The young woman followed me out to the gate, and entreated me to go on to her father's, and said she would go with me.
"She said the young man who was going to marry her sister had got his license and asked for her.

But she assured me that her father and mother both preferred me to him; and that she had no doubt that if I would go on I could break off the match.

But I found that I could go no farther.

My heart was bruised, and my spirits were broken down.

So I bid her farewell, and turned my lonesome and miserable steps back again homeward, concluding that I was only born for hardship, misery, and disappointment.