At last, when a lucky stroke made me suddenly rich, and I came home to seek her, I found her married,--married, as she owns, without love,--married for wealth and ambition.

I don't justify myself,--I don't pretend to; but when she met me with her old smiles and her old charms, and told me she loved me still, it roused the very devil in me.

I wanted revenge.
I wanted to humble her, and make her suffer all she had made me; and I didn't care what came of it." Harry spoke, trembling with emotion; and Rose felt almost terrified with the storm she had raised.
"O Mr.Endicott!" she said, "was this worthy of you?
was there nothing better, higher, more manly than this poor revenge?
You men are stronger than we: you have the world in your hands; you have a thousand resources where we have only one.

And you ought to be stronger and nobler according to your advantages; you ought to rise superior to the temptations that beset a poor, weak, ill-educated woman, whom everybody has been flattering from her cradle, and whom you, I dare say, have helped to flatter, turning her head with compliments, like all the rest of them.

Come, now, is not there something in that ?" "Well, I suppose," said Harry, "that when Lillie and I were girl and boy together, I did flatter her, sincerely that is.