. Complete works. With illus. by the author and introductory notes setting forth the history of the several works by Horace E. Scudder . t to Westminster. He dashedby Buttons, the T^age; he took no notice of my wonderingAvife at the drawing-room door; he rushed to the secondfloor, bursting open the school-room door, where Charlottewas teaching our dear third daughter to play In my Cot-tage near a Wood. Charlotte ! Charlotte ! he cried out. La, Philip! dont you see Miss Grigsby is giving uslessons ? said the children. But he Avould not listen to those wags, and still beckonedCharlotte to him. T
. Complete works. With illus. by the author and introductory notes setting forth the history of the several works by Horace E. Scudder . t to Westminster. He dashedby Buttons, the T^age; he took no notice of my wonderingAvife at the drawing-room door; he rushed to the secondfloor, bursting open the school-room door, where Charlottewas teaching our dear third daughter to play In my Cot-tage near a Wood. Charlotte ! Charlotte ! he cried out. La, Philip! dont you see Miss Grigsby is giving uslessons ? said the children. But he Avould not listen to those wags, and still beckonedCharlotte to him. That young Avoman rose up and followedhim out of the door, as, indeed, she would have followedhim out of the window ; and there, on the stairs, they readDr. Firmins letter, with their heads quite close together,you understand. • Two hundred a year more, said Philip, his heart throl)-bing so that he could hardly speak; and your fifty — andtwo hundred the Gazette — and — Oh, Philip! was all Charlotte could say, and then —There was a pretty groiip for the children to see, and for anartist to draw! CHAPTEK IX. WAYS AND F course any man of the world,who is possessed of decent pru-dence, will perceive that theidea of marrying on four hun-dred and fifty pounds a year, sosecured as was Master Philipsincome, was preposterous andabsurd. In the first place, youcant live on four hundred andfifty pounds a year, that is acertainty. Peojile do live on less, I believe. P)Ut a lifewithout a brougham, without a decent house, without claretfor dinner, and a footman to wait, can hardly be called exist-ence. Philips income might fail any day. He might notplease the American paper. He might quarrel with thePall Mall Gazette. And then what would remain to him?Only poor little Charlottes fifty pounds a year! SoPhilips most intimate male friend — a man of the world,and with a good deal of experience — argued. Of course Iwas not surprised that Philip did not choose to take myadvice;
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