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'Oh,across the roo herself close to her mother's side on the sofa 'Mamma, say that you do not mean me'

'It concerns you as well as me and him I wish I were childless'

'Oh, ood to you? Do I not try to be a coer Carbury, who is a good man, and who can protect you You can, at any rate, find a home for yourself, and a friend for us You are not like Felix You do not get drunk and gamble,--because you are a woman But you are stiff-necked, and will not helphim?'

'Love! Have I been able to love? Do you see much of what you call love around you? Why should you not love hiood man,--soft-hearted, of a sweet nature, whose life would be one effort to make yours happy You think that Felix is very bad'

'I have never said so'

'But ask yourself whether you do not give aswhat you could do for us if you would But it never occurs to you to sacrifice even a fantasy for the advantage of others'

Hetta retired froain went upstairs she turned it all over in her ht that she should ht that she should ood to her faht round on which she trod,--was, she well knew, all that her mother had said And he was more than that Her mother had spoken of his soft heart, and his sweet nature But Hetta knew also that he was a e In such a condition as was hers noas the very friend whose advice she could have asked,-- had he not been the very lover as desirous ofher his wife Hetta felt that she could sacrifice iven, though she left herself penniless Her time, her inclinations, her very heart's treasure, and, as she thought, her life, she could give She could doorets for her ive herself into the arms of a man she did not love