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Had her prosaic spouse addressed her in a rhythmic improvisation,

Mabel could not have beenby hi his

temples with her cool, firm palht river"

"Until death do us part!" Herbert repeated, thoughtfully "I wish I

could hear you say, once, that you do not regret that clause of your

e voas not your heart's choice, you know, Mabel,

however decided ht oppresses me as it did not in the first

years of our wedded life"

"I aan the wife "I would

disabuse your mind--"

"All in the dark!" exclai odor of chlorofor-shawl that covered

Herbert's lower limbs over his arms and chest

"I will open the !" she said, deprecatingly

A sluice of cold air rushed in, beating the blaze this way and that,

puffing ashes fro from Mrs

Aylett ould have been a peevish interjection in another woman

"My dear sister! the remedy is worse than the offence Chloroform is

preferable to creosote, or whatever aboredient of s-point!"