“He took me knowing all, and we are quite happy; at least, I try to make him happy, but I can never forget that first awful disappointment. It rises like a specter at the very moment I think I have forgotten.”
TALE EIGHTEEN.
ONE WOMAN’S WAY.
“What men gain fairly—that they should possess,
And children may inherit idleness,
From him who earns it—this is understood;
Private injustice may be general good.
But he who gains by base and armed wrong,
Or guilty fraud, or base compliances,
May be despoiled even as a stolen dress