a heaving bosom not at all i have originated nothing the double edged question was yours was mine i the bride and her breaks in her angry hand his colour has turned to a livid white and ominous marks have come to light about his nose as if the of the very devil him mutual self liad within the last few moments touched it here and there but he has power and she has none throw it away he coolly as to the yon have made it useless you look ridiculous with it whereupon she calls him in her rage a deliberate villain and casts the broken thing from her as that it strikes him in falling the finger marks are something for the instant but he on at her side she bursts into tears declaring herself the the most deceived the worst used of women then she says that if she had the courage to kill herself she would do it then she calls him vile then she asks him why in the disappointment of his base speculation he does not take her life with his own hand imder the present favourable circumstances then she cries again then she is enraged again and makes some of finally she sits down crying on a block of stone and is in all the known and unknown of her sex at once her changes those marks in his ice have come and gone now here now there like white stops of a pipe on which the has played a tune also his livid lips are parted at last as if he were breathless with running yet he is not now get up mrs and let us speak reasonably she sits upon her stone and takes no heed of him � get up i tell you her head she looks contemptuously in his face and you tell me i tell me she not to know that his eyes are fastened on her as she her head again but her whole figure that she knows it enough of this come i do you hear get up yielding to his hand she rises and they walk again but this time with their turned towards their place of residence mrs we have both been deceiving and we have both been deceived we have both been biting and we have both been bitten in a nut ell there s the state of the case you sought me out tut let us have done with that we know very well how it was why should you and i talk about it when you and i can t disguise it to proceed i am disappointed and cut a poor figure am i no one some one � and i was coming to you if you had waited a moment you too axe disappointed and cut a poor figure an injured figure you are now cool enough to see that you can t be injured without my being equally injured and that therefore the word is not to the purpose when i look back i wonder ho i can have been such a fool as to take you to so great an extent upon trust and when i look back the bride cries interrupting and when you look back you wonder how you can is ve been excuse the word our with so � a fool as to take me to so great an extent upon but the folly is committed on sides i cannot get nd of you you cannot get rid of me what follows shame and misery the bride bitterly replies i don t know a mutual understanding follows and i think it may carry us through here i split my discourse give me your arm into three heads to make it shorter and it s enough to have been done without the mortification of being known to have been done so we agree to keep the ct to ourselves you agree � if it is possible i do possible we have pretended well enough to one another can t we united pretend to the world agreed secondly we owe the a grudge and we owe all other people the grudge of wishing them to be taken in as we ourselves have been taken a d yes agreed � we come smoothly to you have called me an adventurer so i am in plain english so i am so are you my dear so are many people we agree to keep our own secret and to work together in of our own schemes what schemes any scheme that will bring us money by our own schemes i mean our joint interest agreed she answers after a little hesitation i suppose so agreed carried at once you see i now only half a dozen words more we know one another perfectly don t be tempted into me with the past knowledge that you have of me because it is identical with the past knowledge that i have of you and in me you yourself and i don t want to hear you do it with this good understanding established between us it is better never done to wind up all � you have shown temper today don t be betrayed into doing so again because i have a devil of a temper myself so the happy pair with this hopeful marriage contract thus signed sealed and delivered repair homeward i when those infernal finger marks were on the white and breathless countenance of they that he conceived the purpose of his dear wife mrs alfred by at once her of any lingering reality or pretence of self respect the purpose would seem to have been presently executed the mature young lady has mighty little need of powder now for her downcast oe as he her in the light of the setting sun to their abode of bliss i our mutual d chapter xi f d mr was well 