My salary will not be less than $800 per annum, and perhaps it will be fixed at a $1,000....

The new arrangement will go into effect on the 1st of July." But alas; the managers took no such action on the morrow, nor went the "new arrangement" into effect at the time anticipated.

The editor was married in September, and two months later the eagerly expected relief was still delayed.

This hope deferred must have caused the young husband meanwhile no little anxiety and heart sickness.
Love in a cottage is very pretty and romantic in novels, but love in a cottage actually thriving on "bread and water," was a sweet reality in the home of the young couple in Roxbury.

"All the world loves a lover," says Emerson, but alas! there are exceptions to all rules, and all the world loved not Garrison in his newly found felicity as shall presently appear.
The pledge made by the reformer in the initial number of the _Liberator_ to be "as harsh as truth," had been kept to the letter.