He lived with her for a season, and found another, without his dreams and sympathies and understandings, but with a will and a way.
I do not care to tell the story of it,--indeed, I do not know it,--but the man learned the old-fashioned lesson, which seems to hold good still, that for a really comfortable wedded life a little love, as a preliminary, is a good thing always--usually a requisite.

The woman lacked neither perception nor good sense.

It was she who proposed, since they were ill-mated, they should live apart, and he consented, with only such show of courtesy as might conceal his height of gladness.

There were money features to the arrangement made, and it was all dignified and thoughtful.

The world knew nothing of the agreement, though that generation of vipers, the relations of Mrs.
Grundy, wondered why Mr.Harlson's wife and he so lived apart, and if either of them were opium-eaters, or dangerous in insane moods.