But I thought you preferred this to the city ?" "I thought I would like it, but I don't.

It's too lonesome." I did not persuade her to stay.

That error I had once or twice, ere this, fallen into, and learned to avoid it in future.

So she went back to the city, and I was left with but a single girl.

Three days only elapsed before this one announced her intended departure.
"But you will stay," said I, "until I can get some one in your place." "My week will be up on Saturday," was replied.