He said his wife thought it was all right; that his girl had married a smart young fellow who was a clerk in a bank; but that if he had a hundred other children he'd never teach them any more than to read, write, and figure.

And to think that her son should be the Adonis dancing with my cousin Everett Wentworth's daughter-in-law! Why, my Aunt Wentworth would rise from her grave if she knew it!" "Well, times have changed," said Keith, laughing.

"You see they are as good as anybody now." "Not as good as anybody--you mean as rich as anybody." "That amounts to about the same thing here, doesn't it ?" "I believe it does, here," said the old lady, with a sniff.

"Well," she said after a pause, "I think I will go back and tell Matilda what I have seen.

And if you are wise you will come with me, too.