If Only etc.

overlook the fact that our surroundings and circumstances and the hundred and one subtle and mysterious workings of the fate

arries a wife. He is impelled to it by considerations outside of himself; it affects not only

s of the idle and the idleness of the busy, but marriage is quite another affair-a grave matter, and not to be undertaken lightly,

world, without kith or kin, and might be fairly allowed to please himself, and pleasing himself in this case mea

ng over with childish merriment-no one could help liking her, he told himself, but it was something warmer than that. What makes the difference between liking and love? It is so little and yet so much. There was an air of refinement about her, too, which to his fancy seemed to protest against the vulgarities of her surroundings. He thought he could discern the stuff that meant an actress in her, and prophesied that she

, and her manner was charming, and her

nted to "Ma,"-a black satined and beaded type of the race. There was also a sister, whom, truth to tell, he objected to more than her maternal relative, for she

ht be true in a sense and yet might not mean the entire independence it impli

he thorns which hedged his dainty rose-bud round. She at least was all he c

was a lucky girl to get such an "elegant" husband; and Saidie wished him happiness in a voice like a corn-crake, and declared that

o her; acquiesced confusedly when he told her she must give up the music-hall stage, a

name on it, and M.D. in imposing letters, and invested in a telephone for the acc

s and tables seemed to cost a mint of money; and the young man sighed and hoped fervently that it would not be long before patients appeared, or he would be obliged to say No to his darling when she turned her appealing eyes up

St. Mark's his income was assured; but then as a married man he could no longe

e boards at the "Band Box," and Mrs. John Chetwynd was altogether so sweet and winsome in her simple white gown, that Sai

ssional attire, were of the party, the women a good deal worse than the men; and they all returned together to Holly Street, where a meal had been prepared in the front parlours, the landlady having generously placed them at the disposal of her lodgers for the occasion. There was a good deal of banter and side jokes were bandied about from one to another; which was galling to young C

ces of wedding cake, laughing and

then followed an amount of vulgar chaff and coarse pleasantry which caused the "happy man" to set his teeth hard and register a

g to take the young couple to the station was at the door, and in the bustle that ensued Jack lost sight of all annoyances and remembered only that he had married the girl he loved and that he w

which she could raise one leg while standing upon the other. "What a mean cha

aidie, turning up her nose disdainfu

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I'm not going to live with him. I would as lief go to Bible-class every day of the week. I'll bet my bottom dollar Bella'll see the mistake she's made before she's many weeks older. There's a chip of

air and laughed till the