[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the authors ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.]
A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES
By William Dean Howells
PART SECOND
I.
The evening when March closed with Mrs. Green's reduced offer, and decided to take her apartment, the widow whose lodgings he had rejected sat with her daughter in an upper room at the back of her house. In the shaded glow of the drop-light she was sewing, and the girl was drawing at