more resolution in her those arc rare but i ire known happen sometimes with people of will mrs took an opportunity of mr pilgrim s to mrs who as a tim of and rarely en that pleasure at mrs was a woman of decided opinions though f utterance for my part she remarked i m ad to hear there s any of improvement in mrs but i think the way hare turned out seems to show that she was more to blame people she was else why should she feel so much about her husband and i understand ha left his wife pretty nearly all his property to do as she likes with is u t like such a very bad husband i don t believe mrs can have had so provocation as they pre tended i ve known husbands who ve laid plans for their wives when they re � tying up their money and them from marrying again not that should ever wish to marry again i think one husband in one s life is enough in all conscience � here she threw a fierce glance at the amiable mr was innocently himself with the in the guardian and thinking the editor must be a droll fellow � but it s to be tied up in that way why they say mrs will have as good as six hundred a year at least a fine thing for her that was a poor girl without a to her fortune it s well if she does n t make ducks and of it mrs s view of however was from being the one in even neighbors who had no strong personal interest in her could hardly see the noble looking woman in her widow s dress with a sad sweet gravity in her face and not be touched with fresh admiration for her and not feel at least va that she had entered on a new life m which it was a sort of to allude to the past and the old fi who had a real regard for her but whose cordiality had been or chilled of late years now came round her with hearty of affection mr felt that his happiness a substantial addition now he could once more call on that nice little woman mrs and think of her with rejoicing instead of sorrow the lost no time in returning to the of old established friendship with and her mother and miss tf scenes of life felt it on her on all suitable occasions to deliver a very emphatic approval of the remarkable strength of she understood mrs to be exhibiting the miss were eager to meet mr s wishes by greeting as one who was likely to be a sister in religious feeling and good works and mrs was so agreeably surprised by the fact that had left his wife the money in that handsome way to do what she liked with it that she even included himself and his discovery of the flaw in her title to s in her oblivion of past she and mrs agreed over a friendly cup of tea that there were a many husbands as was very fine spoken an all that an yet all the while a will locked np from yon as tied yon up as tight as anything i assure you mrs dropping her voice in a confidential manner i know no more to this day about mr s will the child as is i ve no fears about a income � i m well aware mr ud leave me for that but i should like to a thousand or two at my own it makes a widow a deal more looked on perhaps this ground of respect to might not be entirely its influence on ihe mind and might do something towards those more aristocratic acquaintances of s who would otherwise have been inclined to take the view of her towards errors look so very ugly in persons of small mean � one feels they are taking quite a in going astray whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a tliey ve got the money for it as the girl said of her mistress who had made herself ill with salmon however it may have been there was not an acquaintance of s in that did not offer h� r in the early days of her even the severe mrs was not an exception for heaven knows what would become of our if we never visited people we k ill of we should live like egyptian in crowded solitude perhaps the attentions most to were those of her old friend mrs whose attachment to her favorite proved quite too strong for any resentment she might be supposed to feel on the score of mr the little deaf old lady could n t do without her accustomed visitor whom she had se i grow up from child to woman always so wit ling to chat with her and tell her all the news though she was deaf while other people thought it tiresome to shout in her ear and irritated her by ear trumpets construction all this friendliness was very pre to she was conscious o� the aid it gave her in the self conquest which was the blessing she prayed for with every fresh morning e chief strength of her nature lay in her affection which colored all the rest of her mind it a personal tenderness to ner acts of benevolence it made her cling with u every object that had once stirred her kindly emotions alas it was wounded affection that had made her trouble greater than she could bear and now there was no check to the full flow of that current in her nature � no secret anguish � no overhanging terror � no inward shame friendly faces beamed on her she felt that friendly hearts were her and wishing her 