Poets may fable of such a will, that it makes the very heavens conform to it; or, I may add, what is almost equal thereto, one who would be a gentleman, to consent to be a tailor.

The only person who ever held in his course against Mrs.Mel, was Mel,--her husband; but, with him, she was under the physical fascination of her youth, and it never left her.

In her heart she barely blamed him.

What he did, she took among other inevitable matters.
The door closed upon Evan, and waiting at the foot, of the stairs a minute to hear how he was received, Mrs.Mel went to the kitchen and called the name of Dandy, which brought out an ill-built, low-browed, small man, in a baggy suit of black, who hopped up to her with a surly salute.

Dandy was a bird Mrs.Mel had herself brought down, and she had for him something of a sportsman's regard for his victim.