seem less strange if i give the purport of the dialogue interrupted some time back margaret went on to say � then in that case you can easily make him fancy you and for my sake you must for my conscience it me and i must needs fit him with a wife the best i know margaret then instructed to be always kind and good humoured to and she would be a model of to him � but be not thou so simple as to run me down said she leave that to me make thou excuses me i will make myself black received these instructions like an to sweep a room and obeyed them when they subjected poor to thi double for a couple of years he got tc look upon margaret as fog and wind an as his sunshine and his affections transferred themselves and he scarce knew how oi when on the wedding day embraced margaret and thanked her almost with tears he wa always my said she firom the first hour i clapped eyes on you never told me that what are you as sly as the rest nay nay said eagerly but i thought you would really part with him to me in my country the mistress looks to be before the maid margaret settled them in her shop and them f the profits and were years of great trouble tc whose conscience compelled him to oppose the pope his with the grey in their to swamp every palpable distinction between the virgin mary and her son the christian world into his by pardon of all sins to such as would add to the ave mary this and blessed be thy mother from whom without blot of original sin proceeded thy virgin flesh in common with many of the northern clergy held this sentence to be flat he not only refused to utter it in his church but warned his against using it in private and he refused to the new feast the pope invented at the same time the feast of the miraculous conception of the virgin but this drew upon him the bitter enmity of the and they were strong enough to put him into more than one serious difficulty and ii many a little mortification on him in he consulted margaret and she always did one of two things either she said i do not see my way and refused to guess or else she gave him advice that proved wonderfully sagacious he had genius but she had marvellous tact and where affection came in and the woman s judgment he stepped in his turn to her aid thus though she knew she was little and was him for life she would not part with him but kept him at home and his abilities and there was a shrewd boy of nine years instead of learning to work and obey playing about and learning selfishness from their infinite and thk and the hearth with a rod of iron over two women both of them sagacious and spirited but reduced by their fondness for him to the exact level of saw this with pain and interfered with mild but firm remonstrance and after a considerable struggle prevailed and got little sent to tl e best school in europe kept by one at this was in many tears were shed but the great progress the boy made at that famous school reconciled margaret in some degree and the fidelity of now her partner in business enabled her to spend weeks at a time hovering over her boy at and so the years and these two persons subjected to as strong and constant a temptation as can well be conceived were each other s guardian angels and not each other s to be sure the well morality of the next century which taught that solemn vows to god are sacred in proportion as they are reasonable had at that time entered no single mind and the alternative to these two minds was self denial or it was a strange thing to hear them talk with tenderness to one another of their boy and an icy barrier between themselves all the time eight years had now passed thus and fairly compared with men in general was happy but margaret was not the habitual expression of her face was a sweet but sometimes she was irritable and a little she even snapped now and then and when she went to see him if a was with him she would turn her back and go home she hated the for having parted and her and she her boy with a contempt for them which lasted him till his dying day bore with her like an angel he knew ber heart of gold and hoped this ill gust would blow over he himself being now the right man in the right place this many years loving his and beloved by them and occupied from till night in good works recovered the natural of his disposition to tell the truth a part of his was a blind he was the greatest except mr harmony in the play that ever was bom he reconciled more enemies in ten years than his had done in three hundred and one of his in the art was to make the laugh at the cause of quarrel so did he the demon of discord but of that he really loved a harmless joke he was a wonderful of animals c so half in jest a who had a mule supposed to be possessed with a devil gave it him and said tame this parson if ye can well in about six months heaven knows how he not only tamed jack but won his to such a degree that jack would come running to his whistle like a dog one day having taken shelter a shower on the stone settle outside a certain public house he 