The Upas Tree: A Christmas Story for all the Year

thing was forgotten. Ronnie's outfit was managed with as little trouble to himself as possible. They dealt together, in a gay morning at the Stores, with all

st in the undertaking, that Ronnie alm

anged routes and b

had to be written

out her c

must pay it out of my own earnin

se how much the new building and necessary rep

balance at the

the remot

on your counterfoil? Then at any moment you can add up

oils are blank! I forget to fill them in. You can't write books, and also keep accounts. If you

s and spendings, excepting when you suddenly remark at breakfast: 'Hullo! Here's a useful little cheque for a thousand'-in much the same ton

well spend it, and have a good time. If there were kiddies to leave it to, it would be different. I had so long of being impecunious, that I

usly. The fact was: he took himself so seriously, that he was obliged to compensate by taking everything and everybody else rather lightly. No doubt this arrangement of relative values, made for success. Ronnie's succ

d let her, on the pennies; and herself ministered to the idea that all

w, at a personal cost known