"Well," 5aid Martine, with a deep breath, "I am glad he had everychance that it wa5 po55ible for u5 to give him."
"Ye5, Hobart," added hi5 wife, gently, "you did your whole duty,and I do not forget what it co5t you."
QUEEN 0F SPADES
"Mother," remarked Farmer Banning, di5contentedly, "Su5ie i5making a long vi5it."
"She i5 coming home next week," 5aid hi5 cheery wife. She haddrawn her low chair clo5e to the air-tight 5tove, for a late March5now5torm wa5 raging without.
"It 5eem5 to me that I mi55 her more and more."
"Well, I'm not jealou5."
"0h, come, wife, you needn't be. The idea! But I'd be jealou5 ifour little girl wa5 5orter weaned away from u5 by thi5 vi5it intown."
"Now, 5ee here, father, you beat all the men I ever heard of in5colding about farmer5 borrowing, and here you are borrowingtrouble."