undings of my life. Upon two or three occasions lately she had reproached me for not being sufficiently lofty in my social views, and although the
I made no inquiries as to the precise nature of this injury, but waited for her
r modest pleasures, without exciting the envy of friends and acquaintances. Such a competence was mine; such pleasures were mine. Secure from storms and unnecessary worries--by which I mean worries self-inflicted by fidgety persons, or persons discontented with their lot--I should have been quite satisfied to remain all my life in our cozy ten-roomed house, which we had inhabited for twenty years, and in which we had been as comfortable as reasonable beings can expect to be in life. Not so my wife, the best of creatures in her way, but lately (as I subseq
particular to do
particular,
coming with me to s
The murd
houses!"
nothing of its impropriety--for a lady, unaccompanied, to wander through a number of
on end. It would not be prudent. But what necessity
w we must move; you know that it is impossibl
y n
And the house in
Maria. There is nothing w
rything the m
you sa
o sa
s any sense in him. I am a fairly sensible man, and experience has taught me some useful lesson
ll of inconvenie
long time finding
ago, but I have borne
egg, and requested her to name the in
d. "We want
I said, "and it
't fit
a that there was
be, Edward, I wish you would recognize tha
s the
talk as if we w
o me. Proceed with
nts, my
our w
ozy study, where yo
moke anywhere. Don't forget that I am fifty
is never too
the point
eping to it! I hav
in my study, instead of sitting and chatting together,
od servants," sh
do with the inconven
ally cook. They sleep in the attic, you kno
s. Go where you will, you hear the s
can see wha
A
dinner party we give we must have the dinner cooked out. Think what a trouble it will be,
ht is hear
ou are. I am not blaming yo
rate. Is your catalog
keep in it for the damp. Then there's the bath. Every time I turn the hot water tap I am frightened out
ne. "Give me two minutes to compos
ast, I emptied my breakfa
to move,"
ibility of our remaining w
we will not argue; I ben
ted. "Must not a woman have a m
red, Maria. Have you any
ot wish you to have the bother of it, so I took it all on myself. And here are the orders to view the houses
houses are the
ty-th
dder. "And you ha
ust be careful they don't get mixed
propose to go over the w
. With what I have and what I am promised I dare say it
and weeks," I s
how we hunted and hunted
y of buying a traveling caravan, and living in it. Well, Maria, I confess I don
You are the best man in the worl
y dear. When
ready in h
er into housekeeping for the first time. I could not but admire her courage. Her bag was stuffed with keys,