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Rh He used to vow two wax tapers to Santo Januario, to save a poor quiet trader from such wild doings, and then double the offering lest he should be taken at his word. To his wife he was the most amiable of husbands: he was not very fond of contradicting any body—he never dreamed of contradicting her. In youth he never noticed her flirtations—in age he never controlled her expenses. Could mortal obedience go farther? Signora Caterina thought it could. Weak, yet cunning—vain, yet conscious of having outlived her attractions—with one of those tempers which we conceive to be the true interpretation of the old fairy tale, where out of the mouth of the party proceeded snakes, toads, locusts, and other pleasantries. Almost desperate for want of a complaint—nerves were not known at Naples—Caterina had a bilious fever—"some demon whispered, have a taste" for jealousy. She recovered on the instant, and jealousy was henceforth the business and the pleasure of her life. The jealousy founded on the affections is torture—that on the temper is enjoyment:—