'Why don't you have handsomer ones?'

'Economy.'

'You cannot mean it.'

'Neverthelessit is true.'

'You, who have such loads of money? '

'To use, as I told you,' said Dane, smiling now. 'The engravings and photographs are both pleasure and education. I do not find either the one or the other in gilded stucco.'

'Well, have them carved, then.'

'Can't afford it, as I said.'

'But my dear Dane! are you going to regulate your whole household on such principles?'

Dane answered with the most matter-of-fact manner, that it was his intention.