If anything should happen that you should be taken away suddenly, think what would be our fate.

Heirs would spring up from somewhere, and we might be sold and separated for ever.

Respecting myself I might be indifferent, but regarding the children I cannot feel so." "Tut, tut, Em! don't talk so gloomily.

Do you know of any one, now, who has been hired to put me to death ?" said he, smiling.
"Don't talk so, dear; remember, 'In the midst of life we are in death.' It was only this morning I learned that Celeste--you remember Celeste, don't you ?--I cannot recall her last name." "No, dear, I really can't say that I do remember whom you refer to." "I can bring her to your recollection, I think," continued she.

"One afternoon last fall we were riding together on the Augusta-road, when you stopped to admire a very neat cottage, before the door of which two pretty children were playing." "Oh, yes, I remember something about it--I admired the children so excessively that you became quite jealous." "I don't remember that part of it," she continued.