I can't think of any more fascinating way of earning one's living.

And I know I could do it.

Why don't you make the 'Herald' a daily ?" To hear her speak of "earning one's living" was too much for him.
She gave the impression of riches, not only for the fine texture and fashioning of her garments, but one felt that luxuries had wrapped her from her birth.

He had not had much time to wonder what she did in Plattville; it had occurred to him that it was a little odd that she could plan to spend any extent of time there, even if she had liked Minnie Briscoe at school.

He felt that she must have been sheltered and petted and waited on all her life; one could not help yearning to wait on her.
He answered inarticulately, "Oh, some day," in reply to her question, and then burst into outright laughter.
"I might have known you wouldn't take me seriously," she said with no indignation, only a sad wistfulness.