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guess she saw he was bound not to take no for an answa." "I don't know as I should like it very much," his wife relucted. "Clem's doin' very well, as it is. She no need to marry again." "Oh, I guess it a'n't that altogetha. He's a good man." Claxon mused a moment upon the figures which had begun to advance again, with the little one between them, and then gave way in a burst of paternal pride, "And I don't know as I should blame him so very much for wantin' Clem. She always did want to be of moa use--But I guess she likes him too." PG EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: All in all to each other Chained to the restless pursuit of an ideal not his own Composed her features and her ideas to receive her visitor Didn't reason about their beliefs, but only argued Dull, cold self-absorption Everything seems to go Gift of waiting for things to happen Going on of things had long ceased to bring pleasure He a'n't a do-nothin'; he's a do-everything He's so resting Hopeful apathy in his face I'm moa used to havin' the things brought to me Inexhaustible flow of statement, conjecture and misgiving It's the best that he doesn't seem prepared for Kept her talking vacuities when her heart was full Led a life of public seclusion Life alone is credible to the young Luxury of helplessness Morbid egotism Motives lie nearer the surface than most people commonly pretend New England necessity of blaming some one No object in life except to deprive it of all object One time where one may choose safest what one likes best Only man I ever saw who would know how to break the fall Perverse reluctance to find out where they were Provisional reprehension of possible shiftlessness Real artistocracy is above social prejudice Scant sleep of an elderly man Seldom talked, but there came times when he would'nt even listen Singleness of a nature that was all pose Submitted, as people always do with the trials of others Sunny gayety of self-forgetfulness Thrown mainly upon the compassion of the chambermaids Tone was a snuffle expressive of deep-seated affliction Unaware that she was a selfish or foolish person Under a fire of conjecture and asseveration Understood when I've said something that doesn't mean anything We change whether we ought, or not Weak in his double letters When she's really s
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