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 poor dear first was not a man to grieve for long. Eh, dear! we all have our faults, and he certainly had a good many. And somehow I was not very happy with him, but it is all made up to me now, and perhaps he meant well."

If so, he had certainly failed singularly in acting up to his intentions, for he had treated his young wife brutally; and as there is no reason to suppose that the fall from his tandem, which terminated his dissipated life was a voluntary act, or in any way meant as a kind attention, or an atonement—it was charitable of Mrs. Hopkinson to endow him with even a limited amount of well meaning.