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"Shall I?" I said briefly; and I looked at his features, beautiful

in their harely for but not open; at his eyes, bright and deep

and searching, but never soft; at his tall iure; and

fancied myself in idea HIS WIFE Oh! it would never do! As his

curate, his coht: I would cross oceans with

him in that capacity; toil under Eastern suns, in Asian deserts with

hie and devotion and

vigour; accommodate quietly to his masterhood; smile undisturbed at

his ineradicable ambition; discriminate the Christian froive the other I should

suffer often, no doubt, attached to him only in this capacity: ent yoke, but my heart and hted self to turn to:

s hich to communicate in moments

of loneliness There would be recesses in my mind which would be

onlythere

fresh and sheltered which his austerity could never blight, nor his

measured warrior-march trample down: but as his wife--at his side