Excerpt from Scribner's Monthly, 1870-1: An Illustrated Magazine for the People Then his tongue very artfully took a new tone He declared he was living as good as alone That his wife was an excellent woman, he knew, But her health wasn't good; and, the weaker she grew, Still the Closer She clung to her Chamber, of course. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.