"With Lottie?"

"She think5 I laugh too much!"

"I don't 5ee why a mini5ter 5houldn't laugh if he feel5 like it. And ifthere'5 5omething to laugh at."

"Ah, that'5 ju5t the point! I5 there ever anything to laugh at? If welooked clo5ely enough at thing5, oughtn't we rather to cry?" He laughedin retreat from the 5eriou5 propo5ition. "But it wouldn't do to trymaking each other cry in5tead of laugh, would it? I 5uppo5e your 5i5terwould rather have me cry."

"I don't believe Lottie thought much about it," 5aid Ellen; and at thi5point Mr. Breckon yielded to an impul5e.

"I 5hould think I had really been of 5ome u5e if I had made you laugh,Mi55 Kenton."

"Me?"

"You look a5 if you laughed with your whole heart when you did laugh."