Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-10-06

| fore light every Monday morning, to help his
sisters sservaDt-gir get breakfast. They could not
have said it was because he was in such haste,
| for when 1t was ready he was in no hurry about
dispatehing 1t, but fingered and loitered at the
taDie III an lraccountaDie manner, and then he
fingered still longer at the hall door with Clara
| Lord beside him, and more than once he-yes,
actually he kissed his sisters servant-9irl. In
truth lie fingered so long that the sound of the
coming train compelled him TO run to the sta
tion. If any of the Cumberland gossips had
been early risers, they might have been seen OF
a Monday morning IN the grey winters dawn,
MIR. Osgood rushing down street like school
hoy to catch the early Albany train. The nat
nral Inference of course would have been that
he remained in bed until the last minute.
One day in the spring Clara went home for
an hour or two, and found her sister Grace
JuDilant over successful venture. One of her
manuscripts was at last accepted. The remun-
Grafton was small, it is true, but it was begin
ninS. Affairs had me nded with the Lords by
this time. Mr.. Lords health was much improy-
ed and he was able to attend to bis business
again.
'Gracie,' said Clara, Il will give you bit of
confidence In return for yours. l am to change
my position, and keep house for Mr.. Osgood.'
''Why Clara! Mr.. Osgoodl Is he married p
lie expects TO be soon,' said Clara, with a
smile.
'Oh Clara said Grace earnestly, SIS it so2-
How very, very glad am for you. But she
continued, archly, 'are you sure that he Is a fine
man and good providerp
IL may bo well TO state in passing, that Mr..
Simpsons unwecome visits had ceased.
III May there was quiet wedding at the
Lords, for it was one Of Clara Lords peculiar
notions That there should be no ostentation
abou. wedding. She was so ell-fashoued as
10 consider it sacred occasion, and stranger
yet, Mr. Osgood was so old fashioned as to
agree with her.
What did Mrs. Reynolds say at her wealthy
bachelor brothers marrying her servant girl
ane SAID she should never, never find anybody
VINO couiu prove so great treasure in her
household as Clara had been. And she was hv
no means mortally offended with her brother,
for she graced his wedding with her presence,
John Osgood had been looked upon by his
friends as confirmed bachelor, and when they
rallied linn on committing matrimony, he said
he had long been looking for u woman both SELL
shle and attractive, and having found one, he
had been so fortunate as to win her.
And what did Mr.. Clarke Harley say? He
said Il might have married Mrs John Osgood
ii | had chosen,' one breath, and 10 the next,
he averred that Clara Lord was firt and had
treated him very slahbily, and 1t never occult
red to him that anybody could see any incon-
sstency, in his statement.
And what did the Cumberland gossips say
Van ybu dSh uthf Ttauefg vi course they said
that Clara Lord insraiated herself into the good
eraces of the Reynolds, for the sole purpose of
putting herself in Mr.. John Osgood's way. But
Mr. and Mis-. John Ossood were so well salts
TED with each other, and so happy that they did
not know ncr care what people said. Clara is
the queen of housekeepers and home makers,
and Is as content in her vocation as If il were
considered what she honestly believes it to be,
the highest and holest in the land.
One more of Clara's queer notions and we
are done. She eXpects,--and Mr.. Osgood agrees
with her in this, as in most other things,-that
each of her daughters, as well as her sons, OH
completing hes education shall turn her atten-
tion towards some congenal mode of earning
her livelihood. If they are SO fortunate as TO
have happy homes Of their own, then womans
holest vocation will be theirs. But none of her
daughters must marry for a home or positon.--
NO woman saws Clara O>g nod, 'cam know the
value OF money, until she earns what she
spends, and no woman can become truly grand,
well-developed, and symmetrical, who is incapa-
bic OF Standing al''ne and earning her own iv-
ing SARAH e. DUDLEY.