The Romance and Tragedy

knew that if my monthly earnings were insufficient to pay my expenses, I s

ort of mine to have matters there pleasant and comf

t I did not know the magnif

smiles, and as soon as dinner was over, in our own room, with my arms

uraged me, always asserting that everything would come

h of November ou

ight I personally could swear to, and what sweet mu

tted to enter the room, an

, was the same sweet smile and an expression of devotion and love eternal. I looked at the boy, the new r

heir place in history, but the heroism of a woman in ordinary life, in tri

ur mothers!

r normal state of health and th

hard winter, and with the burden of the household on my shoulders had only just succeeded, by the utmost p

friend, the son of a man of some means, approached me on the subject of

ling to buy him an interest in my business, I might get efficient aid to my efforts and at the same time get a cash surplus to relieve my mind of financial wo

ider the matter was the desire of my

had our boy we felt anxious to set up a modest little establishment of our o

oon as his son Thomas arrived from Europe I was to take him into partners

again came down and a new one we

ank my mind was again at ease and we

a few blocks from my mother's, for the summer at a very low rent.

atisfied to board. We were fortunate in getting a good maid, the boy kept well, we had a cool s

r expenditures, but we lived wel

vely a three-story and basement house, one of a new row in

nts belonged to us gave us a sense of proprietorship th

the furnishings and felt very happy in

ran smoothly, and although we already began to talk of the day when we should ow

rough the usual category of children's diseases, had I been really ill. I always had suffered to some extent with neuralgic headaches, inher

sing and petting of my wife that the pain brought its own recompense

k recurring at shorter intervals and each time seemingly more severe. I stood it throu