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He Knew He Was Right

CHAPTER IX
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But I cannot fly into a passion with an old gentleman for calling me by my Christian name, when he has done so habitually for years." From all this it will appear that the great godsend of a rich marriage, with all manner of attendant comforts, which had come in the way of the Rowley family as they were living at the Mandarins, had not turned out to be an unmixed blessing.

In the matter of the quarrel, as it had hitherto progressed, the husband had perhaps been more in the wrong than his wife; but the wife, in spite of all her promises of perfect obedience, had proved herself to be a woman very hard to manage.

Had she been earnest in her desire to please her lord and master in this matter of Colonel Osborne's visits,--to please him even after he had so vacillated in his own behests,--she might probably have so received the man as to have quelled all feeling of jealousy in her husband's bosom.

But instead of doing so she had told herself that as she was innocent, and as her innocence had been acknowledged, and as she had been specially instructed to receive this man whom she had before been specially instructed not to receive, she would now fall back exactly into her old manner with him.

She had told Colonel Osborne never to allude to that meeting in the park, and to ask no creature as to what had occasioned her conduct on that Sunday; thus having a mystery with him, which of course he understood as well as she did.


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