Muriel's Stratagem (1910)
Muriel lives with her grandfather, a widower, a real old aristocratic Southern gentleman, who is very fond of her; in fact, the love is mutual. She is in love with a very worthy young man named Harvey. Muriel's grandfather objects to him because he is poor, and, notwithstanding Muriel's pleadings in Harvey's behalf, her grandfather persistently holds out against him. Harvey speaks for himself, but the old gentleman says, "No," and dismisses him abruptly. Now woman's wit gets busy, and Muriel, after drying her tears, comes across an old miniature portrait of her grandmother, when she was a girl, and whom Muriel resembles very closely. Upon comparison with herself, as she looks in the mirror, Muriel recognizes the picture to be exactly like herself. She decides upon a stratagem suggested by the miniature, and immediately goes to a cupboard and pulls out an old trunk from which she takes a lot of old-fashioned clothes which belonged to her grandmother. In the bottom of the trunk she unearths an old newspaper containing an account of her grandmother's elopement with and marriage to her grandfather, just previous to the Civil War, in opposition to the parents of the bride. Muriel dresses herself in one of her grandmother's quaint gowns, and, while her grandfather is quietly dozing in his easy chair, she enters his room and stands where he can see her when he awakes. Gradually opening his eyes, he beholds Muriel, who appears to him as a vision of his wife, who tells him of his elopement and marriage to her and chides him for his opposition to Muriel's marriage to Harvey. The old gentleman can stand it no longer, and, completely overcome, he falls back in his chair in a half faint. Muriel becomes alarmed and rushes to his side, puts her arm around him and tells him that she was impersonating her grandmother; how she found the newspaper, the miniature and the clothes and all about it. Her grandfather is so glad it is nothing worse that he tells her that he was unfair, kisses her and gives his consent to her marriage to Harvey, who is soon upon the scene with Muriel to claim his prize and receives the old gentleman's blessing.
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