19/21 'Do you believe him ?' he said to his brother William. In the first place, though I can understand from his antecedents and from his surroundings at the time, that he should have lived a loose sort of life when he was out there, I don't think that he is a rascal or even a liar.' 'One wouldn't wish to think so.' 'I do not think so. He doesn't look like it, or talk like it, or act like it.' 'How many cases do we know in which some abominable unexpected villainy has destroyed the happiness and respectability of a family ?' 'But what would you do ?' asked the barrister. 'She is married to him. If it be so, her misery is accomplished; but if it be so she should at once be taken away from him. |