The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1881-04-14

She bad been introduced to him
there, and be. like many another,
fell 10 love with her.
Of all the men she had met she
liked him the best, ani, not a week
prior to the advent OF Mr.. Cox rs a
lodger at her mothers house, she
nad as good as consented TO be en-.
gagged to him.
1t is unpleasant to pick holes 10
anybody's character, aui doubly un.
pleasant to pull to pieces tue dis
position of one who is in all exter.
nal things perfection. But the
truth must be told-Clara Moore
was terrible hir.; aud, like most
ilirts, she seemed to have q total
disregard for the feelings of her vic.
tins She would lead a tnln on to
believe at least in the possibility of
his Que day securing her affections
indeed, the very fact of wom,n
tarryiny 10 mans society to listen
to bis love passages, is ia itself au
earnest of her appreciation of his
society, aud then, when it suited her
caprice, would throw him over and
laugh at him.
Clara Moore had tried young Ar.
mold Cal lew's patience to tue ut.
most more than once. Ay. scores
aud scores of times she had dos :
troyed his peace Of mind by her per
nicious fonlness for what she called
u "harmless Irritation"
And we must give her credit for
the fact that her l,rtitious vera in
one sense harmless there was no
vice abpve her. She never forgot
that self-respect which renders a
woman precious in the eyes OF
men.
When Arnold Carew won her con.
sent to be engaged to lim-for she
as good as promised him to become
bis wife "some day." though she -x.
pressed herself in sufficiently inIe-
finite terms to admit Of her csc ,piny
from her promise il she pleased to
change her mind, without his being
ab to affirm she had ever strictly
bound herse!fto hm-he was well
satisfied. lie felt he could trust
her and even bear her flirting pro.
pensties with greater equanimity
than he bud hitherto been able to
do.
There were few evenings on which
Arnold Carew failed to walk over
from his fathers farm and enjoy a
pleasant stroll with "the lady OF his
love-"
Happy evenings were they for
him. through the day he
looked forward to them they light
ened his toll and made his existence
much happier than it had ever been.
He had double incentive to
work. 1t was not self that he toilel
for only, now he knew that he was
working for her
Mr.. Cox had not been located in
Mrs. Moore's small though comfort
able apartments more than afortnight
before Clara's evening rambles with
Arnold Carew became less fre
quent.
Clara had all alone been very sill
ent rs to tue lodyer aud ut first it
never entered into Arnold Carew' &
mind that accounted in any way for
her less frequent appearance ut their
usual rendezvous.
One evening, however. he ventur.
ed to complain, and chancsd in his
temporary annoyance to say; sob,
! suppose there is some attraction
about this heavy swell who is stay
ipg at your mothers"
Clara flushed up in moment, and
answered, hotly : "You are quite
welcome to think what you please
in that respect, He is a perfect
gentleman, which is saying more for
him than one can say for every
body"
II don't pretend to be gentle
man, was Arnold's cool answer /;
NOR do profess to be an educated
fellow. IkuoS you can beat me
hollow as far as learning goes but
learning is not everything in this
world; aud people can feel and
think with only little Of IT,"
Now Clara was very fairly eiucat. /.
ed. indeed /; and, certainly, was what
is vnlgularly called more Of u 'scAol.
ar than her sweetheart but he
suas onk ~ ;.u,.,s.a. H.