Afterwards

keeping up all Mr. Arkwright's subscriptions those three years. The work

if I were one of your devout women like poor Mrs. Tootle, who is really a good cr

ways depreciat

s if I were a saint You think me good, and so do the chapel people, I suppose, because I give to foreign missions

d the minister; "but I

s... a better husband to me than I was wife to him, and because it wou

nt, and set such a good example?" And it was plain the min

s because..

on smiled as one who

h we have quarrelled several times, and I have been very rude to you once or twice,

understand the reason, but I never doubted your friendship. If I w

lly?" Then her

you would go to some snuff

notice of her petulance. "You are honest, a

ou are, for all your knowledge and... other qualities. You for

lad you are not gentle,"-the minister was ve

r canonising? Do you know I feel immensely relieved; suppose we cel

rather important, would you mind, Mrs. Arkwright, givi

isitors, or the Nurses' Home, or the Children's Holiday, and

with the chapel. I wish to

e looked curi

. Arkwright committed you to m

was a... risky task, and I thought you were far too hasty, and just a little presumptuous, in un

wright made as though she would curtsey,-"but others mig

r desire your wealth, and... marry you, and your life be miserable.

had begun to freeze.

h things, but you know that I... wo

her eyes were fix

id not like was paying you attentions, and it might be, as I also heard, was

nd

liked by those who know him; personally we could never be friends, for various reasons, but he... is not unworthy to b

sk my hand, or do you propose to suggest this step to him, so as to complete your duty

, white and pained-"and I thought it would help you in that

would make them suffer for their words. Mr. Crashaw! and it was to that cynical, w

o you not see that I tried to do what was r

hould turn against me, and be content to see me Crashaw's wife or any other man's." And she drove the minister across the room in her

omen," he said, with proud humility. "I beg you

en she turned away. "If that is all you have t