A Short Engagement single work   short story   romance  
Issue Details: First known date: 1882... 1882 A Short Engagement
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Pleasant divertingly sharp romance. A handsome lieutenant of artillery decides to be kind to a young woman sitting alone at a ball - but in the course of a tete-a-tete she so charms him that he proposes and she accepts. He spends the rest of the night regretting his impulse, she dancing with others, until she reveals she accepted his proposal to teach him care and discretion, and releases him from the engagement. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 18 no. 209 October 1882 Z1014754 1882 periodical issue 1882 pg. 101-103
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