It made me sad, in the midst of our happiness, to think how soon the current of his feelings would change, and I wished in my soul that I had not bought the stoves.

But, at last, dinner was announced, and I knew that the hour had come.

He ran upstairs to give a few touches to his toilet, when lo! the shining stoves and pipes caught his eyes.

He explored the upper apartments and came down the back stairs, glanced at the kitchen stove, then into the dining room, and stood confounded, for a moment, before the nickel-plated 'Morning Glory.' Then he exclaimed, 'Heavens and earth! Charlotte, what have you been doing ?' I remembered what you told me and said nothing, but looked steadily out of the window.

I summoned no tears, however, for I felt more like laughing than crying; he looked so ridiculous flying round spasmodically, like popcorn on a hot griddle, and talking as if making a stump speech on the corruptions of the Democrats.