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Civility now, please

EUNICE' '41 CHARLES SQUARE, Tuesday, November 22

'MY DARLING HUSBAND,--Monday will suitI have acted exactly up to your instructions, and have sold my rubbish at the broker's in the next street All this htful to me after the weeks of ood-bye--London always has seen to me than Liverpool The mid-day train on Monday will do nicely for ht

'I hope soto Miss Aldclyffe You are not, dear, are you? Forgivewife, EUNICE' This was the last of the letters from the wife to the husband One other, in Mrs Manston's handwriting, and in the same packet, was differently addressed

'THREE TRANTERS INN, CARRIFORD, November 28, 1864

'DEAR COUSIN JAMES,--Thank you indeed for answering my letter so promptly When I called at the post-office yesterday I did not in the least think there would be one But I ain at once under the strangest and saddest conditions it is possible to conceive

'I did not tell you in my last that I was a married woman Don't blame inapart from him for a tilad to go to him

Then this is what he did He pro me to do the journey alone He promised to h the darkness to his house, and found his door locked and hied to coe village inn! I choose the present moment to write to drive away my misery Sorrow seems a sort of pleasure when you detail it on paper--poor pleasure though

'But this is what I want to know--and I aladly do as you say, and come to you as a housekeeper, but I have not the e Jah to send it? I could e to subsist in London upon the proceeds of my sale for another month or six weeks Will you send it to the same address at the post-office? But how do I know that you' Thus the letter ended Froot so far, had become dissatisfied with her production, and had crumpled it in her hand Was it to write another, or not to write at all?