“The old man with the gout?” cried Wilhelm: “I know not how, at your years, you could bring yourself to make so desperate a determination.”—”Nor am I tempted to it!” said Theresa. “Whoever can administer what he possesses has enough; and to be wealthy is a burdensome affair, unless you understand it.”
Wilhelm testified his admiration at her skill in husbandry concerns. “Decided inclination, early opportunity, external impulse, and continued occupation in a useful business,” said she, “make many things, which were at first far harder, possible in life. When you have learned what causes stimulated me in this pursuit, you will cease to wonder at the talent you now think strange.”
On returning home, she sent him to her little garden. Here he could scarcely turn himself, so narrow were the wa
