say rours, FLORENCE P.? Kg May 11. I in famouslv, Nell' He asked me rjhial week, and as mother was lad to go unchaperoned wasn't ffiut such fun! He brought a lolels and the seats were In the Lfrow I wore my white cloth a. big white hat. He certainly ipreciatlon for clothes. 1 like at his nose; that's rather too is'. a hump half way down. But trt lils hair beautifully! He lelley last week Such a grind ade through It! (getting qulto exciting. He Is 'certainly. Expectantly. c ' FLO. r vn. May 13. quite sure It would be th Edwin Instead of Mr. Prn-Uon Prn-Uon t know how shy I feel s I told you. it Is my favorite lomehow my tongue seems to land coming home the other i hansom I simply could not word. Hut when you come nu Bee I shall greet you with if the usual formal way It tto repeat how much I en-ay en-ay and the evening I am sure 8 lacking In expressions of np-Nas np-Nas 1? Shyly, FLORENCE. VIII. Mav 1G. :ome shy. Nell He has asked ttlm Edwin, and he was- all In when he asked it. I looked -we wcrt driving up Madison r the play and said falter- would try. and nil the time be calling him Ned Insldo of a 0 poor men they consider h'SO bold and enterprising - 01 a patch on us girls, are was afraid to say Florence. Juld sc-( ho wns dying to ami t earthly objection. Poor old nid gladlv span- him. but It s w and I'm deod tired of the I oni knew how bank sahir-m sahir-m twenty-four, and a "mistake :e or the game would bu fatal lat I m going to do with him. ec ded yet -shall have to load . lk' nnher before I niakr lJr MvSr f'ar- Iboush. thut P you Informed. Always. t ix. FL0 i. -,. May 10. L iou cannot Imagine how unexpected It Is to be calling jut since It Is vour wlnh It is jy pleasure. vrhy yM. j lllln,. i,J0,1.v "Ico name- a"'! 1 L.i.. ,ard Lo say. exactly. 1 fiV.'I yet aboul l,le bracolel. in rHntTr n0C(,Pted anything wends pmt books, llow-ttiT' llow-ttiT' iard 1 dii-t know Shall i,? Ill" '-'Ul Is it dlf-fou dlf-fou maylay CO,U,,dCr' Yw I X FLORENCE. IP . 21. thaecna,n,ls t0'lve me a Rnd n,?nP,,h,r? nU dlamond-t.fo? dlamond-t.fo? w111" 3l,sL bib fni. vc' as ymi know, a I the & a rac?,. r- must p me ring. Peop c are hecin It 'is6 voJ'S Und' Su i . i BCU but you hate 111 t iA' le nfess you're no HWHrcnt yet ioiina out aboi-- y s ' ' I his salary and his nose still has the hump, but I'm 21 and getting older every minute. min-ute. Mother is beginning to ask lire-somo lire-somo questions about "this Mr Prentice," and that always stirs me into action. I wonder 11' I'd really Jlkc- being engaged? The summer I was eligaged lo Fred and Walter was diverting at llrst. but got lo be a horrid grind after a while. Engagements Engage-ments are not all they nre cracked up to be, and Just as; sure as you put your head In the noose another man comes along whom you're just dying to get up a lllrta-tlon lllrta-tlon with. Everything thus far has gone with a rush, but now I must go slow. What would you advise? You've had affairs of this sort yourself. Your perplexed per-plexed FLO. NT. May 25. Oh, Ned. would It bo unpardonable If I said, this is sudden? But It truly is; so sudden that I can scarcely lind breath U answer. Perhaps other men havo said the words, but somehow they seem new, and different coming J'rom you! How little 1 dreamed when you wrote ono short month ago asking to call that fate was coming In at the door with you! Just as you say. there seems to be an affinity af-finity between us. and you are the first man I really ever cared for. Of course there have been one or two others mere girlish fancies but they don't count in the least. As soon as I saw yoKT felt there was something between us a strange, Indefinable something which was as real as It was nndetlnable. I am glad you wrote Instead of putting the question on the doorstep, as you Intended. It gives me an opportunity to reflect, and to give you my mature answer. Instead of a llrsl. rash, unconsidered one. Do not Imagine for an instant that your salar of eight thousand has any weight willi me whatsoever, though it was thoughtful and considerate of mi lo mention that, too I have been thinking it over all night, keeping wu letter in my hand the entire time for counsel for you see until you put the question. I was not suro of my own heart. But now I realize that we were made for one another; wo have the same taste In poetry and In other matters, which will certainly insure our happiness through life, and so. sudden as It is. 1 send you my answer ns suddenly, and that answer Is, "Yes." Will It please you If I slen myself. YOL'R FLORRIE? NIT. May 25. Congratulato me. Nell: i have landed him. and am going lo be Mrs. Edwin H. Prentice! Tho way he came to time was beyond all expectations. expecta-tions. I don't know whether It was my new organdie that did the business or because T held off about the bracelet. Anyway, he offered himself Instead of the bracelet, and J tried not to be too keen In accepting. He became confidential, and told me ho had eight thousand a ear can't you see me. Nell, with eight thousand thou-sand a year? Sealskin coats, .matinees and automobiles I'll blow you on your birthday, dear, and you can Invito young Lansing that Is. always providing he Is still the only man you ever, etc.. etc. 1, can quite 'forget the hump on his nose when 1 think of the eight thousand. I told him his proposal was sudden, though 1 mnde up my mind the first day he entered en-tered the house, which was April 23, that ho should propce before summer. So. my dear, sit right down and write me a touching letter of congratulation, for I deservt? it if any girl ever did, after the way I've played my cards. I suppose 1 shall bo asked next to cliooso the ring. Trust" me for getting the best, and believe that the most tickled girl In all the world Is your FL.O. Postscript. Mav 25. evening Oh. Nell! Nell! It's all up! "SVJiat havo I ever done to deserve such punlshmonl? I wrote my acceptance to him and my last to you this morning, and in my excitement ex-citement put them in tho wrong envelopes! en-velopes! Ho has returned yours by mes senger and without a word, and has sent, back my picture. That means it's all off. How terrible, just when I had told the girls and started' the trousseau! Eight thousand swept out of mv reach In u moment. The blow will kill me. You don't recover from things at twenty-four as you do at nineteen. I wonder If I could go In a convent? Your utterly crushed and broken up FLORENCE. o ' ..ft,.., |