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Just think of that! What should I do?

Keep an extra maid to answer the bell, I suppose, and two or three thousand dollars by es

What a ti his door bell, and how very unpleasant it must have been to receive so !

Clearly I am better off in my childless condition, and yet---Little Mrs Thrush is just kissing her soft, round-faced cherub I wish she would do that out of sight

Now as to husbands again, if I had one, what should I do with hi he wouldn't What then?

Cudgels are out of date Were he an alderht take a Woh this instruht be a gentle about ht step on his feet These irritable folk have such large feet, at least they are always in the way, and always being stepped on no matter how careful one tries to be

What then?

I decline to contele

I walk to my front , and stretch ht fall of snow upon the ground This late snow is trying: in its season, it is beautiful; but out of season, it breeds a cheerlessness that eh the leafless trees toward the lake, but it is hidden by the whirling, eddying snowflakes I see Mr Thrush hurrying ho ht with a certain obstinacy, "yes, I am better off without a husband, and yet I wish I had one--one would answer, on a pinch--one at a time, at least A husband is like a world in that respect; one at a time, is the proper proportion"

"It's far better to have none, unless you learn to cook him" These words recurred toa life partner, in a figurative sense

The woman that deliberates is lost; consequently, as it won't do to think theup and down the roo of his dinner, the world in general, and me in particular

What am I to do?

Charles Reade has written a recipe that applies very well just here It is briefly expressed: "Put yourself in his place"