Show sf CONCLUDED 60 constitutionally S BASHFUL cr ambled op up and gave the animal a b blo bio I 1 NA what khal I 1 hat bat t sent her to the other side of the r roa 0 and hatless and bloody made for th theadoor thedoor thea theu door with frantic haste baste I 1 seized the handle bandle it did not yield tile the door was fastened by a spring lock and I 1 was a prisoner imagine my dismay florence stood looking at me and there was a smile oa on her face that she with great difficulty restrained from brea breaking kium hium into a decided hal ha just then I 1 would have sold myself to any reliable inai binm it for a sixpence with thirty days credit mortified and crestfallen I 1 was wan strongly 0 tempted to follow the example of the heroines in the sensation novels and burst into tears but crying 0 it is said makes the nose red and remembering this I 1 fore bore I 1 suppose florence pitied me she must have seen from the woebegone woe expression of my face that I 1 was in the last stages of human endurance for she came to my side and nud laid her hand on my arm come in roy she said kindly almost tenderly I 1 thought 0 and aud drew me into a small boudoir opposite the sitting 0 room things in the latter ap apartment artmen t were too nearly wrecked to make it pleasant for occupation I 1 suppose there she said seating me oil on a sofa by her side and speaking in a consoling tone ione that one would use to a child who had burnt his apron or broken the sugar sugar CX bowl dont think anything more about it she was wiping 0 the blood from autograph on my face with her handkerchief acci accidents dents will happen you know she was s so 0 close clos e to me her ber sweet face so very near mine and aud the temptation so 0 great I 1 trust I 1 may be excused espich especially ally aily as I 1 am a bashful man and not in the habit of committing 0 such in discretions I 1 threw my arms around her and paid back the kiss I 1 had kept so long A burning blush overspread her face 1 1 1 oh goh roy eoy how bow could youl she exclaimed reproachfully I 1 had gone too far to retreat the word which for years had filled my heart struggled 0 led up to my lips alid clamored for utterance ance florence florencel I 1 cried pas passionately siona slona tey 1 I lote love you and I 1 want you yon to be entire entirely y mine I 1 take me and cure me roe of the bashful foll folly Y which has been the bane brine of my rny life aishe she did not reply I 1 was in a tumult of fear and hope but a sort of desperate courage kept me firm uj one one word florence only one word in am I 1 to be consigned to hade or paradise do not keep me in sus suspense pensel 1 I she nestled closer to my side her soft wick rested against mine her breath wept swept my lips she spoke but one word I 1 la ll 11 accents ic cents accents of deepest tenderness and that word gord was my name ledy tedy florence I 1 orence my darling 1 irv ruit runt t that everybody will forgive and t arit arlt ably toward me when I 1 declare orm ORin odor odor onor that I 1 was happier at that momen ran dan t an I 1 had ever evet been in my lif life ilfe i e before no popping it ping C the question has always been acknowledged to be a serious piece of busin bugin e leand if ordina ordinary y men find it a serious bu bus busness sit sin mess ness ess how miach much more terrible must it be to a bashful individual 1 l like A silence fell between florence and me roe perhaps I 1 was tras holding lier so clo cio cloye close seito to my that the effect of speaking was was difficult T not wonder by and nd b by she line dud aud dup her face hind and said quietly did yon jon op mean for we tile to marry YOU vou boy hoy marry murry marry meney mev mey dearest and that too before many days have elapsed I 1 have been a fool so ion lon long iong that I 1 cannot afford to wait gyes yes bat but if I 1 promise myself to you how can I 1 be sure that on the way to the altar you will not jump over the fen fenee fence e add and leave mo me to fate and will richardson confound will richardson florence forgive me ine I 1 was little less than a brute 1 Is there peace between us I 1 both peace and love she whispered softly and my heart was at rest my mother was overjoyed at the turn affairs had bad taken Evey everything thing had ban bad happened just as she wished and to this day the good lady idolizes edo iHo lizes tomatoes insisting upon it that it was through the agency of those preserves that florence and I 1 came to an understanding 0 it might 0 have been I 1 cannot tell great events sometimes originate in small causes florence dear little wife wifel I 1 for she has sustained that relation to me for five years and if she has not cured me of my bashfulness she has at least broken me of its extreme folly to other men afflicted as I 1 r was as with constitutional shyness I 1 can conscientiously recommend my course dont be bo afraid the ladies admire courage and none but the brave deserve the fair |