City and town life -- Fiction; Southern States -- Fiction; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- Fiction
"Under ordinary circumstances I'd never dare hope for such a boon. I'm
unworthy of you. No man can be--but consider what will happen if you
refuse?"
"What will happen?" she exclaimed.
"You must pass the remainder of your days, the sweetest, most beautiful
years of a woman's life, in intimate daily contact with a suffragist,
with a young woman who votes like a man!"
"God help me! What do you mean?" she cried in genuine alarm.
"Bob's going to marry Selah! that's what I mean. You'll have to live
with them. And if you don't marry me, I'll have to live with them!"
THE END
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