Hi and welcome back to Nighty Night, bedtime stories to keep you awake.

I'm your host, Rabiachadri. In this week's episode, we encounter

a love so true that even death does not do the lovers apart.

John Charington, but he thought differently, and things with John Charington intended had a queer way of coming to pass. He asked her to marry him before he went up to Oxford. She laughed and refused him. He asked her again next time he came home.

Again, she laughed, tossed her dainty blonde head, and again refused. A third time he asked her, she said it was becoming a

confirmed bad habit and laughed at him more than ever. John was not the only man who wanted to marry her. She was the bell of our village

coterie and we were all in love with her more or less. It was a sort of fashion, like heliotpe Ties or Inverness Capes.

Therefore we were as much annoyed as surprised when John Charington walked into our little local club.

We held it in a loft over the saddlers I remember, and invited us all to

his wedding. Your wedding? You don't mean it. Who's the happy fair? When's it to be?

John Sherrington filled his pipe and lighted it before he replied. Then he said, I'm sorry to deprive you fellows of your only joke, but Miss Forster and I are to be married in September.

You don't mean it! He's got the mitten again and's turned his head.

No, I said rising, I see it's true.

Lend be a pistol someone or a first-class fare to the other end of nowhere.

Charington has bewitched the only pretty girl in our 20-mile radius.

Was it Mesmerism or a love potion, Jack? Neither, sir, but a gift you'll never have, perseverance, and the

best luck a man ever had in this world. There was something in his voice that silenced me, and all chafe of the

other fellows failed to draw him further. The queer thing about it was when we congratulated

Miss Forster, she blushed and smiled and

dimpled for all the world as though she were in love with him and had been in love

with him all the time. Upon my word I think she had.

Women are strange creatures.

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