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"That was a strange question to be put by his darling Jane"

"Indeed! I considered it a very natural and necessary one: he had

talked of his future wife dying with hian idea? I had no intention of dying with hied, all he prayed for, was that I ht live with

him! Death was not for such as I"

"Indeed it was: I had as good a right to die when my time came as

he had: but I should bide that tiive hi kiss?"

"No: I would rather be excused"

Here I heard ;" and it

was added, "any other wo such stanzas crooned in her praise"

I assured him I was naturally hard--very flinty, and that he would

often find me so; and that, ed points infour weeks

elapsed: he should know fully what sort of a bargain he had made,

while there was yet time to rescind it

"Would I be quiet and talk rationally?"

"I would be quiet if he liked, and as to talking rationally, I