"It was a chance for me, certainly," returns the trooper half laughingly, half seriously, "but I shall never settle down into a respectable man now. Joe Pouch's widow might have done me good--there was something in her, and something of her--but I couldn't make up my mind to it. If I had had the luck to meet with such a wife as Mat found!"

"It was a chance for me, certainly," returns the trooper half laughingly, "but I shall never settle down into a respectable man now. If I had only had the luck to meet with such a wife as Mat found!"
