Each new acquisition, as one article after another was completed and delivered into her possession, gave her fresh pleasure: and she deposited it in its proper place in her house with a feeling of great satisfaction and pride.
"Mary Erskine," said Albert one evening--for though she was married, and her name thus really changed, Albert himself, as well as every body else, went on calling her Mary Erskine just as before--"it is rather hard to make you wait so long for these conveniences, especially as there is no necessity for it.

We need not have paid for our land this three years.

I might have taken the money and built a handsome house, and furnished it for you at once." "And so have been in debt for the land," said Mary.
"Yes," said Albert.

"I could have paid off that debt by the profits of the farming.

I can lay up a hundred dollars a year, certainly." "No," said Mary Erskine.