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    A Proposal Under Difficulties A Farce
    A Proposal Under Difficulties A Farce
    A Proposal Under Difficulties A Farce
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    A Proposal Under Difficulties A Farce

    By John Kendrick Bangs

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    A Proposal Under Difficulties A Farce
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    John Kendrick Bangs

    John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922) was an American writer and editor best known for his works in the fantasy genre. Bangs began his writing career in the 1880s when he worked for a literary magazine at Columbia College. Later, he held positions at various publications such as Life, Harper's Bazaar and Munsey’s Magazine. Throughout his career he published many novels and short stories including The Lorgnette (1886), Olympian Nights (1902) and Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1907).

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      Title: A Proposal Under Difficulties

      A Farce

      Author: John Kendrick Bangs

      Release Date: August 20, 2011 [EBook #37140]

      Language: English

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      A Proposal

      Under Difficulties

      A Farce

      By

      John Kendrick Bangs

      Illustrated

      Harper & Brothers Publishers

      New York and London

      1905

      Copyright, 1896, by Harper & Brothers.

      All rights reserved.

      Published September, 1905.

      CAST OF CHARACTERS

      A PROPOSAL UNDER DIFFICULTIES

      The scene is laid in a fashionable New York drawing-room. The time is late in October, and Wednesday afternoon. The curtain rising shows an empty room. A bell rings. After a pause the front-door is heard opening and closing. Enter Yardsley through portière at rear of room.

      Yardsley. Ah! So far so good; but I wish it were over. I've had the nerve to get as far as the house and into it, but how much further my courage will carry me I can't say. Confound it! Why is it, I wonder, that men get so rattled when they're head over heels in love, and want to ask the fair object of their affections to wed? I can't see. Now I'm brave enough among men. I'm not afraid of anything that walks, except Dorothy Andrews, and generally I'm not afraid of her. Stopping runaway teams and talking back to impudent policemen have been my delight. I've even been courageous enough to submit a poem in person to the editor of a comic weekly, and yet here this afternoon I'm all of a tremble. And for what reason? Just because I've co-come to ask Dorothy Andrews to change her name to Mrs. Bob Yardsley; as if that were such an unlikely thing for her to do. Gad! I'm almost inclined to despise myself. (Surveys himself in the mirror at one end of the room. Then walking up to it and peering intently at his reflection, he continues.) Bah! you coward! Afraid of a woman—a sweet little woman like Dorothy. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Bob Yardsley. She won't hurt you. Brace up and propose like a man—like a real lover who'd go through fire for her sake, and all that. Ha! That's easy enough to talk about, but how shall I put it? That's the question. Let me see. How do men do it? I

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