"I think it's a heap nicer without him, though dull enough at the best.

I wish we could go somewhere, some watering place I mean.

There's the Tifftons, just returned from New York, and I don't much believe they can afford it more than we, for I heard their place was mortgaged, or something.

Oh, bother, to be so poor," and the young lady gave a little angry jerk at the tags she was unbraiding.
"Whar's ole miss's ?" asked Claib, who had just returned from Versailles.
"Thar's a letter for you," and depositing it upon the bureau, he left the room.
"Whose writing is that ?" 'Lina said, catching it up and examining the postmark.

"Shall I open it ?" she called, and ere her mother could reply, she had broken the seal, and held in her hand the draft which made her the heiress of one thousand dollars.
Had the fabled godmother of Cinderella appeared to her suddenly, she would scarcely have been more bewildered.
"Mother," she screamed again, reading aloud the "'Pay to the order of Adaline Worthington,' etc.