It was so good to be young and strong and feel that your muscle was equal to the strain put upon it, and that the old world looked about all right to him that morning.

It is going to be such a disappointment to him not to be able to send Mary back to school." "Poor little Mary!" said Phil.

"All this is nearly going to kill her.
She is so completely wrapped up in Jack, I am afraid that it will make her bitter." "Isn't it strange ?" asked Betty.

"I was wondering about that while we were out at the Inn this evening.

She was in such high spirits, that I thought of that line from Moore: "'The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touched by the thorns,' and thought if she should take sorrow as intensely as she does her pleasures, any great grief would overwhelm her." They had been discussing the situation for more than an hour, when the door from the bedroom opened, and Mary came out.