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334 MRS. RICHARDS’ GREAT EXPECTATIONS. wear your old clothes this winter. My trouble has been tided over for the present through the kindness of a friend, but it will require great care and calculation on my part to keep my head above board even now. I shall have to begin cautiously, or I shall be back again in the slough of despond.” —** Bat I do not see how we can get along without some new things,” began Mrs. Richards, selfishly. ‘*You must; that is all there is about it,” returned her hus- band, positively. ‘‘If you can’t go into society and wear what you have, then you must stay at home this winter; and I do not think it would do you any harm for once, either.” Mrs. Richards flushed angrily. When she saw her husband in this mood, she knew there was no turning him, and she would be obliged to submit to his edict. ‘‘T’m sure I do not see what can have happened to make you so penurious all of a sudden,” she said, sullenly. ‘*Penurious! Oh, Ellen!” He looked at her yearningly for a moment. She was a handsome, distinguished-looking woman, and had been a very fond and tender wife during the first years of their married life; but unlimited indulgence, and constantly mingling in the fashionable world, had made her selfish and unfeeling. ‘‘My dear,” he went on, aftera moment, ‘‘why cannot you cemfort me a little—give me a little sympathy in my trouble? My burden has been very hard to bear alone, and the worst of it has been that I was obliged to refuse your requests. You know that Lam not .peaunious—that I never denied you any- thingithat doula possibly grant you. Ellen, I wish you could ber aisitile an ore kipgitecsae than you have been of late.” biickdbipobknawchny thing: ake wt soysiness matters ; I could give you very little advice or comfort inrthat way,” she replied, agldly atid then:shelslefe imi fdelingeverpimiserable, and in anything lbut aacamfoftable framevdf,mindsherself, and not a Gomicbooks (E(0)