He had at the same time to do justice to the lucidity she had at last attained, and it was doubtless by way of expression of this teachability that he let his eyes, for a minute, roll, as from the force of feeling, over the upper dusk of the room.

He had thought of the response his wife's words ideally implied.
"Decide to live--ah yes!--for her child." "Oh, bother her child!"-- and he had never felt so snubbed, for an exemplary view, as when Fanny now stopped short.

"To live, you poor dear, for her father--which is another pair of sleeves!" And Mrs.Assingham's whole ample, ornamented person irradiated, with this, the truth that had begun, under so much handling, to glow.

"Any idiot can do things for her child.

She'll have a motive more original, and we shall see how it will work her.