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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

CHAPTER XXX
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She never gives him a word of reproach or complaint, do what he will.

He says there's not such a jewel in all England, and swears he wouldn't take a kingdom for her.' 'But he makes her life a curse to her.' 'Not he! She has no will but his, and is always contented and happy as long as he is enjoying himself.' 'In that case she is as great a fool as he is; but it is not so.

I have several letters from her, expressing the greatest anxiety about his proceedings, and complaining that you incite him to commit those extravagances--one especially, in which she implores me to use my influence with you to get you away from London, and affirms that her husband never did such things before you came, and would certainly discontinue them as soon as you departed and left him to the guidance of his own good sense.' 'The detestable little traitor! Give me the letter, and he shall see it as sure as I'm a living man.' 'No, he shall not see it without her consent; but if he did, there is nothing there to anger him, nor in any of the others.

She never speaks a word against him: it is only anxiety for him that she expresses.

She only alludes to his conduct in the most delicate terms, and makes every excuse for him that she can possibly think of; and as for her own misery, I rather feel it than see it expressed in her letters.' 'But she abuses me; and no doubt you helped her.' 'No; I told her she over-rated my influence with you, that I would gladly draw you away from the temptations of the town if I could, but had little hope of success, and that I thought she was wrong in supposing that you enticed Mr.Hattersley or any one else into error.


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