HESI

Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

For ten seconds let us regard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other direction.

So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her, rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters.

Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.

Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

And then an ecstatic scream of joy; and then, alas! a quick feminine change to hysterical tears and wails, necessitating the immediate employment of all the comforting powers of the lord of the flat.

This dark assertion will be illuminated later on.

While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home.

A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks.

Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends—a mammoth task.

White fingers and nimble tore at the string and paper.

She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love.

For ten seconds let us regard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other direction.

In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.

And now, they were hers, but the tresses that should have adorned the coveted adornments were gone.

They were expensive combs, she knew, and her heart had simply craved and yearned over them without the least hope of possession.

Once she faltered for a minute and stood still while a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet.

With a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street.

It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her.

But she hugged them to her bosom, and at length she was able to look up with dim eyes and a smile and say: "My hair grows so fast, Jim!" rnrnAnd them Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried, "Oh, oh!"

It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation—as all good things should do.

In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.

Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two—and to be burdened with a family!

He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face.

And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house.

A furnished flat at $8 per week.

With that chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company.

A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks.

The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week.