"You must know, Cassandra, that his heart is with his horses and his flowers.

He is more interested in them than he is in his children." She looked vexed when she said this; but I took hold of the edge of her finely embroidered cape, and asked her how much it cost.

She laughed, and said, "Fifty dollars; but you see how many lapels it has.
I have still a handsomer one that was seventy-five." "Are they a part of the six thousand a year, Alice ?" "Of course; but Charles wishes me to dress, and never stints me in money; and, after all, I like for him to spend his money in his own way.

It vexes me sometimes, he buys such wild brutes, and endangers his life with them.

He rides miles and miles every year; and it relieves the tedium of his journeys to have horses he must watch, I suppose." Nobody in Rosville lived at so fast a rate as the Morgesons.