If it be not wicked, do tell me whether I am to consider myself as a banished man.

I thought that our little meetings were so innocent,--and so pleasant! The green-eyed monster is of all monsters the most monstrous,--and the most unreasonable.

Pray let me have a line, if it be not forbidden.
Yours always heartily, F.O.
Putting aside all joking, I beg you to remember that I consider myself always entitled to be regarded by you as your most sincere friend.
When this was brought to Mrs.Trevelyan, about twelve o'clock in the day, she had already undergone the infliction of those words of wisdom which her husband had prepared for her, and which were threatened at the close of the last chapter.

Her husband had come up to her while she was yet in her bed-room, and had striven hard to prevail against her.

But his success had been very doubtful.