t take pattern by your sister � she s far more sensible and here you ve got two children to provide for and your husband s spent your i going to law and s like to spend his own too a boiled joint as you could make of for the kitchen mrs added in a tone of emphatic protest and a plain with a o sugar and no ud be far more becoming � with sister g in this humor there was a cheerful prospect for the day mrs never went the length of with her any more than a water fowl that puts out its leg in a manner can be said to quarrel with a boy who throws stones but this point of the dinner was a tender on thb one and not at all new so that could make the same answer she had often made before mr says he always have a good dinner for his friends while he can pay for it she said and he s a right to do as he likes in his own house sister well t leave your children enough out o my to keep em from ruin and you mustn t look to having any o mr s money for it s well if i don t go first � he comes of a long lived family and if he was to die and leave me well for my life he d tie the money up to go back to his own kin the sound of wheels while mrs was speaking was an interruption highly welcome to mrs who hastened out to receive sister � it must be sister because the sound was that of a four wheel mrs tossed her head and looked rather sour about the mouth at the thought of the four wheel she had a strong opinion on that subject sister was in tears when the one horse chaise stopped before mrs s door and it was apparently requisite that she should shed a few more before getting out for though her husband and mrs stood ready to support her she sat still and shook her head sadly as she looked through her tears at the vague distance why is the matter sister said mrs she was not an imaginative woman but it occurred to her that the large toilet glass in sister s best bedroom was possibly broken for the second time there was no reply but a further shake of the head as mrs slowly rose and got down from the chaise not without a glance at mr to see that he was guarding her handsome silk dress from injury mr was a small man with a high nose small twinkling eyes and thin lips in a suit of black and a white that seemed to hav jl been tied very tight on some higher principle than that of personal ease he bore about the same relation to his tall good looking wife with her sleeves abundant mantle and large be and be bonnet as a small fishing bears to a with all its sails spread it is a pathetic sight and a striking example of the introduced into the emotions by a high state of civilization � i the sight of a dressed female in grief from the sorrow of a to that of a woman in large sleeves with several on each arm an bonnet and delicate ribbon strings � what a long series of � in the enlightened child of civilization the abandon on the ment characteristic of grief is checked and varied in the manner so as to present an interesting problem to the mind if with a crushed heart and eyes half blinded by the mist of tears she were to walk with a too step through a door place she might crush her sleeves too and the deep consciousness of this possibility produces a com of forces by which she takes a line that just the post perceiving that the tears are hurrying fast she her strings and throws them languidly backward � a gesture even in the deepest gloom of the hope in future dry moments when cap strings will once more have a charm as the tears a little and with her head leaning backward at the angle that will not injure her bonnet she that terrible moment when grief which has made all things else a weariness has itself become weary she looks down at her and their with that pretty studied which would be gratifying to her mind if it were once more in a calm and healthy state mrs brushed each door post with great about the latitude of her shoulders at that period a woman was truly ridiculous to an instructed eye if she did not measure a yard and a half across the shoulders and having done that sent the muscles of her face in quest or fresh tears as she advanced into the parlor where mrs was seated weu sister you re what s the matter said mrs rather sharply as they shook hands mrs sat down lifting up her mantle carefully behind before she answered she s gone unconsciously using an impressive figure of it isn t the glass this time then thought mrs died the day before yesterday continued mrs an her legs was as thick as my body she added with deep sadness after a pause they d tapped her no end o times and the water � they say you might ha in it if you d liked well it s a mercy she s gone then she may be said mrs with the and emphasis of a mind naturally clear and decided but i can t think who you re talking of for my part but i know said mrs sighing and shaking her head and there isn t another such a in the parish i know as it s old mrs o the 