I wish you had never seen me.' 'If you say that, then I shall be crushed.' 'For your sake, my darling; for your sake,--for your sake! How shall I comfort you when all those around you are saying that you are not my wife ?' 'By telling me that I am,' she said, coming and kneeling at his feet, and looking up into his face.

'If you say so, you may be sure that I shall believe no one who says the contrary.' It was thus, and only now, that he began to know the real nature of the woman whom he had succeeded in making his own, and of whom he found now that even her own friends would attempt to rob him.

'I will bear it,' he said, as he embraced her.

'I will bear it, if I can, like a man.' 'Oh, ma'am! those men were saying horrid things,' her nurse said to her that night.
'Yes; very horrid things.

I know it all.