10/77 "I have got my husband with me, and you are only a bachelor, sir." "How d'ye know that ?" "I think you'd ha' been softened down a bit, if you'd ever had a good wife." "Oh, it is because I speak loud. That is with bawling to my shepherds half a mile off. Now, young man, what is YOUR trouble ?" Henry started from his reverie, and looked astonished. What with this lady's husband, dead and buried in that there newspaper, and you, that sets brooding like a hen over one egg, it's a Quaker's meeting, or nearly. |