ere alone I asked him how her eccentricities affected him; he
could not but consider her violent, prejudiced, warped, and whimsical.
I told him that I had been taught to accept all that she did on this
basis. Would this explain to him my silence in regard to her?

"Can you endure to live with her in Bond Street for the present, or
would you rather return to Waterbury?"

"She desires my company while she is in Newport only. I have never been
with her so long before."

"I understand her. Law is a game, in her estimation, in which cheating
can as easily be carried on as at cards."

"Her soul is in this case."

"Her soul is not too large for it. Will you ride this afternoon?"

I promised, of course. From that time till he left Newport we saw each
other every day, and though I found little opportunity to express my own
peculiar feelings, he comprehended many of my wishes, and all my
tastes. I grew fond of him hourly. Had I not reason? Never was friend so
considerate, never was lover more devoted.

When he had been gone a few days, Aunt Eliza declared that she was ready
to depart from Newport. The rose-colored days were ended! In two days we
were on the Sound, coach, horses, servants, and ourselves.

It was the 1st of September when we arrived in Bond Street. A week from
that date Samuel Uxbridge, the senior partner of Uxbridge Brothers, went
to Europe with his family, and I went to Waterbury, accompanied by Mr.
Uxbridge. He consulted mother in regard to our marriage, and appointed
it in November. In October Aunt Eliza sent for me to come back to Bond
Street and spend a week. She had some fine marking to do, she wrote.
While there I noticed a restlessness in her which I had never before
observed, and conferred with Mrs. Roll on the matter. "She do be awake
nights a deal, and that's the reason," Mrs. Roll said. Her manner was
the same in other respects. She said she would not give me any thing for
my wedding outfit, but she paid my fare from Waterbury and back.

She could not spare me to go out, she told Mr. Uxbridge, and in
consequence I saw little of him while there.

In November we were married. Aunt Eliza was not at the wedding, which
was a quiet one. Mr. Uxbridge desired me to remain in Waterbury till
spring. He would not decide about taking a house in New York till then;
by that time his brother might return, and if possible we would go to
Europe for a few months. I acquiesced in all his plans. Indeed I was not