I do not feel certain that Aunt Delaford's money will ever come to me, or that, if it does, I may not lose it.

So I intend to prepare to support myself if it should ever become necessary." "How ?" "I intend to take up the English branches again, also the higher mathematics, and make myself thorough in them (which I am far from being now; they do not teach them thoroughly at the convent), so that I may be able to command a good position as a teacher.
"And let me advise you to do the same." "Indeed, I've no fancy for such hard work," sneered Virginia.

"I'd rather trust to luck.

I'll be pretty sure to be taken care of somehow." "I should think if any one might feel justified in doing that it would be Cousin Elsie," said Isadore; "but Uncle Horace educated her in a way to make her quite capable of earning her own living, and she is doing the same by every one of her children." "Such nonsense!" muttered Virginia.
"Such prudence and forethought, I should say," laughed her sister.
A few days after this Isadore was calling at Ion and in the course of conversation Mrs.Travilla remarked, with concern, "Virginia looks really unhappy of late.

Is her trouble anything it would be in my power to relieve ?" "No; unless she would listen to good counsel from you.