A Good-For-Nothing

Mother, who, in spite of her anxiety for the child's life, had found time to plot for him a career of future magnificence, now suddenly set him apart for literature, because that was the easiest road to fame, and disposed of him in marriage to one of the most distinguished families of the land. Ralph Grimm was born a gentleman, he had the misfortune of coming into the orld some ten years later than might reasonably have been expected. Colonel Grim and his lady had celebrated twelve nniversaries of their wedding-day, and had given up all hopes of ever having a son and heir, when this late comer startled hem by his unexpected appearance. The only previous addition to the family had been a daughter, and she was then ten ummers old.