Five hundred dollars a year is but a meagre sum.

What does it procure for us?
Only these two rooms and the commonest necessaries of life.

We cannot even afford the constant service of a domestic." "Why, Edward! what has come over you?
Have I complained ?" "No, dear, no.

But think you I have no ambition to see my wife take a higher place than this ?" "Ambition! Do not again use that word," said Edith, very earnestly.
"What has love to do with ambition?
What have we to do with the world and its higher places?
Will a more elegant home secure for us a purer joy than we have known and still know in this our Eden?
Oh, my husband! do not let such thoughts come into your mind.

Let us be content with what God in his wisdom provides, assured that it is best for us.