150 THERE IS NO HURRY.

* Not think so!” exclaimed John; “do I
not make the money myself?”

‘‘ Granted, my dear fellow; to be sure you
do,” said Charles.

‘¢* Then why should I not spend it as pleases
me best? Is there any reason why I should
not ?”’

As if to give the strongest dramatic effect to
Charles’s opinion, the nurse at that moment
opened the drawing-room door, and four little
laughing children rushed into the room.

‘‘ There—are four reasons against your spend-
ing your income exactly as you please; unless,
indeed, part of your plan be to provide for
them,” answered Charles very seriously.

“7 am sure,” observed Mrs. Adams, with the
half-offended air of a weak woman when she
hears the truth, ** John need not be told his duty
to his children; he has always been a most af-
fectionate father.”

‘‘ A father may be fond and foolish,” said
Charles, who was peculiarly English in his
mode of giving an opinion. ‘ For my part, I
could not kiss my little Mary and Anne when
I go to bed at night, if I did not feel I had al-
ready formed an accumulating fund for their
future support—a support they will need all the
more when their parents are taken from them,
as they must be, in the course of time.”

‘* They must. marry,” said Mrs. Adams.

‘ That is a chance,” replied Charles; “ wo-