'I am so glad,' he exclaimed; 'I am so glad!' And he knocked off his cap with his hand, not knowing what he was doing.

'We shall have but a poor house without you, Marie--a very poor house.

But it is as it ought to be.

I have felt for the last year or two, as you have sprung up to be such a woman among us, my dear, that there was only one place fit for such a one.

It is proper that you should be mistress wherever you are.