I didn't know that you would take so much to the general enterprise, or else I should have mentioned the New York condition at once; but, of course, that puts an end to it." "Oh, of course," she assented, sadly.

"We COULDN'T go to New York." "No, I know that," he said; and with this a perverse desire to tempt her to the impossibility awoke in him, though he was really quite cold about the affair himself now.

"Fulkerson thought we could get a nice flat in New York for about what the interest and taxes came to here, and provisions are cheaper.

But I should rather not experiment at my time of life.

If I could have been caught younger, I might have been inured to New York, but I don't believe I could stand it now." "How I hate to have you talk that way, Basil! You are young enough to try anything--anywhere; but you know I don't like New York.