"Brother Abe,"in her heedlessness of the mischief she had wrought, Blossy seemed almost to sing,"I never shall forget your speech as long as I live.

Mr. Croker shows almost as much ignorance and heedlessness in his criticisms as in his statements concerning facts.

His real blame consists in the heedlessness with which, in the beginning of their acquaintance, he surrendered himself to the charm of her presence, thereby engaging her affection without a thought of the consequences to either.

Hence a man ought not to be alarmed to the point of hopelessness by the calamities of the moment, nor to be elated to heedlessness by temporary exultation, but by placing his hope of the future half-way between both to make reliable calculations for either event.

"Heedlessness on my side, a crooked judge on his.