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134 ankle deep. My feet were wet when I got to the ballroom, but I danced till five o'clock in the morning. Had mamma made me go up to my room and undress, how much better that would have been for me."

Noble's mother then said to her, "Minnie, I will again get your teacher. Do you settle yourself, and study hard, and you will yet be an honor to your mamma and all connected with you."

Minnie's troubles were not over yet, for she never stuck to her good resolutions. On one occasion Noble took Minnie out riding. On their return she was sobbing like a frightened child; she said he had whipped her. I can not say if it was true or not, as when I asked him what he had done to her, he replied, in a very gentlemanly manner, he had not done anything to her but get a letter from her she received from her mother. The contents were, that her brother, on his way to Europe, had seen Minnie, and wrote back to his mother to send for and take her home, as she was very unhappy; though every one who knew Minnie knew that, at that time, she was as happy as she could be made; but it was her disposition to make any one from her home believe she was miserable and badly treated.

Of course, this letter made Noble very angry; there was no more peace between them; she would do as she pleased, and he would not have it so. On another occasion he wished her to call on a lady; she consented, when he engaged a private carriage for her, but she engaged a larger one for herself, and took some ladies with her, and a gentleman Noble did not like. When he found what she had done, he drove his buggy up by the side of the carriage, and made