The Arizona sentinel., 1888-01-28
DIAMOND AND PASTE,
Clarissa's Trip to New York, and
 What Came of It.

dts so nice to have you at home again,r Clarissa." E
 The sun had disappeared behind the Catskills; the evening train had gone on its way, and Clarissa Dorrance was riding homeward, by the side of Hugh Harlahd, with her little trunk neatly wedged in at the back of the one-horse wagon, and her traveling-bag in her lap. ---
 She was a pretty, apple-cheeked girl, with hazel eyes. fringed by long, black lashes; hair that shone like black satin, and sweet, delicately- curved mouth. And as Hugh Har- land looked down upon her, he felt that she was, to him, the woman of women. fair, pure and peerless.
 q dare say" said Clarissa, straight cning the folds of her travelling dress, but you don't reflect how stupid it is for me"
 Stupid, Claryi But it's honle!!'
 And l wish it wasn't" said Cla- rissa, shortly "Oh, you don't know, Hugh. how splendidly they live at Cousin Ianthe's, in New York!''
 DO they?" said Hugh, somewhat blankly. -s-
 ''It's a real elevating, intellectual life" pursued Clarissa, earnestly. Morning concerts. lectures, read ings, and then ve-o' clock teas. and kettle drums in the afternoon, and opera and theater of an evening, if they don't receive themselves. or go out to balls and parties"
 'I don't see when they get time to do the housework," said Hugh, medi- tatively, drawing the whiplash across old Dobbin's back.
 '.Houseworkr' scornfully repeated Clarissa. "They don't do any. There is where the refining influence comes in. They leave all that sort of thing to servants. And I don't think. after my experience of this EIysian life, that I can ever go contentedly back to sweeping floors, cooking dinners, and straining pans full of milk. It's drudgery! The merest drudgery in the world"
 "Isn't it almost a pity that you went 10 New York?' said Hugh, in a low voice.
 "Why?" sharply retorted Clarissa, turning around so as directly to face him.
 Because I don't feel that. with the care of mother on my hands, I can af- ford to keep a girl, "- explained Hugh And if you are to be my wife"-
 That's just what I wanted to speak to you about" said Clarissa.. redden- ing, and uttering her words very fast. 'I think that perhaps it is best for me not to be your wife. "
 "WhatPn cried Hugh. ''CIary! Clary! take care what you say! love you, dear. I've counted on our mar riage for many long year. Don't break my heart now But I'm sure you can't mean it, Clary. I'm sure it's all joke, dear. y
 But dosmean it, "-said Clarissa. Our engagement was all very well at tine time of it, but every thing is al- tered now. T see life from a different standpoint. I shouldn't be at all happy, now, as farmers wife in the Catskills"
 "I see," said Hugh, sadly. You've learned to despise me because 1 work for living. You want to be grand lady, and sit all day with folded hands. Do you think, Clary, that you'll be any happier sop
 '1 mean 10 fry the experiment" Clarissa answered. resolutely.
 And you're tired of me, Clary? Well, that ends the question:" said Hugh, with set lips. 'Tll marry no woman against her will, not if l loved her better than my life. J
 'I am glad you take the matter so sensibly," said CIarissa. 1.-The fact is, Hugh-I may as well tell you now as any time-I have partly engaged my self to Mir. Cadwallade CT Caledon. whom l met in New York. He is an English gentleman. heir to a baron- ctcy, at present visiting the city, and l felt ,-as-soen- asI saw him, that our .oals were born to burn, sacred flame, on the same altar''
 "HumphT' said Hugh. 'Is it the fashion in New York for a girl to be plighted to two men at once?"
 Il said I was partialy engaged" explained Clarissa. with Tuning cheeks. "Of course l trusted 10 your magnanimity to release me from a bondage which could no longer en- dure."
 'It shall be as you please" said Hugh, listlessly.
 And he left her and the trunk at Ter own door, and drove spiritlessiy