In our family, an unhappy marriage was never known.

Even when your grandfather's sister married a Bellingham,--and of course everybody knows the Bellingham temper,--and they quarreled, just three weeks to a day after the wedding, she never thought of such a disgraceful thing as leaving him.

I have heard dear mamma say she never spoke to him again, except when she had to ask for money; that almost killed her, she was so proud.

But she never would have lowered herself by leaving him.

Yes, this is really most improper in poor dear Helen." Miss Deborah's feelings vibrated, even while she was making the jelly, and though it was finally sent, she balanced her kindness by saying to Mrs.Dale that it did not seem just right for a young thing like Lois to know of such a painful affair.