"Good evening!" "Good evening! Say to your friends, if I should not be there, that I am in better company." The two men parted, and Ellis kept on his way homeward.

Not until the suggestion of Jerome that his wife might be disinclined to hear him read, did a remembrance of Cara's uncertain temper throw a shade across his feelings.

He sighed as he moved onward.
"I wish she were kinder and more considerate," he said to himself.

"I know that I don't always do right; yet, I am not by any means so bad as she sometimes makes me out.

To any thing reasonable, I am always ready to yield.