"You've known all this time that Comstock got what he deserved, when he undertook to sneak in an unused way across a swamp, with which he was none too familiar.

Now I should have thought that you'd figure that knowing the same thing would be the best method to cure me of pining for him, and slighting my child." "Heaven only knows we have thought of that, and talked of it often, but we were both too big cowards.

We didn't dare tell you." "So you have gone on year after year, watching me show indifference to Elnora, and yet a little horse-sense would have pointed out to you that she was my salvation.

Why look at it! Not married quite a year.

All his vows of love and fidelity made to me before the Almighty forgotten in a few months, and a dance and a Light Woman so alluring he had to lie and sneak for them.