But Deacon Jones knows better than anybody else the value of property here, and I am perfectly willing to give you the price he set on the place.

I had laid by this two thousand dollars towards my house; and I could not build such a house as this, to-day, for three thousand dollars.

But really, Mercy, you must look 'out for yourself better than this." "I don't know," replied Mercy, looking out of the window, with an earnest gaze, as if she were reading a writing a great way off,--"I don't know about that.

I doubt very much if looking out for one's self, as you call it, is the best way to provide for one's self." That very night Mr.Allen wrote to Stephen; in two weeks, the whole matter was settled, and Mercy and her mother had set out on their journey.

They carried with them but one small valise.