Make a will and leave her a house or two and some stocks, and other little financial conveniences, to take away her necessity for keeping school .-- I wonder what nice young man's feet would be in my French slippers before six months were over! Well, what then?
If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world, if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could by any possibility marry.
-- It is odd enough to read over what I have just been writing .-- It is the merest fancy that ever was in the world.

I shall never be married.

She will; and if she is as pleasant as she has been so far, I will give her a silver tea-set, and go and take tea with her and her husband, sometimes.

No coffee, I hope, though,--it depresses me sadly.

I feel very miserably;--they must have been grinding it at home .-- Another morning walk will be good for me, and I don't doubt the schoolmistress will be glad of a little fresh air before school.
-- The throbbing flushes of the poetical intermittent have been coming over me from time to time of late.