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Yet though she appeared perfectly sensible of his words and gave him sorrowful and penitent looks like her old self, that sa her out, he had all the difficulty in the world to keep her froht that was very disagreeable to him, namely, that he dare not trust his wife alone with any bird or she would kill it And this was theto him to think of since iteven For we s who are familiars, with all the household pets; nayand know they will not touch it, not even if they be starving But things were come to such a pass with his vixen that he dared not in his heart trust her at all Yet she was still in many ways so much more woman than fox that he could talk to her on any subject and she would understand him, better far than the oriental women who are kept in subjection can ever understand theirhousehold topics

Thus she understood excellently well the iion She would listen with approval in the evening when he said the Lord's Prayer, and was rigid in her observance of the Sabbath Indeed, the next day being Sunday he, thinking no harame of piquet, but no, she would not play Mr Tebrick, not understanding at first what she h he was usually very quick with her, he proposed it to her again, which she again refused, and this tin of the cross with her paw This exceedingly rejoiced and coed her pardon, and fervently thanked God for having so good a wife, who, in spite of all, knew more of her duty to God than he did

But here Ithat she was a papist because she thenonly on compulsion because she could not express herself except in that way For she had been brought up as a true Protestant, and that she still was one is confirmed by her objection to cards, which would have been less than nothing to her had she been a papist Yet that evening, taking her into the drawing rooht play her so away from him in the farthest corner of the rooreatest anguish in her eyes When he spoke to her she licked his hand, but re time at his feet and showed the clearest symptoms of terror if he so much as moved towards the piano