If you keep quiet, we may reach the barge.
If not, we shall reach the bottom of the canal." He carried her safely over, and exchanged some friendly words with the bargee.

Then he took Henrietta forward, and stood watching the water as they were borne along noiselessly between the hilly pastures of the country.
"This would be a fairy journey," he said, "if one could forget the woman down below, cooking her husband's dinner in a stifling hole about as big as your wardrobe, and--" "Oh, don't talk any more of these things," she said crossly; "I cannot help them.

I have my own troubles to think of.

HER husband lives with her." "She will change places with you, my dear, if you make her the offer." She had no answer ready.

After a pause he began to speak poetically of the scenery and to offer her loverlike speeches and compliments.