CHAPTER VI.
Thus was helped on an event which the conduct of the mutually-attracted ones had been generating for some time.
It is unnecessary to give details.

The -- -st Foot left for Bristol, and this precipitated their action.

After a week of hesitation she agreed to leave her home at Creston and meet Vannicock on the ridge hard by, and to accompany him to Bath, where he had secured lodgings for her, so that she would be only about a dozen miles from his quarters.
Accordingly, on the evening chosen, she laid on her dressing-table a note for her husband, running thus:- DEAR JACK--I am unable to endure this life any longer, and I have resolved to put an end to it.

I told you I should run away if you persisted in being a clergyman, and now I am doing it.

One cannot help one's nature.