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Ann Harriet Hobbs was getting cured of her youth. 'She was going backward,' as the French say of people when Time is running forward, and they themselves are being forwarded a little too rapidly by his Express. All the ladies said so of her; all the gentlemen said so; and, wor...
Ann Harriet Hobbs was getting cured of her youth. 'She was going backward,' as the French say of people when Time is running forward, and they themselves are being forwarded a l...
2. Chapter 2'There was music and mirth in the lighted saloon; The measure was merry--our hearts were in tune; While hand linked with hand in the graceful quadrille, Bright joy crowned the d...
3. Chapter 3'In wedlock a species of lottery lies, Where in blanks and in prizes we deal; But how comes it that you, such a capital prize, Should so long have remained in the wheel?'
4. Chapter 4Our hero starts once more with a new field before him--the field where all his hopes and aspirations have been centred since he first was capable of comprehending the shrewd adv...
5. Chapter 5When Sarah Burns, after Hiram's departure, sat down, quietly to think over the events of the past few days--for during the week he remained in the house she had no opportunity f...
6. Chapter 6Freed from Hiram's disagreeable presence, Sarah Burns, as soon as her visitors had left, sat down to _think_; and she experienced, as I have already remarked, a species of relie...