Oh, leave off your nonsense; yet I know you will not do so, for it is the breath of your nostrils! I could have wished we should have parted in kindness, but you will not permit it.

I have deserved better at your hands than such treatment.

The whole time we have kept company together in this place, I have scarcely had one kind word from you, but the strangest.

.

." and here the voice of Belle was drowned in her sobs.
"I am sorry to see you take on so, dear Belle," said I.