In fact, I didn't mention _anything_ to Miss Hinsdale.

What have I done?
The young man is making his living by his work--and my living, too, for that matter.

It only seems to me that his tariff editorials are rather humorous." She laughed suddenly--ringingly.

"Of course they are! How should I know?
Immensely humorous! And the good creature knows nothing beyond smuggling and the custom-house and chalk marks?
Why, even _I_--ha, ha, ha!--even _I_--should have known better than that.

What a little fool your enterprising idiot must be!--with his work-baskets and currant jelly and his trying to make the 'Herald' a daily!--It will be a ludicrous failure, of course.