Get a new silk gown, and return Mrs.Atherton's call at once, and take a card and turn down one corner or the other, I don't know which, but this girl of hers can tell you.

Pump her dry as a powder horn; find out what the quality do, and then do it, and not bother about the expense.

I am going in for a good time, and don't mean to work either.

I told Colvin this morning that I thought I ought to draw a salary of about four thousand a year, besides our living expenses, and though he looked at me pretty sharp over his spectacles he said nothing.

Arthur is worth half a million, if he is worth a cent.