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counting room in fifteen minutesP"
"A pretty suggestion for medical man
Who. do you think, will employ you, sir7"
| You, madam, as you suggested, if your
reasonable and tasteful request is granted, pro-
vided am in a condition to attend TO you"
"We will not have any squash
| "We will have nothing. We will keep
solemn fast. 1t will be of service to his dys
tpepsia."
81 may ask him, then?"
| Sat your perilI"
Thank you. You shall see how nicely
will manage. We will haze no dish on his side
of the table; and will tell Patrick that, for that
day, will try not having the vegetables passed
round, but letting him take the plates to the
dishes, and himself help to whatever is wanted
which stands opposite TO Mr.. Flint; and you
and |, Of course, shall dispense the provisions
at our ends of the table,"
st will be too late for me. / shall not live
to see the second course. he will suck me
down in one of his long drawn sonorous gasps
over his soup; and when you see him choking
with the heel of one of my boots in his larYnx,
you'll be sorry for your brother-in.law perhaps,
if not for your brother
cha, ha, hal How absurd. He will not
sit opposite to you"
| He will draw all the smoke down the chin
ney then"
"He can sit with his back to the FIRE. We
won't have any SOUP"
"Then you will have fish; aud he' chop it
up with his steel knife, and eat apple.sauce
with it,"
Suppose he does, now. OF course We shall
know better this time than to look at him. Do
let him spoil his dinner, if he likes. What
does it signify to us?"
philanthropy, my dear girl Philanthropy"
:" de would spoil it just as much anywhere
else"
."He would not have so good dinner to
spoil," said the sophist, slyly shifting his
| ground. Executions must take place but
one would not therefore wish to hang an excel.
lent person, nor to witness his parting pangs."
"What tease you are! 1t is of no use for
me to talk to you it only makes you worse"
"Not usually. Try different subject"
81 will-only this must say first, dear
Edward, that l am very sorry to plague you,
but in sober earnest think that We ought to
be kind to the Flints for you know we never
exerted ourselves too much to make poor papa
happy; and now the only thing that we can do
| for him is to befriend the other members of his
| family"
After a supplementary frolic with Tommy,
Clara sent him safely home, rejoicing over the
story-book which she had given him, though
begging hard to take his horse, too. She had
been glad to have him come, and was now glad
again to have him 60 and it was with quite
new sense of enjoyment of her usual leisure
and freedom, that she welcomed her grown.up
friends DR.. and Mrs. Brodie, and had a merry,
| sociable evenings chat with them. They were
| 'o,J ~" nod united and clever elderl1
couple, who, after struggling together though q
youth of hard work, small means, and six chill
dren, had made their way to an easy compe
tence, while they were still fresh and vigorous
enough to enjoy it heartily and all the more
80 from its contrast with past privation and
anxiety, and from the economical habits, which
made it a fortune to them.
The Doctor was as witty as wise and his
stories of sayings and doings, which he had
seen and heard in the course of his practice
kept them much of the time in fits of laughter ;
but between them Clara found a chance to
make her intended Inquiries and he readily
and eagerly engaged to keep her supplied with
objects of charity. He mentioned to her at
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thriving mechanic, who, having lost his wife
and three daughters by a singular series of
fatalities, had been seized with incurable pa
ralysis on the burial-day of the last. His sa
vings from his past earnings supplied him With
what are commonly called the necessaries of
life; but driving gave great relief to the pain
which he suffered, as we'll as to the vacant
monotony of his creeping years and this be
could not afford himself. Clara determined
Immediately to give an order to the keeper of
livery-stable to send for him four times o
week, at her expense, suitable vehicle.-an
open one, as the Doctor advised, wher the
weather was fair and mild enough-with safe
and, if possible, companionable driver t. take
him out. 1t was not very much for her togive.
1t was so much for him to receive, that three
years after, on his death-bed, he spoke O it, al
most with his last breath, with tears of graft.
tude.
Edward" said she, that evening, as le re-
turned, after accompanying her visitors b the
door, how much money have to spend?"
81 usually draw three hundred dollars don't
you know7-for you, every quarter. VIII? Isn't
it enough? OF course, there's plenty hore, if
you want it. ana going to the bank to morrow.
How much will you have?"
"Thank you. believe have enogh now,
for the present. but I meant to ask vhat my
whole income was"
"Have you waited all this time to6nd that
out How exactly like you l Clara Clara
Thank Heaven, that it did not make yu an I'M
protected female"
"Indeed l do. 1 hope it never ill. But
my income
COL the same as mine. Twelve tousand
year, it was, when it was lett you, ou of which
you contribute three thousand FIVE hhdred dol
lars, as do, annually, for our ho9ehold ex.
penses. If you mean to turn fnAcier, and
want to know exactly how much it now, you
must let me send up Mr.. Crockett ad his books,
and exhibit your business talents ad practical
turn of mind in a conference withhim. He's
trustee, and trusty. Your principe must have
increased somewhat by accumulatpn, for you
have never spent more than half yqr interest
"Tm so glad /"