I do believe thee wouldn't have so readily allowed me to begin the study of medicine, if it hadn't had the novelty of an experiment to thee." "And is thee satisfied with it ?" "If thee means, if I have had enough of it, no.

I just begin to see what I can do in it, and what a noble profession it is for a woman.

Would thee have me sit here like a bird on a bough and wait for somebody to come and put me in a cage ?" Mr.Bolton was not sorry to divert the talk from his own affairs, and he did not think it worth while to tell his family of a performance that very day which was entirely characteristic of him.
Ruth might well say that she felt as if she were living in a house of cards, although the Bolton household had no idea of the number of perils that hovered over them, any more than thousands of families in America have of the business risks and contingences upon which their prosperity and luxury hang.
A sudden call upon Mr.Bolton for a large sum of money, which must be forthcoming at once, had found him in the midst of a dozen ventures, from no one of which a dollar could be realized.

It was in vain that he applied to his business acquaintances and friends; it was a period of sudden panic and no money.

"A hundred thousand! Mr.Bolton," said Plumly.