The one yielded no return, and the sum put in the other was lost through the incompetency of his honest but inexperienced friend.

His wife brought him a small property, but at no time in his life was he possessed of more than a modest competency.

But he had never any discontent with his fortune nor any desire to be rich.
Mrs.Gallatin, who had always until her marriage lived in cities, was entirely unfit for frontier life.

In these days of railroads it is not easy to measure the isolation of their country home.

Pittsburgh was nearly five days' journey from Philadelphia, and the crossing of the Alleghanies took a day and a half more.