If she requires anything of any man in it, she will command him and her orders shall be obeyed.

She has not ordered my attendance, but has kept her servant here all the evening to see her to her friend's house, and this should be sufficient notice to any gentleman that she does not want him." During the ten years we used the same editorial-room.

Mr.Riddle was often absent on the days I must be there, and always secured plenty of light by setting away the shutters when I entered.

He generally made it necessary for me to go to his house and settle accounts, and never found it convenient to offer his escort to any place unless accompanied by his wife.
The _Visiter_ was three years old when he turned one day, examined me critically, and exclaimed: "Why do you wear those hideous caps?
You seem to have good hair.

Mrs.
Riddle says she knows you have, and she and some ladies were wondering only yesterday, why you do make yourself such a fright." The offending cap was a net scarf tied under the chin, and I said, "You know I am subject to quinsy, and this cap protects my tonsils." He turned away with a sigh, and did not suspect that my tonsils had no such protection outside the office, where I must meet a great many gentlemen and make it apparent that what I wanted of them was votes! votes!! Votes for the women sold on the auction block, scourged for chastity, robbed of their children, and that admiration was no part of my object.
Any attempt to aid business by any feminine attraction was to my mind revolting in the extreme, and certain to bring final defeat.