Heaven curse[618] her! It makes a man crazy to think
How these fair, smiling creatures will drag to the brink
Of destruction a poor, silly fool:—You are pale,
And no wonder; the blood leaves the heart at the tale.
But, mind you, the husband with eyes turned away—[619]
Unconscious—ha! ha! of what passed every day,—
To his own affairs kept, nor with her interfered;
She could manage her own; but the end was soon neared.
His money at last was all gone, and he then
Turned to her—to her love appealed,[620] but when