The Arizona sentinel., 1889-09-28
A SAMPLE QUARREL.
Wherein Is Shown That True Love
Has a Hard Time of It.

Has a Hard Time of 1t.
Undoubtedly, Captain Duncan, it
seems trife to you, but since that
means that l can no longer feel toward
you as have felt, that means also that
YOU can not care much for my good
opinion"
"But, Miss Chapman, /"
at is really of no use to discuss the
matter"
Pardon ne, but there is use in dis
cussing it. That will, at least give me
a chance to see how far you are de-
termined to carry your injustice" :"
my injustioer'
That's what l said"
Then it is your intention to be inn
pertinent"
Nonsense! Come, now, Kate.
doesn't it strike you that we have gone
fast and far enough on this roadP For
my part, / am sure that do not find
quarreling with any body very enter
tanning, and least of all quarreling
with you"
''You speak as if we were two chill
dren who had fallen into a petty
broil."
Not quite; but we have come un-
comfortably near it.
Il am sure it is not my fault"
''It is nobodY's fault, Kate, and am
anxious that it do not prove to any
body's fortune.
''But why do you persist in doing
what l have asked you not TOP"
'Am l trying to please myself in
taking Miss Dennison to the shore?"
You are certainly not trying to
please me?"
''You would be better pleased, then,
if l broke my promise to her aunt,
who is one of my mothers oldest
friends, and did not take her after 1
have agreed TOP"
"But you need not have promised.
What has that to do with the ques-
tion now? If have promised l must
fulfill my engagement, must notP'
'You seem to think So"
II seem to think so! Good heavens,
Kate, you are evidently trying to show
me that contrary to my firm belief you
can be one of the most aggravating
women alive"
1T is well to learn in time"
''In timer"
''Yes, while you can yet draw back. y"
And have given you a right to
talk like that"
No, no; l do not require right. l
assure you that when 1 make up my
mind to be disagreeable do not wait
for any excuse"
Then you are only giving me an
exhibition of histrionic talent / am
glad of it; l am sure you do it well,
but l am too fond of you to enjoy it. :"
so you think am acting. l am as
thoroughly in earnest as ever was in
my life."
But you can not be so foolish as to
insist that / should break my engage
ment to drive Miss Dennison to the
shore 1t is, after all. no great mat
ter; we shall be back in an hour"
"A great many things may happen
in an hour. l know how rapidly you
can get ahead"
''Kater'
''How do you know that in the
course of an hour you may not become
engaged to Miss Dennison! l am sure
20 mo -, bof
Perhaps she will not be so easily
persuaded as you were"
Captain Duncan"
"WeI?"
''And you pretend to call yourself
gentleman? Very well, sir, if 1 was
easily persuaded to become engaged to
one who is capable of twitting me with
it. have at least the spirit to free my
self from the engagement quite as
quickly"
There, there, Kate, 1 was only
forced to make a back stroke in self
defense. / meant nothing at all"
"But do"
Then / am to understand that"
"You are to understand that every
thing is over between us. :"
''Forever?"
Certainly"
''And not to be made up tomorrow
morningP"
''Of course not"
Nor the day afterP"
Never"
"Then / am of course free to do
what like in the way of making new
ties?"
ut is nothing to me what you do
If you are not restrained by a sense of
decency there is nothing to prevent
your becoming engaged again within
twenty-four hours"
Very we'll l thought l would like
to understand thoroughly just where
stood before / started for the shore
with Miss Dennison, She is SO con-
toundedly handsome, aad her aunt did