at home again said standing in front of him and holding his coat collar with both her hands mr was here with me when mrs came in he seemed vexed do you think he disliked her seeing him at our house surely your position is more than equal to his � whatever may be his relation to the no no it must be else if he were really vexed is a sort of he nothing of and music apart he is not always very agreeable do you like him yes i think he is a good fellow rather miscellaneous and d but do you know i think he mrs poor devil said smiling and his wife s ears felt herself to know a great deal of the world in what when she was in her unmarried had been inconceivable to her except as a dim tragedy in � that women even after marriage might make and men at that time young ladies in the even when educated at mrs s read uttle french literature later than and public prints had not cast their present magnificent illumination over the of life still vanity with a woman s whole mind and day to work in can abundantly on slight hints especially on such a hint as the possibility of indefinite how delightful to make from the throne of marriage with a husband as crown prince by your side � himself in fact a subject � while the look up for ever hopeless losing their rest probably and if their appetite too so much the but s romance turned at present chiefly on her crown and it was enough to enjoy his assured when he said poor devil she asked with playful curiosity why so book y � the dead hand why what can a man do he takes to one of you he only his work and runs up bills j am sure you do not neglect your work you are always at the hospital or seeing poor or thinking about some doctor s quarrel and at home you always want to pore over your and confess you like those things better than me haven t you ambition enough to wish that your husband should be something better than a doctor said ate letting his hands ml on to his wife s shoulders and looking at ner with affectionate gravity i shall make you learn my favourite bit from an old poet � why onr v de make a stir to he and be what good is like to this to do the and to write the reading and tiie world s delight f i want is to do worthy the writing � and to write out myself what i have done a man must work to do that my pet of course i wish you to make discoveries no one could more wish you to attain a high position in some better place than you cannot say that i have ever tried to hinder you from working but we cannot live like you are not discontented with me no dear no i am too entirely contented but what did mrs want to say to you merely to ask about her husband s health but i think she is going to be splendid to our new hospital i think she give us two hundred a year chapter i would not creep along the coast but steer oat in by guidance of the stars when walking round the laurel planted plots of the new with had learned from him that there were no signs of change in mr s bodily condition the mental sim of to know the truth about his illness she was silent for a moments wondering whether she had said or done anything to rouse this new not willing to let slip an opportunity of a favourite purpose ventured to say � i don t know whether your or mr s attention has been drawn to the needs of our new hospital circumstances have made it seem rather in me to urge the subject but that is not my fault it is because there is a fight being made against it by the other medical men i think you are generally interested in such things for i tliat when i first had the pleasure of seeing you at before marriage you were asking me some questions about the way m which the health of the poor was affected their miserable yes indeed said brightening i shall be quite grateful to you if you will tell me how i can help to make things a uttle better everything of that sort has slipped away from me i have been married i mean she said after a moment s hesitation that the people in our village are tolerably comfortable and my mind has been too much taken up for me to inquire further but here � in such a place as � there must be a great deal to be done there is everything to be done said with abrupt energy j and this hospital is a capital piece of work due entirely to mr j s exertions and in a great degree to his money one man can t do everything in a scheme of sort of course he looked to help and now there s a mean petty set up against the thing in the town by certain persons who want to make it a what can be their reasons said with surprise chiefly mr s to begin with half the town would trouble for the sake of him in � s stupid world most people never consider that a thing is good to e done unless it is done by their own set i had no connection with before i came here i look at him quite and i see that he has some notions � that he has set on foot � which ix an turn public purpose 