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five thousand pounds at her father's death: he allows her the interest of it in the meantime, and I shall add two hundred a year to it. This, joined to your pay may, I think, with prudence and economy, enable you to live together in a very snug comfortable way.

Damn your snug comfortable ways of living! my soul abhors the idea of it. I'll pack up all I have in a napsack first, and join the wild Indians in America.—I wish I had been in the bottomless ocean ere I had come to this accursed place.

Have a little patience, Worshipton, and hear my plan for you. I'll pay your debts; you shall have the same income you had before, with more prudence perhaps to manage it well; and your wife shall live with her friends in the country.

No, but I'll live with mine own husband, for he knows well enough he is mine own husband. How can you use your wife so, Mr. Worshipton!