the past year and a half so there was no undue on the part of the owner and of the edifice such a residence could not be built in a day any more than the city of rome it was no common affair to young miss be run up in a single season on the finest avenue in the first city of the land it was destined to all of its neighbors and leave a liberal distance between itself and any likely to come after that meant a of half the world for materials a securing of the best workmen in every and above all no sign of haste anywhere it required ten months to bring the building to the height of the first floor to the amazement of the neighborhood which was not prepared for the extended to those parts of the work that were soon to be hidden from sight then the rose slowly that the fine cut stone might have an opportunity to settle the of an inch that it needed instead of taking that liberty when it could drag with it the wood and plaster of the interior and when the edifice was to the inexperienced eye of the nearly done there were eighteen months still to wait before the could be allowed to enter and garb this naked creature it was not finished yet by any means it was only approaching completion charles came to see it often the very grandeur of this building which had pleased the s son greatly as he looked over the plans with his father distressed him as it came into collision with the new ideas that filled his mind had any single family a right to to themselves all that treasure of stone and wood and metal i should not such an edifice be devoted to the general welfare instead of the selfish interests of three matter upon him and one day he was in the new house with his father and million sister he courage to say what he had kept to himself so long well charles have you any suggestions or to make asked the as he took his son by the arm and walked to the street end of the unfinished drawing room not about the beauty of the design or the excellence of the work father responded charles with a great effort but it seems to me sometimes that all this magnificence should be devoted to a wider use than that of one little group of people the laughed there is no reason why it should not serve for three groups he answered you and may will get married one of these days and then with your wife and may s husband and the babies that will follow and their nurses the place will come nearer i trust to your conception of what it is fit for the son did not join in the humor nor did his face its earnest expression it isn t that he answered respectfully it would be even then a monument to our individual selfishness oh father he burst out in a despairing tone there is so much that i want to say to you and the subject is so deep that i feel unequal to it there is a book which if you would only read the name is looking backward interrupted the quietly charles stared at his father with the utmost astonishment you have not read it he gasped yes i have smiled the i read everything that the attention of i miss will admit also that i consider it one of the of the theory and add that i differ from the author in but one important particular charles looked the inquiry he did not put into words and the father continued after a slight pause that of for a few seconds the waited in the apparent expectation that his son would have a reply ready but charles did not speak he thought that perhaps this very wise man might after all be able to overthrow the doctrines which had impressed him so deeply this wave that and flows like those of the tide continued the other has given great apprehension to many people of comfortable fortunes but it gives none to me whenever the people spoken of in the wish a decided change in the conditions of government they have the means within their grasp to bring it about up to date they have shown only movements in this direction and even these have been confined to a very small of the persons most deeply interested this man is the least objectionable to me of the whole let he at least to give us a shelter after taking the ground from under our feet and the roof from over our heads charles felt more than ever how little fitted he was to cope with the experience and wisdom of his father but he did not expect to do much more than get an opening at this time for a future discussion and he was pleased to find that the kindness of manner and which ht had never dollars known to vary continued in the presence of a subject he had feared would be distasteful i am glad to hear you speak so kindly father he replied you have always given me such full liberty that i dread doing anything to offend you i want you to know however that i am much impressed by mr s theories and by the gentleman himself for i have been to boston on purpose to meet him and have returned more convinced than before that he is in the right the laughed again this time with more than before it is rather late my boy said he for you and me to discuss the question you seem determined in your supreme to raise i have but one rule for you and your sister that rule is into the brief sentence 