text: " This was oddly exemplified now (to return to their present position;) for as soon as her partial recovery had removed his alarm he grew cold and almost severe in his manner and broke forth-- "_So_ then Winifred would willingly pore over the love-letters of a sweetheart while under a husband's roof! She thinks this beauty enough for _him_--she would reserve her thoughts wishes every thing else for his old rival;--every thing but what a ring and a few words makes his right by law the poor husband is to leave to any old sweetheart that may come prowling round his gates! That's gross! Is it _not_ Winifred?" Alas! the heart-broken young woman had been meditating on far other issue to their brief attachment! On death!--death on her wedding-day as the only means of preserving at once her father's liberty and her own virtue; for her reading had taught her that marriage where the mind and heart were so wholly engaged elsewhere was no better than legalised prostitution