With this friendless, grateful, unassuming protegee of mine for a wife, I would be as little bound as might be.

She would ask nothing, and I need give nothing, beyond a home and the common attentions required of a gentleman and a friend.

Then she was not disagreeable, nor was her beauty of a type to suggest the charms of her I had lost.

None of the graces of the haughty patrician lady whose lightest gesture was a command, would appear in this humble girl, to mock and constrain me.

No, I should have a fair wife and an obedient one, but no vulgarized shadow of Evelyn, thank God, or of any of her fashionably dressed friends.
"Advanced thus far towards the end, I went to see Luttra.