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LETTER LXXII. From a Gentleman Proposing Marriage.

Jamaica, Long Island, March 5, 1911.

My Dear Peggy:

Your parents will ere this have told you that I have asked and received their consent to making you my wife. I have now to solicit you to permit my visits as your suitor and accepted lover, until the happy day when you will be pleased to reward me by giving me the right to call you mine. At different times I have essayed to make this request verbally, but an unaccountable feeling dashed all my resolution at the moment my tongue was about to express the dearest wish of my life. I know that you are convinced that I love you truly, honorably and devotedly; and, if I know my own heart, its dearest promptings and desires will ever be devoted to the purposes of making your life as happy as it is permitted to the most favored of mortals to be.

I shall look forward with feelings of pleased anxiety till I have the supreme pleasure of receiving your, I trust, favorable reply.

Ever your own,

Charlie Norton.
To Miss Peggy Western.

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