A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Second

, and flitted swiftly into the room, and fluttere

ed the furnace, but with this mild weather it seems too early. Mamma does keep it so hot!" She rushed about opening doors and shutting

aton. "I hope you're

ver knew such air. And to think of our not having snow yet! I should t

looked at her. "I-I live

k City!" sh

, "you remember Mr. Beaton's te

hester; or was it Syracuse? I al

New York ever since I came home from Paris," said Beaton, with

rward, with her smiling mask tight on

ch, too. I met

u know Mr.

osed again, "it was Mr. Beaton

sure. It was Mrs. Horn

t thank you enough for

Isn't he delightful?

ure you. The whole c

d lost through the girl's shining ease and steely sprightliness. She seemed to him so smooth and hard, wi

. Do I look very much wasted away?" She looked him full in

low sadness; "I never s

recognition of his doleful tun

h

too hard, and probably it's that that's saved my life-that and the h

ch a pretty house? You must see both our parlors." She jumped up, and her mother foll

ows that gave upon a glazed veranda stretching across the end of the room. "Just think of this in New

lanced up at the bird-cage hanging fro

d Gypsum! Well, he sha'n't be disturbed. Yes, it's Gyp's delight, and Colonel Woodburn likes to write here in the morning. T

as obvious i

k you'd want to paint Miss Woodburn. Don't you think her coloring is delicious? And such a quaint kind of eighteenth-century type of beauty! But she'

pensiveness passed into gloom, and was degenerating into sulky resentment when he went away, after several failures to get back to the old ground he had held in relation to Alma. He r

r mother, when the do

o let him suppose we were piqued at his not coming? Did you suppose I was going to let hi

er her. She merely said, "I should

thout him; perhaps we can live

He was quite stupefied. I could see th

to make anything

believed you had forgo

le to say

think it was qu

e. Miss Woodburn said you were free

there won't be any next time, I'

sleep at last, not because he forgot them, but because he forgave them. He was able to say to himself that he had been justly cut off from kindness which he knew how to value in losing it. He did not expect ever to right himself i