San Francisco will do, though it 's not what I should choose.

She must be taken entirely away from her care, and from everything that will remind her of it; and she must live quietly, where she will not have to make a continual effort to smile and talk to people three times a day.

Being agreeable, polite, and good-tempered for fifteen years, without a single lapse, will send anybody into a decline.

You 'll never go that way, my Polly! Now, pardon me, but how much ready money have you laid away ?" "Three hundred and twelve dollars." "Whew!" "It is a good deal," said Polly, with modest pride; "and it would have been more yet if we had not just painted the house." "'A good deal!' my poor lambkin! I hoped it was $1012, at least; but, however, you have the house, and that is as good as money.

The house must be rented, at once, furniture, boarders, and all, as it stands.
It ought to bring $85 or $95 a month, in these times, and you can manage on that, with the $312 as a reserve." "What if the tenant should give up the house as soon as we are fairly settled in San Francisco ?" asked Polly, with an absolutely new gleam of caution and business in her eye.
"Brava! Why do I attempt to advise such a capable little person?
Well, in the first place, there are such things as leases; and in the second place, if your tenant should move out, the agent must find you another in short order, and you will live, meanwhile, on the reserve fund.