SCENE XIx

À young girl whose father had died of apoplexy, lived in an old town with her mother. They were not rich with regard to money, but they wer, very happy together. The daughter gave lessons in science, ar she also taught grammar.

À young man in a neighbouring town wanted her to marry him, but for a long time she hesitated. He was steady and affuctionate, hut he

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was extremoly short-sighted, and the girl could not decide to over. look such à defect. Her mother had a long talk with her, and told her that such a thing should not be an obstacle, Then the daughter objented that she could never leave her mother. ‘Oh 1” replied the latter, ‘‘ you accept the Young man, I shall get on.”

80 after weighing the pros and cons, the girl told the young man that she would consent to marry him, provided that she cr ‘1 live part of the time with her mother. Ho replicd that she was very good to overlook his faults so kindly ; he would only ask her to live two months a year in his town. He would gladly undertake the care of her mother.

Accordingly they were married, and after taking leave of their friends, went away for a month to the country. Then they returned, and began housekeeping in à pretty little house which the young ht 5band had rented before their departure.

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