Now, you know, Gracie, I never found it easy to get along with ladies at first; but Lillie has the most extraordinary way of putting a fellow at his ease.

Why, she made me feel like an old friend the first hour." "Indeed!" "Look here," said John, triumphantly drawing out his pocket-book, and producing thence a knot of rose-colored satin ribbon.

"Did you ever see such a lovely color as this?
It's so exquisite, you see! Well, she always is wearing just such knots of ribbon, the most lovely shades.
Why, there isn't one woman in a thousand could wear the things she does.

Every thing becomes her.

Sometimes it's rose color, or lilac, or pale blue,--just the most trying things to others are what she can wear." "Dear John, I hope you looked for something deeper than the complexion in a wife," said Grace, driven to moral reflections in spite of herself.
"Oh, of course!" said John: "she has such soft, gentle, winning ways; she is so sympathetic; she's just the wife to make home happy, to be a bond of union to us all.