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THE HOME CIRCLE
A SIGN OF TRUE LOVE
Rarely, indeed almost never, is it of any use for a man to ask advice as to how he shall manage a proposal of marriage to the woman of his choice. Books of etiquette, with formulas for every occasion, counsel from obliging and deeply interested friends, however experienced, alike are of little or no avail to “him who lacks a tongue.”
Shyness is, above all, a distinguishing characteristic of true love, and the man who has most cause highly to esteem himself is often the one who is most diffident, who will stammer and blush like a bashful schoolboy in the presence of the woman whom he believes to be the paragon of her s*x and who all the while, if the truth were known, may be longing to help him out with his faltering speech.
Camperdown Chronicle, 1
