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The Blunders of a Bashful Man

CHAPTER VIII
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I was given to understand that Belle Marigold was actually engaged to Fred Hencoop.

And she might have been mine! Alas, that mighty _might_! "Of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these--'It might have been!'" I am positive that when I first came home from school she admired me very much.

She welcomed my early attentions.

It was only the ridiculous blunders into which my bashfulness continually drove me that alienated her regard.

If I had not caught my foot in the reins that time I got out of the buggy in front of her house--if I had not fallen in the water and had my clothes shrink in drying--nor choked almost to death--nor got under the counter--nor failed to "speak my piece"-- nor sat down in that mud-puddle--nor committed suicide--nor run away from home--nor performed any other of the thousand-and-one absurd feats into which my constitutional embarrassment was everlastingly urging me, I declare boldly, "Belle might have been mine." She had encouraged me at first.


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