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ter and delight. Bert's share was perhaps the easier, for although he manfully walked to his office, polished his own shoes, and ate a

genuine calamity to her, She walked to cheap markets, and endured the casual scorn of cheap clerks. She ironed Bert's ties and pressed his trousers, sav

e meant it, that he had never lived so well in his life, and certainly the walls of the little apartment in the "George Eliot" were packed with joy. When their microscopic accounts balanced at the end of the week, they celebrated with a table-d'hote dinner down town-dinners from which they wa

three dinners, and Nancy displayed her pretty table furnishings to "the girls," and gave them the secret of her iced tea. She told her husband that they got along because he was "so wonderful"; she felt

radleys down to their Staten Island home for a week-end. "And think of the pure gain of not buying a thing for three days!" exulted Nancy, thereby convulsing her lord. She brought back late corn, two jars of Mrs. Pearsall's pre

Bert got a theatre pass, sometimes old friends or kinspeople came to town, and Bert and Nancy went to one of the big hotels

t her more than twenty-five dollars! Doesn't that seem wicked, Bert? And all that delicious chicken that we hardly touched-dear me, what fun I could have with twenty-five dollars! There are so many things I'd like to

ing face, and he would come to put an arm

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each other, and who have to make sacrifices for each other! I mean that. I mean that I don't think riches, or travel, or great gifts and achievements bring a greater happiness than ours. I think a king, dying," smiled Nancy, trying not to be too se

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s if perhaps we had been a little too brave. When your cousins, and mine, ask us how we do it, and m

ever failed her. He put his arm about her

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had seen quite sunny and clean flats for as little as fourteen and sixteen dollars a month. Her housekeeping abilities awakened to the demand. Wh

eminded her hearteningly. She was immediately reassu