You are bearing all the brunt of other people's faults and blunders." "But, Edgar, everything is so mixed: Mrs.Chadwick's year of lease is n't over; I suppose she cannot be turned out by main force, and if we should ask her to leave the house it might go unrented for a month or two, and the loss of that money might be as much as the loss of ten or fifteen dollars a month for the rest of the year.

I could complain of her to Dr.George, but there again I am in trouble.

If he knew that we are in difficulties, he would offer to lend us money in an instant, and that would make mamma ill, I am sure; for we are under all sorts of obligations to him now, for kindnesses that can never be repaid.

Then, too, he advised us not to let Mrs.Chadwick have the house.

He said that she had n't energy enough to succeed; but mamma was so sorry for her, and so determined to give her a chance, that she persisted in letting her have it.