Meantime, Mrs.
Comegys remained in entire ignorance of what was alleged against her, although she noticed in two or three of her acquaintances, a trifling coldness that struck her as rather singular.
One day her husband, seeing that she looked quite sober, said-- "You seem quite dull to-day, dear.

Don't you feel well ?" "Yes, I feel as well as usual, in body." "But not in mind ?" "I do not feel quite comfortable in mind, certainly, though I don't know that I have any serious cause of uneasiness." "Though a slight cause exists.

May I ask what it is ?" "It is nothing more nor less than that I was coolly _cut_ by an old friend to-day, whom I met in a store on Chesnut street.

And as she is a woman that I highly esteem, both for the excellence of her character, and the agreeable qualities, as a friend, that she possesses.

I cannot but feel a little bad about it.