No: it must be done in dramatic style-for effect: her confidential--lawyer ?--doctor ?--butler! Perhaps to frighten me:--the boy she knew, and--poor soul! I don't mean to abuse her: but such conduct as this is downright brutal.

I laugh at it, I snap my fingers.
I can afford to despise it.

Only I do say it deserves to be called abominable.' 'Victor, has she used a threat ?' 'Am I brought to listen to any of her threats!--Funny thing, I 'm certain that woman never can think of me except as the boy she knew.

I saw her first when she was first a widow.

She would keep talking to me of the seductions of the metropolis--kept informing me I was a young man...