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fool, a mere incidental in the work of hu his le-worranite

Mabel's husband was not a simpleton, or characterless; but if he had

been, his prospetts of success would not have been e of his deficiencies A union with hirees eley, banned by its owner and patronized by

his wife I neither excuse nor bla Should I censure, a majority of my readers--nearly all

of the masculine portion--would pick holes in ical, brandup their protest with the sigh of the reat Teacher's deliverance upon the

subject of divorce, "If the case of the ood toback thankfully

upon the blessed stronghold of unambitious story-tellers--namely,

that my vocation is to describe what IS--not make fancy-sketches of

millennial days, when rectitude shall be the best, because most

remunerative policy; when sincerity shall be wisdom--proven and

indisputable, and consistency the rule of hu, as it now is, one of the lost (or

never invented) fine arts