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"I fancy I ue idea of what that one small word

meant, and was besides in an unusually contented and peaceful state

of lass

decanters and smashed in his head with it I kno I should receive

such an assertion fronation, he ; and when he went on

to tell reatness were to be shared by

me when that celestial time came, I think I rather liked the idea than

otherwise The horrible creature seemed to have woke up that day, for

the first time, and all of a sudden, to a conviction that I was in a

fair way to become a woman, and rather a handsome one, and that he had

better make sure of me before any accident interfered to take me from

him Full of this laudable notion, he became a daily visitor of mine

from thenceforth, and made the discovery, simultaneously with myself,

that the oftener he caht I had,

before, tacitly disliked hiliness ness; but now, frorew to

positive hate The utter loathing and abhorrence I have had for hirew dimly and intuitively conscious of what he

would ue horror not to be

told in words I beca in my fearful dread of it I told hiht keep his riches,

greatness, and ungainly self for those anted him; they were

te, and stor, terrible looks

and denunciations, and I quailed and shrank like a coward, but was