Connecticut western news., 1879-05-07
Her Rustic Lover.

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 Dinner was over, and all the dishes cleared away and the thrifty farmers wife had sat down to her sewing, with pair of silver spectacles perehed on her Roman nose. Fanny Clifford eat op- posite-a trim, pretty damsel, with 6 sweet sunburntface, and great gray eyes, with blue-black flashes coming and go- ing in their irises.
 ss.So Miles has really gonea" said Fanny, after moments silence; and there was a little qutyer in her voice that the mother fully comprehended.
 "Yes," said Mrs. Perry, stitching dili- gently away at the unbleached cotton shirt she was making for her husband, and pretending not to see the flush on Fanny's cheek, Che has gone; and great fool he is, in my humble opinion" "Oh, Mrs. Peiryl' deprecated Fanny. ss We'll, what else is it ?" asked Mrs. Perry, looking in an owlish fashion through the round lenses of her spec tacies. "Hcre he is, with asnioe farm as there is in the country, and him the only son, and yet he's possess ed to go to the city and clerk it, just because he thinks it little genteeler than to plow and SOW and reap, as his father and grandfather before him, and "-she hesi- tated little here" because he fancies Antonia Archer will be pleased.
 "I've no patience wish him; and l wish she had never come down to the Morrises, turning the heads of the girls with her city airs and fripperies, and flirting with every young man she could entice into her tolls.
 "She-she is very attractive" said poor Fanny.
 "Yes, to them as likes gliding better than true gold, and is caught by red cheeks and dashing ways. We'll "- after moments pause, during which she stabbed her needle uindictiyely into the unofending cloth" there's some as can learn by experience only, and oul Miles is one of the solt. He'll be back I expect, when he's found out he ism the only poor moth whose wings hav' been scorched in the fl ame of coquette' wicked eyes"
 "Oh, Mrs. Perry, Miss Archer neve would refuse Miles.
 ' If thought she wouldn't, shoul give up," said Mrs. Perry, energetically ssTo think of this kitchen, as I've cleane every Saturday morning, and kept s sweet and fresh as rose, being left to miserable hired girl, while my lady idle in the best rooml do believe it woul drive me crazy.
 -" But you're not going, Fanny? Sta to tea, there's dear, and I'll mix pa O light biscuit, and gather some O thel strawberries, as would make a fit suppt for princess. Stay, Fanny; it's SO O company for me to have you here."
 And Fanny Clifford stays, her poo sore heart somewhat relieved by u sympathy unspoken, yet expressed, Miles Perry's mother.
 The June sunset, fading in such te der tints of rose and opal and gold ov the old farm, was full of glow and su triness in London.
 The season was dull.
 It was Saturday afternoon, and u Messrs. Scratch & Staylace, after gt ting all they could out of their muc enduring clerks, had at last reluctant closed their firm and p 1t up their wood shutters.
 And Miles Perry, tired and weary, b at last the opportunity to hurry hol to his garret room in third hou
 But tonight he would call on M Archer and with eager restlessness tried on collar after collar, and fina adjusted scarlet silk necktie, for wh he had paid the, to him, extravags sum of five shillings, securing it wit gaudy pin, borrowed from one of companions at Messrs. Scratch & St lace's, and brushed diligently ay until every speck of dust was remo7 from his coat and trowsers, pausing the last to give his boots an extra shi
 ''I don't suppose" he said to h self, when, all these prelimjnaries e. pleted, he took farewell survey of b self in the glass, that any one VIC know me for country fellow now"
 And, to complete the illusion,
 young aspirant lighted 8 cigar,
 made himself uncomfortable with he walked along the streets, now br
 with the gleam of many gaslights.
 Miss Antonia Archer lived in an
 tocratic and pretentious locality, wi
 good deal of polished glass and pl
 door hinges, and at No. - street,
 Miles Perry presented himself,
 blushing countenance and throbl
 heart.
 The servant, young damsel in
 ribbons and smart talpaca dress, lo