I am sure it would kill me--at least I should faint; I feel as if I should faint now!" "Pray don't faint, pay dear," interrupted Chapman, submissively, as she handed him a letter she had received that day from Mr.Romer.And as she did so, she got up and paced the room in a state of great agitation.
"Never faint, my dear," resumed Chapman, "until you know what you are fainting for.

There is nothing to be made by fainting or borrowing trouble." This conversation took place in the parlor one evening about three weeks after the ball.

Chapman read and reread the letter, and then remained silent for several minutes.

"Very strange, if true, my dear.
But there may be a personal difficulty at the bottom of it, and the young man has taken this method of damaging Mr.Gusher's character." Mr.Romer presented his compliments to Mrs.Chapman, and, seeing the intimacy there was between her family and a person calling himself Philo Gusher, begged to inform her that the name of that individual was Louis Pinto, a notorious and well-known impostor, who had fled from Havana, where he had been several times imprisoned, to escape punishment for his crimes.
"Anything but that, my dear husband.

I am sure my pride would never survive it.