and also that this concession had been granted in obedience to the request of that friend or enemy she shook her head and toiled on the time for the rat catching arrived at last and the h mt b an the creatures had crept downwards with the of the till they were all together at the bottom and being now from their last refuge they ran across the open in au directions a loud shriek from the by this time informing her companions that one of the rats had invaded her person � a terror which the rest of the women had guarded against by various schemes of skirt and self elevation the rat was at last and amid the barking of dogs masculine shouts feminine screams oaths and confusion as of her by the convert last the drum the and she stepped from the machine to the her lover who had only looked on at the rat catching was at her side what � after all � my insulting slap too said she in an she was so utterly e that she had not strength to speak louder i should indeed be foolish to feel offended at anything you say or do he answered in the voice of the time how the little limbs tremble you are as weak as a calf you know you are and yet you need have done nothing since i arrived how could you be so obstinate however i have told the farmer that he has no right to employ women at steam it is not proper work for them and on all the better class of farms it has been given up as he knows very well i will walk with you as far as your home o yes she answered with a gait walk wi me if you will i do bear in mind that you came to marry me before you knew o my state perhaps � perhaps you are a little better kinder than i have been thinking you were whatever is meant as kindness i am grateful for whatever is meant in any other way i am at i cannot sense your meaning sometimes if i cannot our former relations at least i can assist you and i will do it with much more r ard for your feelings than i formerly showed my religious or whatever it was is over but i retain a little good i hope i do now by all that s tender and strong between man and women trust me i have enough and more than enough to put you out of anxiety both for yourself and your parents and sisters i can make em all comfortable if you will only show confidence in me have you seen lately she quickly yes they didn t know where you were it was only by chance that i found you here by op the d the cold moon looked upon s face between the twigs of the i hedge as she paused outside the e which was her temporary home d pausing beside her don t mention my little brothers and don t make me down quite she said if you want to help them � god knows they need it � do it without telling me but no no she cried i will take nothing from you either for them or for me he did not accompany her further since as she lived with the household all was public indoors no sooner had she entered herself in a washing tub and shared supper with the family than she fell into thought and withdrawing to the table under the wall by the light of her own little lamp wrote in a passionate mood � mv own husband � let me call you i � ven if it makes you angry to think of such an unworthy wife as i i must cr to you in mv � i have no one else i am so exposed to temptation angel i tear to say who it is and i do not like to write about it at au but i cling to you in a way ou cannot think can you not come to me now at once before any terrible happens o i know you cannot because you are so far away i think i must die if you do not come soon or me to come to you the punishment you have measured out to me is deserved � i do know that � well � and you are right and just to be angry with me but angel please please not to be just � only a little kind to me even if i do not deserve it and come to if you would come i could die in your arms i would be well content to do that if so be you had angel i live entirely for you i love you too much to blame for going away and i know it was you should find a farm do not think i shall say a word of sting or bitterness only come back to me i am desolate without you my darling o so i do not mind having to work but if you will send me one little line and say am coming soon i will bide on o so cheerfully it has so much my religion ever since we were married to be faithful to you in every it and look that even when a m speaks a compliment to me before i am aware it seems have you never felt one little bit of what you used to feel when we were at the if you have how can you keep away from me i am the same woman ai as you fell in love with yes the veiy same � not the one you disliked but never saw what was the past to me as soon as i 