Recollections, personal and literary . We finally met one summer evening atthe house of the elderly young person, butnothing remarkable happened. It never doeswhen it is expected to, and when match-making minds try to lead up to it. MissBarstow and I were not apparently suitedto each other. I was a penniless youngman of about twenty-five, good-looking, it 112. Portrait of Mr. Stoddard in Early Manhood. OUR COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE was thought, with a knack at writing verses,but ill-dressed, careless in my personal ap-pearance, and with no manners to speakof. She was a young woman of about thesam
Recollections, personal and literary . We finally met one summer evening atthe house of the elderly young person, butnothing remarkable happened. It never doeswhen it is expected to, and when match-making minds try to lead up to it. MissBarstow and I were not apparently suitedto each other. I was a penniless youngman of about twenty-five, good-looking, it 112. Portrait of Mr. Stoddard in Early Manhood. OUR COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE was thought, with a knack at writing verses,but ill-dressed, careless in my personal ap-pearance, and with no manners to speakof. She was a young woman of about thesame age, was handsome, though a littlefaded, had a sharp tongue and off-handways, a determination of her own, and hadbeen accustomed to be tenderly cared forall her life. The only thing we shared incommon was love of books. Miss Barstow invited me to her fathershouse at Mattapoisett, to spend the Fourthof July. We read and talked and walkedand rode together, and very odd riding itwas on my part, for I had not been on theback of a horse since I was a boy in Abing-ton. The something that was expected tohappen before happened now, neither quiteknew how. I thought that I had lost myheart, as the saying is: she knew that shehad not lost hers, but she rather liked me,if only for my simplicity. To cut the matter short, for courtship is aflat affair, outside of
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