In plain English, we may all be in a tenement house in a month, or I on safe ground and you the affianced wife of a rich man." "Well," said Stella, coldly, "you have given me facts enough.

It's a pity you couldn't have brought me something better from Wall Street after all these years." "What have you brought to me during these past years," he demanded, sternly, "but constant requests for money, and the necessity for incessant effort to meet new phases of extravagance?
You have not asked what was kind, merciful, and true, but what was the latest style.

Few days pass but that I am reminded of you by a bill for some frippery or other; but how often am I reminded of you by acts of filial thoughtfulness, by words of sympathy in my hard battle of life when I am present, or by genial letters when absent?
I have spent three hot days in the city seeking chiefly your interest, and a more mechanical, perfunctory thing never existed than your kiss of greeting to-night.

There was as much feeling in it as in the quarter that I handed to the stage-driver.

I have spent thousands on your education, but you don't sing for me, you don't read to me, you never think of soothing my overtaxed nerves by cheerful, hopeful talk.