I 'm all right now, thanks to--several things.

In fact, I 've acquired a kind of appetite for behaving myself now, and if the rascally debts were only out of the way, I should be the happiest fellow in the universe." "You cannot apply to your father, so there is only one thing to do,--that is, to earn the money." "But how, when I 'm in the class-room three fourths of the day ?" "I don't know," said Polly hopelessly.

"I can tell you what to do, but not how to do it; I 'm nothing but a miserable girl." "I must stay in college, and I must dig and make up for lost time; so most of my evenings will be occupied." "You must put all your 'musts' together," said Polly decisively, "and then build a bridge over them, or tunnel through them, or span them with an arch.

We 'll keep thinking about it, and I'm sure something will turn up; I 'm not discouraged a bit.

You see, Edgar," and Polly's face flushed with feeling as she drew patterns on the tablecloth with her tortoise-shell hairpin,--"you see, of course, the good fairies are not going to leave you in the lurch when you 've turned your back on the ugly temptations, and are doing your very best.