And to happen just when society--yes, my dear, the very best of your Bowling Green people were beginning to leave cards.

Another ball and we should have brought the best of them down." "Another ball, my dear ?" returned Chapman, with a sigh.

"A ball a year ought to satisfy any respectable family." Chapman was indeed becoming alarmed at his wife's extravagance and weakness for society.

Her worldliness he feared would bring him to grief ere long.

The last ball had entailed the expense of new carpets; and the young gentlemen had quite taken possession of the house, which they held until after daylight, and then went home in a very unsteady condition of the limbs.
To make the matter worse, Bowles had been very much demoralized ever since, and now demanded another horse or his discharge.