strings: all that anything earthly can realize. Far short of your dreams as you may be, no could do more to realize them than that same blackeyed Fanny. If you could but contemplate her through my imagination, it would appear ridicuIous to you that any one should for a moment think of being unhappy with her. My old father used to have a saying that "If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter"; and it occurs to me that if the bargain you have just closed can possibly be called a bad one, it is certainly the most pleasant one for applying that maxim to which my fancy can by any effort picture.