Very much depends upon it, as you have heard.

All I can say is, keep your head, keep your feet, and keep your heart!" The two older men both turned now, and smiled at me in a manner not wholly to my liking.

Neither was this errand to my liking.
It was true, I was hardly arrived home after many months in the West; but I had certain plans of my own for that very night, and although as yet I had made no definite engagement with my fiancee, Miss Elisabeth Churchill, of Elmhurst Farm, for meeting her at the great ball this night, such certainly was my desire and my intention.

Why, I had scarce seen Elisabeth twice in the last year.
"How now, Nick, my son ?" began my chief.

"Have staff and scrip been your portion so long that you are wholly wedded to them?
Come, I think the night might promise you something of interest.