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home continued To be with Aunt Sally.
Now she vas going to reside permanently
with Mr.. Hayden. During her absence in
Maiden, she had exp, renccd little beside
love and Joy, wnrds WE'RE always easy and
ready to her as her breath. yet next morning
on her departure when she received the part.
iny embrace of her foster mother, who she
knew loved her better than any thing else
on earth. she found it impossible to speak.
Aunt Sally remained standing IN the porch
watching the carriage through her tcar-dim-
med spectacles, until II disappeared behind
the hills.
Miss Clara will be kind o. homesick,
guess said Hannah Till, the old lady's help,
who stood in the doorway behind her mis-.
tress.
Yes Aunt Sally replied, wiping her
eyes with the corner of her checked apron
. the old house will be lonesome as "a Jail,
now. She is blessed child, always merry
as cricket, and so handy about the house.
There never was any body like her to cl'irk
me up when had the rheumatic. Well, the
Lords will be done. II is better for her to
go. Mr.. Hayden thinks the world of her,
Cross AS he preiends 10 be, he aln,os, wor.
Ships her, and she can do any thing she pleas.
es with him.
This was an important change 10 Clara,
in mnre respects than one. Hitherto her
better nature had been mos, active, hut she
had never been seriously tempted or tried.
She was now NJ that age wlpn n woman's
character begins to take its lifelong dlrrc.
ton, and she was going to occupy place in
society where there were many fearful ex-
posures.
The next morning after their arrival in
the CITY, Mr.. Hayden led her through the
spacious and laxnriously furnished rooms of
his mansion.
This is your kingdom, Clara, he said
{ yn,i are sole mistress here. Leave my H.
hrary and hed-room undis,urhed. In all
other respects, arrange and rule as yOn
please. have mt brought you here to
spend your days listening to the qneruous
complaints "f u equity old man. Mrs. More,
whom yon have sren formerly, will intro
Il 'ce YOU into what the world calls society.
She is in every respect a suitable chapcron
for von.'
But you will go with me-. You will no,
dismiss me into this strange world without,
your cnun,enance and support 2
Il have renowned it, child | am weary
ofit.-Yoh will find companions enough, and
their batteries may soon lead you to forge,
such an old foil ms l.-Who knows? How
should il he otherwise z he mnlerrd, rs he
drew aside heavy damask curtain tia,
drap"d the window where they stood aud
gazrd absirac,ly on the fashionable ,Irong
below.
The tears started in Clara's eyes, as, IN
struggling t" speak, she laid her hand in his
and l'"krr mp into his face.
i did not mean 10 pain You, child he
said, more kindly, 'hui have very li,ilr
fail, IN human nature. We shall srr. You
are good girl, and perhaps You will succeed
tn convince me that men are all saints. w0>
men all angels, and this wearisom world ni
ours IA very paradise. BIZ, there is Mrs More
with ii h-vy Of fair girls coming to call u"
>m'. Fur tins once will 90 with you Ia
receive ilrm.'
Clara Harrington was not villa, is called
beautiful, Int her mind and heart, now fresI
from her happy home in Mindrn, we're hrau-
'it"l exceedingly, and in her tones, her coun'
'rnance and her manners, there was thai
strange something winch is sure to win re-
>pect and love. Her unworn heart and STRIFE
IDEAS IF truth were often u, variance will
I'll" diplomacy of the fashionable Mrs. M"rr
vet she soon became n favori,e, not only " i'll
thai lady. but also with the gay circle II
which she moved.
As the prolege of Mrs. Mare, and the &C.
knowl-dged I,rircss of Mr.. Hayden, she s"ol
became AN object of no small in,rres, 10 il''
gentlemen. Mr.. Hayden was right. Mrs
More was in all respects very suitable cha
prron. No young lady could move in tn
world of fashion under a more secure o
skilfil guidance. Yet this lady was yer,
a. xious that her protcge should make bril-
liant marriage, and her pride was fully graft
fled when Clara became the promised bird,
of Walter Whitney, a son ofone Of the oldes
and wellhiest families in the city. He ha'
; paid his address to Clara at the suggestion
of managing mother, and was pleased will
. her for several reasons, chiefly, however, be
, cause she was an object Of marked aitentio
to so many others.
He was young, handsome, refined and ele
giant in his manners, and endowed with muc
VII anu ViSacHv. t1e nau n.aue no rehI III
: preston on her heart ;-bnt she was please
: with him and had accepted him, chiefly BE-
, cause he was the iavori.e of Mr. Hayden.
In the feelings with which she made hi
engagement, an eve that read her Who'll
heart, might have seen that Clara was M
altogether the same she had been. All sOci'
diseases are contagious. and her pure an
y ingenious heart was beginning 10 receive some
Thing Of the tone which prevailed among I'll
D fashionable will, whom SHE associated. Oh
ten Of late in her own thoughts she had con
D graduated herself an the ADVANTAGES Of ht
: position and rrj"iced that Mr. Hayden WI
so very rich; and, in accepting Mr.. Will
ney's proposal, SHE thought Of nothing w,
d $" much Satisfaction as thu prospect of bt
u coming f'r lils one Of The prud-si and mo
. cn"rIed of the proud circle where she was.
" II Is irur suc, m"liIa,ions did not alwa,
" leave h'r quite snisG-d with herself. 81
= WAS one "f III" very last 10 aim at inanene
: over her friends. yet Mr.. Hayden was almo
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