You two ought to take a nap; Molly especially, poor child! I'm very sorry for you; but don't cry any more now.

It will only hurt your eyes." Mrs.Conly was to stay to tea and spend the evening.

Stepping into the parlor she found all the adult members of the family there.
"I want to have a talk with you, Louise," her brother said, seating her comfortably on a sofa and drawing up a chair beside her.
"And I think I know what about," she returned with heightened color, glancing toward Elsie, "but let me tell you beforehand, Horace, that you may as well spare yourself the trouble.

I have already accepted Mrs.
Delaford's offer." "Louise! how could you be so hasty in so important a matter ?" "Permit me to answer that question with another," she retorted, drawing herself up haughtily, "what right have you to call me to an account for so doing ?" "Only the right of an older brother to take a fraternal interest in your welfare and that of his nieces." "What is it, mother ?" asked Calhoun.
She told him in a few words, and he turned to his uncle with the query why he so seriously objected to her acceptance of what seemed so favorable an offer.
"Because I think it would be putting in great jeopardy the welfare of your sisters, temporal and spiritual" "What nonsense, Horace!" exclaimed Mrs.Conly angrily.

"Of course I shall expressly stipulate that their faith is not to be interfered with." "And just as much of course the promise will be given and systematically broken without the slightest compunction; because in the creed of Rome the end sanctifies the means and no end is esteemed higher or holier than that of adding members to her communion." "Well," said Louise, "I must say you judge them hardly.