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The rector, who reduced most wretchedness to ter bills and small deprivations found hi," he objected, rather feebly

Delight eyed him with the scorn of nineteen for fifty

"I wonder what you would do," she observed, "if ot new clothes, and never thought

a thought of her own, and just used you as a sort of walking

bank-account?"

"My dear, I really can not--"

"I'll tell you what you'd do," she persisted "You'd fall in love with

somebody else, probably Or else you'd just naturally dry up and be made

a bishop"

He was extremely shocked at that, and a little hurt It took her soain, and a very huy

But her words stuck in the rector's mind He made a note for a sermon,

with the text: "Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband

also, and he praiseth her"

He went quietly into the great stone building and sat down The organist

was practicing the Introit anthe quietly