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LETTER LXVIII. From a Gentleman advanced in Years to a...

Laurel Cottage, December 12, 1918.
Miss Wilson:

You will probably be astonished on perusing the contents of this letter, but I trust, nevertheless, that I shall not offend you by what I have written, nor suggest occasion for ridicule.

I cannot disguise from you the fact that I am many years your senior, and, according to every-day notions, I ought not to address you in any other strain than that which an elderly friend might adopt. But if I venture to overstep the prescribed limits, I must seek for an excuse in your loveliness and amiability, which have taken so strong a hold of me as to make me forget aught else but that I admire you ardently and esteem you tenderly.

The world, I am aware, is apt to censure a union where a disparity of years is conspicuous; but permit me to remark that there are alliances far more ill-- assorted, in which, it is true, there is an agreement of age, but a want of harmony in views, tastes, and sentiments, provocative of more unhappiness than the binding of youth with age.

Should you honor me with your hand, my endeavor would be, by constant solicitude and affection, to make you forget or overlook my gray hairs; whilst, in common gratitude for your having consented to cheer my declining days, the remnant of my life should be devoted to consulting your interests and gratifying your wishes.

I trust you will not think I am hinting at a bribe when I state that my means are more than ample to procure for you every comfort and luxury that life can afford; and when I am gone I shall be able to secure to you a provision befitting a lady.

Ardently trusting that you may be prevailed upon to reply, I remain, Miss Wilson,

Your sincere admirer,

Joseph Munson.

To Miss Adelaide Wilson.

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