as he had not been put to the expense of sending angel np to cambridge he had felt it his to set by a sum of money every year towards the purchase or lease of land for him some day that he might not feel himself as far as worldly wealth goes continued his father you will no doubt stand far to your brothers in a few years this old mr s part led angel ard to the other and dearer subject he observed to lis father that he was then six and twenty and that when v should start in the farming business he would require s in back of his head to see to all matters � some be necessary to the domestic labors of his establishment whilst he was would it not be well therefore for him to his father seemed to think this idea not unreasonable md then put the question what kind of wife do u think would be best for me as a hard working a truly christian woman who will be a help and a comfort to you in out and your in beyond that it really matters httle such an one can be found indeed my minded friend and neighbor or chant � bat ought she not to be able to milk cows � good butter make know how to � t and and rear chickens to direct a field of in an and the oi i te s of the tes a s wife yes it be d mr e the elder liad plainly never though of these before i wiu going to add that for a ui e and will not o more to your true advantage and not i your mother s mind and my own than friend men whom yon to show a certain interest in it is t that my neighbor chant s daughter has lately caught i i the fashion of tlie younger round about ns for de the communion table � altar as i was shocked i hear her call it one day � with flowers and other stuff o i festival occasions but her father who is quite as to aa i says that can cured it is mere girlish outbreak which i am sure will not be i yes yes mercy is good and i know but father don t you think that a y woman and virtuous as chant but one who in of tl lady s accomplishments the of farm life as well as a himself would u better t his father persisted in that a i of a farmer s wife s duties came second to a v of and tlie impulsive angel wishing ta li i bis father s feelings and to advance the cause of i at the same time gi he said tliat i providence had in his way a woman who p to be the of an and was decidedly of a serious turn of mind he v not say whether or not had attached herself to sound low school of his father but she i probably bo open to c� on that point she m church of simple faith d p intelligent graceful to a degree ns a i and in personal appearance is she of a family such os you would core to many ii � the lady in short t asked his mother who had softly into the study during the � she is not what in common is called a lady said angel for she is a s daughter as i am to say but she is a lady nevertheless � in feeling and nature mercy chant is of a very good family � what s the advantage of that mother said quickly how is family to avail the wife of a man who has to rough it as i have and shall have to do j mercy is and have their charm returned his mother looking al him through her silver spectacles as to external what will be the use of them in the life i am going to lead f � while as to her reading i can take that in hand she ll be apt pupil enough as you say if you knew her she s of � poetry if i may use the she what paper poets only write and she is an christian i am sure perhaps of the very tribe and species you desire to o angel you are mocking mother i beg pardon but as she really does attend almost every sunday morning and is a good christian girl i am sure you will any social � for the sake of tliat quality and feel that i may do sm choose her angel almost unconsciously on that rather in his be � � r which never dreaming that it might stand in h good stead he had been prone to b ip ht when ol it practised by her and the other less l l of than of it� obvious � in lives essentially ij their sad doubts as to whether their son had right to the title he claimed for the unknown j woman mr and mrs began to feel it as an em op the d not to be that she at least was in her views especially as the of the have arisen by chance or l for i would have made a of his cl they said finally that it was better not to act in a but that they would not object to see her angel therefore refrained from more now he felt that single minded and his were there yet existed certain ut � of theirs as middle class people which would � some tact to overcome for at i to do as he chose and though their r iu could make no practical difference to their ii � in the probability of her h far away from li 