I burnt all the verses, so don't expect to see them, and he, poor fellow, is consoling himself with Emma.

But the worst of all was the one who would make love in public and insisted on proposing in the middle of a dance.

I seldom dance round dances except with our boys, but that night I did because the girls laughed at me for being so 'prudish,' as they called it.

I don't mind them now, for I found I was right, and felt that I deserved my fate." "Is that all ?" asked her uncle, looking "fierce," as she predicted, at the idea of his beloved girl obliged to listen to a declaration, twirling on the arm of a lover.
"One more but him I shall not tell about, for I know he was in earnest and really suffered, though I was as kind as I knew how to be.

I'm young in these things yet, so I grieved for him, and treat his love with the tenderest respect." Rose's voice sank almost to a whisper as she ended, and Dr.Alec bent his head, as if involuntarily saluting a comrade in misfortune.