Fair to Look Upon

E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Diane Monico, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/c/). Special thanks to Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, for generously providing the vignette on pg. 13.

I HUMMED A GAY LITTLE TUNE FOR HIS BENEFIT.
CHICAGO MORRILL, HIGGINS & CO.
COPYRIGHT: MORRILL, HIGGINS & CO. 1892



I was about to be married. My numerous charms and attractions had won the affections of a young man who was equally charming with myself.
We were sitting on a luxurious divan and he held my milk-white hand in his. I do not make that statement as a startling announcement of an unusual occurrence, but simply as a matter of fact.
We had been conversing about the culinary and domestic arrangements of our future home when matrimony had made us one flesh; or, to use English, we had been wondering what under the canopy a good cooking stove would cost, when he asked suddenly and irrelevantly,
And you will love me, always?