Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?' 'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.

As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.

Yet it was very difficult to separate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.

He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him.

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!