umphantly fit the clipping into the space from
which it had been cut. Those two could quar-
rel all morning about whether he ought to put
on his heavy or his light underwear, and all
evening about whether he had taken cold or
not.

The Cutters had major as well as minor sub-
jects for dispute. The chief of these was the
question of inheritance: Mrs. Cutter told her
husband it was plainly his fault they had no
children. He insisted that Mrs. Cutter had
purposely remained childless, with the de-
termination to outlive him and to share his
property with her "people," whom he de-
tested. To this she would reply that unless he
changed his mode of life, she would certainly
outlive him. After listening to her insinua-
tions about his physical soundness, Cutter
would resume his dumb-bell practice for a
month, or rise daily at the hour when his wife
most liked to sleep, dress noisily, and drive out
to the track with his trotting-horse.

Once when they had quarreled about house-
hold expenses, Mrs. Cutter put on her brocade
and went among their friends soliciting orders
for painted china, saying that Mr. Cutter had
compelled her "to live by her brush." Cutter

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