Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-03-26

At length the sugar .'frathered;" then
the kettle was removed from the fire. and
all things made ready for the feast
Nicholas tub of snow was in demand
Basins and pans were filed; and the snow
covered and deeply strsaked with sugar
which had been poured upon it, was pass
ed around TO the company. Boys and
girls ate from the same dishes. delighted;
drawing the hard wax out cf the snow and
quarreling for itplayfully. Some, however,
took their sugar in saucers, and cooled it
by stirring to make it grain. The kitchen
was the scene Of this "sugarlng off" and
the mot perfect happiness prevailed.
With one exception. Eliva did not like
to see Lawrence drawing wax with Helen
in a corner by themselves. Having tried
in vain to separate them, she gave up in
despair, and was only miserable. Yet
she woull not acknowledge, even to her.
self, that Helen was anything but silly
goose. and that Lawrence was not "ma-
king fun" of her.
Was IL possible that her cousin enjoyed
himself as well as he pretended to? Was
it genui .e good nature which caused him
to appear SO highly amused, when Jane
Fairfield and Lizzie Wyman were engaged
in sweet combat, and fought each other
with ropes of wax? Eliva felt more like
crying with vexaIion!
At length, af.er few games had been
played, and the company hal danced liz
tie to Edward Jones playing the flute, af
tel the guests had feasted on sugar, and
exhausted all the inventions Of mirth, the
party broke up and the young people be-
gan to take their leave.
Eiva WAS congratulating herself with
the reflection tina. il was all over, and that
Lawrence would never see one of tie ''vul-
gar, odious company" again, when, to her
infinite astonishment and vexaiion, her cou-
sin whispered in her ear that he had en-
gagged to walk home with Helen!
How blind is pride! Eliva saw in this
arrangement only the vaniiy of Helen and
The mischievous nature of her cousinl-
She could not believe that he had any bet
Ter motive than to amuse himself with the
effects Of his fatteryl And although she
WAS little astonshed that he did 70,
make fun" of her on his return, she would
not change.
Even on the following day. when Law
renee called on Miss Snow. Eliva silently
accused him of malice. How could she
think Of anything else as long as it was
her settled conviction thar, could he forget
that she ever associated with such people,
he would adore her; and her hope that
she should some day become Mrs. Law
renee Gray, and occupy his house in the
| ci Y?
But disenchantment came. II was du
ring the f,llowing autumn. Lawrence,
having visited C during the sum-
mer, was at his uncle's house again. Eli
va was falte,ing herself iha, she was '.cer-
tain of him.
Coz. sail he. sitting down by her side,
I've some thou ght of changing my way Of
living, think l have lived the dreary
iif. of a bachelor ,ng enough
Eliva cast her e. es 1own discreetly.
Il hope you will make good choice. ;
she murmured.
Il think | have
Lawrence looked her full in the face
She turned away modestly.
Ever since | have known anything of
the world he continued. Il have believed
that tie man is less liable to be deceived.
who takes his wife from a country home.
than he who mar les one city born and
bred
OH Perhaps you are right sighed
Eiva.
And have chosen accordingly.
have come here for a wife
Here! exclaimed Eliva, affecting to be
surprised
.Yes--here, in the town of c.; AID
| have chosen HELEN Snow
Had her cousin declared an intention TO
selec; consort from tribe of Esqui
maux, Elva could scarcely have been
more surprised. So utterly unable was she
to realize the siarilngtruih, that Il is gene
rally thought that she never believed her
cousin TO be in earnest, until his marriage
with Helen actually took place, few days
ago; and even now, in her inability 20
understand how such things can be, she
more than half believes that there was
some sort of enchantment used on the
night Of her last--her fatal--but never
to-be-forgolten SUGAR PARTY.