Marrying the wrong lady.
--The following is a love story brought to light recently by proceedings in the German law courts: Vienna has been stirred up lately by the comical result of a strange love story. It seems that, in the house of one Herr Kuhne, a teacher of languages, Dr. Kant, a young lawyer, happened to make the acquaintance of a lady, burdened with some property and thirty years. The lady, being unmarried, evidenced particular interest in the young, shy and rather abashed man of law. She made love to him — in fact, very strongly — and persuaded him to visit her at her house. But alas! he loved another lady. One evening, while conversing with the Doctor, she said: ‘"Why, with your favorable idea of matrimony, may I ask if you ever thought of marrying yourself?"’ Dr. Kant sighed, and, his eyes resting on the ground, hesitatingly muttered in reply: "I have already thought of marrying, and made my choice, but--" "But!" the lady hastily interposed. "But," he continued, "the lady is rich, very rich, and I am poor. I am afraid I could hardly aspire to her hand; and rather than allow myself to be taxed with sordid designs, I will bury my passion in my breast and leave it unavowed forever." At an early hour the following day she, however, betook herself to a solicitor, and, in legal form, declared her wish to present and hand over, as his property, the sum of 150,000 guilders (£150,000) to Dr. Kant. When the document had been signed and duly completed, she sat down in the office, and, enclosing it in an elegant envelope, added a note to the following effect. Dear Sir:
--I have much pleasure in enclosing a paper, which I hope will remove the obstacle in the way of your marriage.
Believe me, etc.,
Dr. Kant.--for he and no other was the addressed — was the happiest man in the world on receiving this generous epistle. Repairing at once to the parents of Fraulien Fischel, the lady of his love, he proposed for, and received, the hand of a girl who had been long flattered by his delicate, though unavowed, intentions. His reply to Fraulien Martini, besides conveying his sincere thanks, contained two cartes de viste, linked to Miss. Martini forthwith sued the happy bridegroom for restitution, but as no promise of marriage had been made, the case was, by two successive courts, decided against her.
