Go away for a space and give me time to miss you, and to reflect upon your goodness and virtue, which, continually present with me, I may, human-like, be apt to forget, as one, through use, grows indifferent to the blessing of the sun and the beauty of the moon.

Go away, and come back refreshed in mind and body, a brighter, better man--if that be possible--than when you went away." But even when we obtain our desires they never come to us garbed as we would wish.

To begin with, Ethelbertha did not seem to remark that I was irritable; I had to draw her attention to it.

I said: "You must forgive me, I'm not feeling quite myself to-night." She said: "Oh! I have not noticed anything different; what's the matter with you ?" "I can't tell you what it is," I said; "I've felt it coming on for weeks." "It's that whisky," said Ethelbertha.

"You never touch it except when we go to the Harris's.