As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.

I am at length happy to be able to record in the Nautical that the terra Lunarist is no longer one of reproach: — that henceforward one may speculate on the agency of the moon in causing what we call weather without meeting with that derisive sarcasm which, even from the mouth of well meaning friends, could only be a pang or a regret.

The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.

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