" said Augusta, "she didn't deserve such good luck.
I am told that that Colonel Stubbs can't afford to keep any kind of
carriage for her. But then, to be sure, she has never been used to a
carriage."

"Oh, Tom, do look up," said his mother, "and say that you will try to
be happy."

"He'll be all right in New York," said Gertrude. "There's no place in
the world, they say, where the girls put themselves forward so much,
and make things so pleasant for the young men."

"He will soon find some one there," said Augusta, "with a deal more
to say for herself than Ayala, and a great deal better-looking."

"I hope he will find some one who will really love him," said his
mother.

Tom sat silent while he listened to all this encouragement, turning
his face from one speaker to the other. It was continued, with many
other similar promises of coming happiness, and assurances that
he had been a gainer in losing all that he lost, when he suddenly
turned sharply upon them, and strongly expressed his feelings to his
sisters. "I don't believe that either of you know anything about it,"
he said.

"Don't know anything about what?" said Augusta, who as a lady who
had been married over twelve months, and was soon about to become a
mother, felt that she certainly did know all about it.

"Why don't we know as well as you?" asked Gertrude, who had also had
her experiences.

"I don't believe you do know anything about it;--that's all," said
Tom. "And now there's the cab. Good-bye, mother! Good-bye, Augusta.
I hope you'll be all right." This alluded to the baby. "Good-bye,
Gertrude. I hope you'll get all right too some day." This alluded to
Gertrude's two lovers. Then he left them, and as he got into his cab
declared to himself that neither of them had ever, or would ever,
know anything of that special trouble which had so nearly overwhelmed
himself.

"Upon my word, Tom," said his father, walking about the vessel with
him, "I wish I were going to New York myself with you;--it all looks
so comfortable."

"Yes," said Tom, "it's very nice."

"You'll enjoy yourself amazingly. There is that Mrs. Thompson has two
as pretty daughters with her as ever a man wished to see." Tom shook
his head. "And you're fond of smoking. Did you see the smoking-room?
They've got everything on board these ships now. Upon my word I envy
you the voyage."

"It's as good as anything else, I daresay," said Tom. "Perhaps it's
better than London."

Then his f