"I don't believe he appreciates his good fortune," says the wife. "Perhaps he has had too much."
CHAPTER X
ELECTED
Yes, this is distinctly happy--this night at home, in the chamber after the music, with Davy to sleep over here, too.
"There, Davy," urges Esther, "you have romped and romped. You have not slept a wink to-day. It is far too late for children to be up, David. I only took down the stove to-day, for fear we might need it."
But it is difficult to moderate the spirits of the boy. He is playing all sorts of pranks with his father. The little lungs come near the man's ear. There is a whistling sound.
The north wind has blown for two weeks. It is howling now outside the windows.
"Pshaw!" the man laughs, "it is that cut-throat wind!"
For orators dislike the north wind.
"Pshaw! Esther!" he repeats, "I mistook the moaning of the wind in the chimney." But he is pale at the thought.