Newport, Rhode Island, USA
1877 - Musings

An old lady at Newport, Rhode Island, talking of old times, told the following of a former belle of Newport, Miss Sally Champlin: 'She was a great beauty. She had rejected a great many fine offers, when one day there came a proud gentleman, who, meeting the same fate, did not take it so meekly as the others, and asked for some definite reason. Sally was used to a very different manner, and she turned upon him sharply, 'Sir, you seem to think that it is a very wonderful thing for a man to be rejected. I have refused twenty offers from this very sofa, sir.' One of the listeners inquired: 'What became of the man after that?' 'He became Miss Sally's husband.' Moral - Never bet on the kind of man any woman will marry.

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Augusta Chronicle
Augusta, Georgia
October 18, 1877

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