known him it is said that a broken heart is a most valuable possession for a young man perhaps it was so to the rest of the dragged wearily for him but he worked like fury he would succeed he would rise he would show mrs who he was mrs having reached home began at once to lead her daughter back to what she esteemed a way of thinking than she had fallen into this opportunity came in the shape of a college commencement with a consequent boat race and all the that this cuts the knot mrs was in her way devoted to her daughter and had a definite and what she deemed an exalted ambition for her this meant that she be the best dressed girl in society be a and finally should make the most brilliant marriage of her to wit the marriage she had dreamed at times of a marriage that make her friends wild with of a title a high title had beauty style wealth and vivacity she would grace a and mamma would be madam the s mother but mamma encountered an unexpected obstacle when mrs building her air castles casually let fall her idea of a title for there was a sudden and unexpected storm from an for quarter usually in his wife s hands had two or three prejudices that were principles with him as to these he was rock his daughter was his idol for her from the time she had opened her blue eyes on him and at him vaguely he had toiled and until his hair had turned from brown to gray and then had disappeared from his round strongly set head for the love he bore her he had served longer than jacob served for and the time had not appeared long the suggestion that the money he had for from youth to age should go to some foreigner to pay his nearly threw him into a his ancestors had been driven from home to starve in the wilderness by such creatures before any d� d foreign should have a dollar of his money he would a lunatic asylum with it so mrs refrained from pressing this subject any further at this time and built her hopes on securing the next most advantageous alliance � a wealthy one she preferred to any of the other young men for he was not only rich but the were an old and established house and mrs was one of the old of the state whose word was law above that of even the of the new leaders to secure would be almost as good as a title an intimacy was cultivated with dear mrs and the dear boy was often brought to the house he and did not take to each other in the way mrs had hoped they simply became the best of friends and mrs had the mortification of seeing a tall and of s capture while appeared totally indifferent to him what made it harder to bear was that mrs s mother a widow with barely enough to live on was quietly walking off with the prize which mrs and a number of other mothers were striving to secure and made no more of it than if it had been her right it all came of her family connections that was the way with those old families they were so exclusive and so proud they held themselves superior to every one else and appeared to despise wealth mrs did not believe mrs really did despise wealth but she admitted that she made a very good show of doing it mrs her failure with was fain to accept in his place who though certainly not s equal in some respects was his superior in others to be sure was said to be a somewhat reckless young fellow and mr did not fancy him but mrs argued boys will be boys and you know mr you have told me you were none too good yourself on this growled that a man was a fool ever to tell his wife anything of the kind and that at least he never was in that young s class all of which mrs put aside and sacrificed herself to achieve success for her daughter and compel her to forget the little episode of the young southern with his tragic air ah the dreams of the how silly they are golden clouds at the top and just as they are reached mrs cuts the knot some little jack comes along and down the and all so mrs dreamed and a trifle anxious over s persistent reference to the charms of spring woods and a southern climate after a week or two of driving down town and eager choosing of hats and fitting of dresses started off with the girl on the of mr a wealthy dignified and cultivated friend of her husband s he had always been fond of and now got up a for her to see the boat race had thought that the time when he should leave the region where he had been so long would be the happiest hour of his life yet when the day came he was conscious of a strange at his heart these people whom he was leaving and for whom he had in his heart an opinion very like contempt on account of their ignorance and appeared to him a wholly different folk there was barely one of them but had been kind to him hard they might appear and petty but they lived close together and break through the crust one was sure to find a warm heart and often a soft one he began to understand dr s speech i have lived in several kinds of society and i like the simplest best one can get nearer to men here i do not ask gratitude i get affection had given notice that the school 