Now for papa." She let him go to the very door: and then a meek little timid voice said, in a scarce audible murmur, "Doctor!" Now when this meek murmur issued from a young lady who had, up to this period of the interview, been rather cold and cutting, the sagacious doctor smiled.

"My dear ?" said he, in a very gentle voice.
"Doctor! about your other patient!" "Well ?" "Is he as bad as I am?
For indeed, my dear friend, I feel--my food has no taste--life itself no savor.

I used to go singing, now I sit sighing.
Is he as bad as I am ?" "I'll tell you the truth; his malady is as strong as yours; but he has the great advantage of being a man; and, again, of being a man of brains.

He is a worker, and an inventor; and now, instead of succumbing tamely to his disorder, he is working double tides, and inventing with all his might, in order to remove an obstacle between him and one he loves with all his manly soul.

A contest so noble and so perpetual sustains and fortifies the mind.