gnize as so like? 'T is evident
You half surmised the sweet original
Could be no other than myself, just now!
Your stop and start were flattering!"

"Of course
Caricature's allowed for in a sketch!
The longish nose becomes a foot in length,
The swarthy cheek gets copper-colored,--still,
Prominent beak and dark-hued skin are facts:
And '_parson's daughter_'--'_young man coachable_'--
'_Elderly party_'--'_four years since_'--were facts
To fasten on, a moment! Marriage, though--
That made the difference, I hope."

"All right!
I never married; wish I had--and then
Unwish it: people kill their wives, sometimes!
I hate my mistress, but I'm murder-free.
In your case, where's the grievance? You came last,
The earlier bird picked up the worm. Suppose
You, in the glory of your twenty-one,
Had happened to precede myself! 't is odds
But this gigantic juvenility,
This offering of a big arm's bony hand--
I'd rather shake than feel shake me, I know--
Had moved _my_ dainty mistress to admire
An altogether new Ideal--deem
Idolatry less due to life's decline
Productive of experience, powers mature
By dint of usage, the made man--no boy
That's all to make! I was the earlier bird--
And what I found, I let fall: what you missed
Who is the fool that blames you for?"

They become so deeply interested in this talk that the train is missed,
and, in the meantime, the lady who now lives in the neighborhood as the
wife of the hard-working country parson meets the young girl at the inn.
They are great friends and have come there, at the girl's invitation, to
talk over her prospective husband. She desires her friend to come to her
home and meet her fiance, but the lady, who is in constant fear of
meeting "Iago," never goes anywhere, and proposes a meeting with him at
the inn. While she waits, "Iago" comes in upon her. There is a terrible
scene of recrimination between these two, the man again daring to prefer
his love. The lady scorns him. Horror is added to horror when the young
man appears at the door, and recognizes the woman he really loves. His
faith in her and his love are shaken for a moment, but return
immediately and he stands her true friend and lover. The complete
despicableness of "Iago's" nature finally reveals itself in the lines he