So, in order to enlighten me, he would take down his books and show me the inexorable statutes.

The students, observing my interest, would amuse themselves by reading to me all the worst laws they could find, over which I would laugh and cry by turns.

One Christmas morning I went into the office to show them, among other of my presents, a new coral necklace and bracelets.

They all admired the jewelry and then began to tease me with hypothetical cases of future ownership.

"Now," said Henry Bayard, "if in due time you should be my wife, those ornaments would be mine; I could take them and lock them up, and you could never wear them except with my permission.