The cowardly slave!--the fiend! for who but a fiend could slander an angel like my Josephine?
Hooked?
Oh! she will never marry you if she sees this." "Then don't let her see it: and why take it to heart like that?
I don't trust to the word of a man who owns that his story is a thing he dares not sign his name to; at all events, I shall not put his word against yours.

But it is best to understand one another in time.

I am a plain man, but not a soft one.

I should not be an easygoing husband like some I see about: I'd have no wasps round my honey; if my wife took a lover I would not lecture THE WOMAN--what is the use ?--I'd kill THE MAN then and there, in-doors or out, as I would kill a snake.

If she took another, I'd send him after the first, and so on till one killed me." "And serve the wretches right." "Yes; but for my own sake I don't choose to marry a woman that loves any other man.