He examined many matters which are usually left to women, and he applied his business talent to the art of living, succeeding in it as he did in everything else.
Alice told me that Charles had been poor; that his father was never on good terms with him.

She fancied they were too much alike; so he had turned him off to shift for himself, when quite young.

When she met him, he was the agent of a manufacturing company, in the town where her parents lived, and even then, in his style of living, he surpassed the young men of her acquaintance.

The year before they were married his father died, and as Charles was his only child, he left his farm to him, and ten thousand dollars--all he had.

The executors of the will were obliged to advertise for him, not having any clue to his place of residence.