33/37 I should have spoken long ago, but I knew not whether you--you--forgive me, Hatton, but there are such men. If I have slandered you in my thought, if I have done you this great wrong----" "Oh Doctor, the hope and despair of my married life has been--the longing for my sons and daughters." "Poor lad! And thee so good and kind to every little one, that comes in thy way. By heaven, I am thankful to be an old bachelor! Thou must try and understand, John, that women are never the same, and yet that in some great matters, what creation saw them, they are today. |