I Forbid the Banns! — page 80: what you’re looking at

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7° “7 FORBID THE BANNS!” If the young woman could only be brought to think SO. But she never can. The young woman thinks that a lover with a tendency to inconstancy is better than no lover at all. She is deeply wounded when he is inconstant, because she knows that people will say she was neither clever enough nor beautiful enough to keep him constant to her. . But the worst feature of Miss Travers’ case was that her lover had not declared himself to be such. ‘The one man who leads the horse to the water, with infinite tact, giving it to understand how delightful a draught of that cool ele- ment will be, must certainly attract to himself a good deal of sympathy when the stubborn brute refuses to drink, ‘and resists the efforts of the nineteen assistants whose services the man requisitions to make the horse drink. Mr. Charlton was being coaxed up to the brink of love- making, and he not only refused to take the smallest sip , out of the magic chalice, but he had actually broken the silken cord with which he was being led to the fascinating draught, and had raced off with his head in the air to where a very ordinary cup was being offered to him. ) Who has laid down any rule for the guidance of a young woman under circumstances such as these ? Marian Travers was a sensible girl. She resolved to do nothing—yjust yet. She knew that the worst way to go about making a horse drink the water that it has refused is to run after it. She resolved not to run after her horse. She had heard of silken cords having been broken, and afterward re-joined with such adroitness that no one could tell where the severance had taken place. | She felt herself equal to the task of reuniting the several | om (ELON KS4EO)