Pray God that the wild note in it was not that of incipient insanity! "How good of you to give up making your great speech to-night, just to see how I have borne this last outrage! You do see, don't you ?" Here she drew her form to its full height.

"My husband believes in me, and it gives me courage to face the whole world.

Ah! is that Mr.Steele I see below there?
Pardon me, Mr.
Steele, if I show surprise.

We heard a false report of your illness this afternoon.

Henry, hadn't Mr.Steele better come up-stairs?
I presume you are here to talk over this last dreadful paragraph with me." "It is not necessary for Mr.Steele to join us if you do not wish him to," I heard the mayor whisper in his wife's ear.
"Oh, I do not mind," she returned with an indifference whose reality I probably gauged more accurately than he did.
"That is good." And he called Mr.Steele up.