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Pretty Madcap Dorothy: or, How She Won a Lover
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One day, when the sun was shining, and the birds were twittering to each other of early spring, Harry Kendal asked the pale, sweet girl who knelt beside his couch to be his bride.
And she answered him, through her bitter tears, that though she had been mad enough to learn to love him, it could never be, for she was betrothed to Jack.
Jack had entered the room unperceived by both, and had heard all, and with the magnanimity so characteristic of him, he stepped nobly forward and placed Jessie's hand in that of the man she loved.
"I absolve you from your promise, my dear girl," he said. "You must wed him whom you love best. Never mind me."
"But you?" sobbed Jessie. "I – I will accept my freedom only on one condition, Jack; and that is, that you ask Dorothy to fill my place – aye, to take her own old place again in your heart and life!"
"Not now," he said; "but perhaps I may speak to her some time in the future."
And he must have spoken to her, for three weeks later there was a double wedding at the Garner mansion; and there never were two more beautiful brides than Jessie and Dorothy, nor two happier young husbands than Harry Kendal and Jack Garner; and Jack never ceased blessing the fates that gave to him for his bride, after all his trials, pretty Madcap Dorothy. But, then, the course of true love never did ran smooth.
THE END
And she answered him, through her bitter tears, that though she had been mad enough to learn to love him, it could never be, for she was betrothed to Jack.
Jack had entered the room unperceived by both, and had heard all, and with the magnanimity so characteristic of him, he stepped nobly forward and placed Jessie's hand in that of the man she loved.
"I absolve you from your promise, my dear girl," he said. "You must wed him whom you love best. Never mind me."
"But you?" sobbed Jessie. "I – I will accept my freedom only on one condition, Jack; and that is, that you ask Dorothy to fill my place – aye, to take her own old place again in your heart and life!"
"Not now," he said; "but perhaps I may speak to her some time in the future."
And he must have spoken to her, for three weeks later there was a double wedding at the Garner mansion; and there never were two more beautiful brides than Jessie and Dorothy, nor two happier young husbands than Harry Kendal and Jack Garner; and Jack never ceased blessing the fates that gave to him for his bride, after all his trials, pretty Madcap Dorothy. But, then, the course of true love never did ran smooth.
THE END
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