Home Lights and Shadows. T. S. Arthur

Of that I am fully satisfied. It is absolutely necessary, therefore, that I should turn my attention to something that will supply the pressing demands of my family."

      "But surely you can get into something better than the office of schoolmaster, to the sons of clodpoles."

      "Name something."

      "I'm sure I cannot tell. That is a matter for you to think about," and so saying, Mrs. Fenwick re-opened her book, and commenced poring again over the pages of the delightful work she held in her hand.

      Irritated, and half disgusted at this, a severe reproof trembled on his tongue, but he suppressed it. In a few minutes after he arose, and left the apartment without his wife seeming to notice the movement.

      "Good morning, Mr. Fenwick!" said a well known individual, coming into the lawyer's office a few minutes after he had himself entered.

      "That trial comes on this afternoon at four o'clock."

      "Well, John, I can't help it. The debt is a just one, but I have no means of meeting it now."

      "Try, and do so if you can, Mr. Fenwick, for the plaintiff is a good deal irritated about the matter, and will push the thing to extremities."

      "I should be sorry for that. But if so, let him use his own pleasure. Take nothing from nothing, and nothing remains."

      "You had better come then with security, Mr. Fenwick, for my orders are, to have an execution issued against your person, as soon as the case is decided."