Do, Hugh, be good for once." "Ad, I can't," and Hugh spoke sorrowfully, for a kind word from 'Lina always touched his weaker side.

"I would if I could, but honestly I've only twenty-five dollars in the world, and I've thought of a new coat.

I don't like to look so shabby.

It hurts me worse than it does you," and Hugh's voice trembled as he spoke.
Any but a heart of stone would have yielded at once, but 'Lina was too supremely selfish.

Hugh had twenty-five dollars.