ut still I thought it best to go around and make some more preparations. When I have a secret to carry, it oppresses my frank and open nature more than you would thin

ry decent man allows his wife to fill the pos

ope that Hartman will

reverse. No doubt he will take us as he finds us. He will hardly want to go

are all prepared to meet

I thought we were to convert him. I hope I do not need to be instructed how to receive my hus

: will she d

r. Hartman. We are not three little maids from school, to be taught our manners. Why can you not learn that matters would move jus

isms: but she does not seem to appreciate them. I fear she must have had some Scottish ancestors. Sometimes I think she does not appreciate me. It is a cold world; a cold, heartless, unfeeling, unresponsive world, in which the s

t, and expect to bring Hartman back. You will

and I have to arrange my sentenc

een preparing me, and all of us, for this visit, for the last month? W

icious, so haughty, so unapproachable. You have great influence with he

it was not intended to be practiced on me-not on her part; that is your unauthorized addition to her text." And the maiden assumed the part of Pallas, and gazed at me with severity, as if she would read my

ed wickedness. What would I want to deceive you for? You know we all have to consider Clarice, and humor her: she is an orphan, and we are

go to town with an easy mind. Leave Mr. Hartman to Clarice a

, and not bother to coach her as she has me: perhaps she can trust Jane farther. That must be it: one woman can see into another's mind where a man couldn't. I must put a mark on that