"You are very sound and sensible in your advice to Mr. Morton," she
replied. "One may very easily sin against life and health beyond the
point of remedy. I should judge from Mr. Morton's words that he is in
danger."

"Now, mother, thee sees that Emily Warren believes in the terrors of
the law."

"Thee wouldn't be a very good one at enforcing them, Emily," said Mrs.
Yocomb, nodding her head smilingly toward her favorite.

"The trouble is," said Miss Warren a little sadly, "that some laws
enforce themselves. I know of so many worn-out people in New York,
both men and women, that I wish that Mr. Yocomb's words were printed
at the head of ail our leading newspapers."

"Yes," said Mr. Yocomb, "if editors and newspaper writers were only as
eager to quiet the people as they are to keep up the hubbub of the
world, they might make their calling a useful one. It almost takes
away my breath to read some of our great journals."

"Do you not think laziness the one pre-eminent vice of the world?"
tasked.

"Not of native-born Americans. I think restlessness, nervous activity,
is the vice of our age. I am out of the whirl, and can see it all the
more clearly. Thee admits that thy city life was killing thee--I know
it would kill me in a month."

"I would like to have a chance to be killed by it," said Adah, with a