tered par parenthése, "if I don't have vengeance for this! If the villain must disgrace the family, must he blazon it abroad to every lowbred knave of his acquaintance?—I beg your pardon, Mrs. Huntingdon. Well, they were talking of these things, and some of them remarked that, as she was separated from her husband, he might see her again when he pleased."
"'Thank you,' said he; 'I've had enough of her for the present: I'll not trouble to see her, unless she comes to me.'
"'Then what do you mean to do, Huntingdon, when we're gone?' said Ralph Hattersley. 'Do you mean to turn from the error of your ways, and be a good husband, a good father, and so forth—as I do, when I get shut of you and all these rollicking devils you call your friends? I think it's time; and your wife is fifty times too good for you, you know—'
"And he added some praise of you, which you would not thank me for repeating—nor
