Lucia Darro's husband was never jilted by Laura Magot, for the impetuous and ambitious young man who was engaged to that lady is an entirely different person from my husband.

Do you hear, Sir ?" "Precisely; and who made him so entirely different ?" "Hush, Sir! I've no time to hear such folly.

I, too, am going to make a clean breast of it, and confess that there was the least little sense of--of--of--well, justice, in my mind, when I thought that Laura Magot who jilted you, who were so unfortunate, and with whom she might have been so happy--" Gerald Bennet dissented, with smiles and shaking head.
"Hush, Sir! Any woman might have been.

That she should have led such a life with Boniface Newt, and have seen him ruined after all.

Poor soul! poor soul!" "Which ?" asked her husband.
"Both--both, Sir.