"Well," said Martine, with a deep breath, "I am glad he had every chance that it was possible for us to give him."
"Yes, Hobart," added his wife, gently, "you did your whole duty, and I do not forget what it cost you."
QUEEN OF SPADES
"Mother," remarked Farmer Banning, discontentedly, "Susie is making a long visit."
"She is coming home next week," said his cheery wife. She had drawn her low chair close to the air-tight stove, for a late March snowstorm was raging without.
"It seems to me that I miss her more and more."
"Well, I'm not jealous."
"Oh, come, wife, you needn't be. The idea! But I'd be jealous if our little girl was sorter weaned away from us by this visit in town."
"Now, see here, father, you beat all the men I ever heard of in scolding about farmers borrowing, and here you are borrowing trouble."
"Well, I hope I won't have to pay soon. But I've been thinking that the old farmhouse may look small and appear lonely after her gay winter. When she is away, it's too big for me, and a suspicion lonely for us both. I've seen that you've missed her more than I have."