A man wants a wife as 'e can respect--some one as is a cut above 'imself, as will raise 'im up a peg or two--some one as 'e can look up to and worship.

A man's wife orter be to 'im a gawddess--a hangel, a--' "'You appear to have met the lady,' I remarked, interrupting him.
"He blushed scarlet, and became suddenly absorbed in the pattern of the carpet.

But the next moment he looked up again, and his face seemed literally transformed.
"'Oh! Mr.MacShaughnassy,' he burst out, with a ring of genuine manliness in his voice, 'you don't know 'ow good, 'ow beautiful she is.

I ain't fit to breathe 'er name in my thoughts.

An' she's so clever.