Witness your unhappy lives!" "Would to heaven you had been the friend of my girlhood!" It was all the reply Mrs.Dexter made, as she bowed her head, like one pressed down by a heavy burden.
"You will now comprehend, more clearly than before," said Mrs.De Lisle, "your present duty to your husband.

He thought that he was gaining a wife, and you, in wedding him promised to him to be a wife--promised with a deep conviction in your soul that the words were empty utterances.

The case is a sad one, viewed in any aspect; but pardon me for saying, that you were most to blame.

He was an ardent lover, whom you had fascinated; a man of superficial character, and not competent, at the time, to weigh the consequences of an act he was so eager to precipitate.

To possess, he imagined was to enjoy.