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made for the rod, more than against anything 

 else. " She was quite sure," she said, " that she 

 could have made a much better bag herself, for 

 the work in it was horrorble, and it was not 

 made in the right form ; and any one but a fool 

 might see that the stuff too was as coarse as a 

 hopsack, and could not have cost above three- 

 i a pence, and if she had been going to give 

 away anything, it should have been something 

 better than that." But the truth was, the 

 green-eyed monster was raging within her 

 gentle bosom ; she was jealous of Mrs. Big- 

 ings's kindness, not knowing her motive for it. 

 How foolish many weak-minded women are ! 

 how jealous, frequently, without any reason ! 

 And the moment they are so, they just employ 

 the very worst means to accomplish their end. 

 They want the whole of the love of the object 

 of their affection, but they scold and threaten, 

 rant and rave, and do everything and anything 

 that is calculated to weaken his regard. They 

 want him to have no regard for the object of 

 their jealousy, yet if she be in their power, they 

 will persecute and torture her upon every pos- 

 sible occasion, so that if the man never had one 

 atom of regard for her in his life, he must feel 

 some sympathy for her, seeing that for his 

 sake she is thus made to suffer. It is thus 



