I told him I should endeavour to see his wife. He de-
aired me to tell her that he was in health, and had brought
biroself to own to me what he had done, and that he should



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be pretty comfortable but for thinking how he had used her ;
bat he would try to make up for it one day. He was quite
cheerful when I left him.
The wife called on me the next day. She said she could
not stay long, as she was about to set off, with her children,
for a remote part of the country. It was a dreadful thing to
her to leave her husband's neighbourhood ; but she had been
deprived of the means of support by her work being taken
from her, and no resource remained but going to her father's
house. She was surprised, and seemed almost sorry (no
doubt from a jealousy for his reputation), that her husband
had acknowledged his offence. She said he had not ac-
knowledged it when he went in. I told her every particular
about his cell and employments, as well as his looks and
conversation, till, when I had done, she started up, saying
that she was forgetting her children, and her journey, and
everything. When we had parted she came back again
from the door to ask " one thing more ;" whether I thought
there would ever be anything in the world that she could do
for me. I thought it very possible in a world of change like
this, and promised to rely upon her if she could ever serve
me or mine.
She settled herself at her father's, and afler a while
drooped in spirits, and was sure something would happen.
