Clean curtains are just put up throughout the house, and I'll have no horrid pipes to blacken them." "I'll buy you some new curtains, Cornelia, if their pipes spoil these," he quietly replied.

"And now, Cornelia, I really must beg you to leave me." "When I have come to the bottom of this affair with Barbara Hare," resolutely returned Miss Corny, dropping the point of the contest as to the pipes.

"You are very clever, Archie, but you can't do me.

I asked Barbara what she came here for; business for mamma, touching money matters, was her reply.

I ask you: to hear your opinion about the scrape the bench have got into, is yours.