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"Has anything worried you?" she said "Did that man come to you at the

Bank?"

"Yes; it was as I had supposed He is a ht have

done better But he has sunk into a drunken debauched creature"

"Is he quite gone away?" said Mrs Bulstrode, anxiously but for certain

reasons she refrained fro himself a friend of yours" At thatwhich implied her habitual consciousness

that her husband's earlier connections were not quite on a level with

her own Not that she knew much about them That her husband had at

first been employed in a bank, that he had afterwards entered into what

he called city business and gained a fortune before he was

three-and-thirty, that he had married a ho was much older than

himself--a Dissenter, and in other ways probably of that

disadvantageous quality usually perceptible in a first wife if inquired

into with the dispassionate judgment of a second--was alliave of his early bent towards religion, his

inclination to be a preacher, and his association with missionary and