Ill: Keeping One's Place 



IT is a fortunate matter that my misalliance 

 with Touisset was contracted not with a per- 

 son, but a place. Had it been the former, I 

 should have proved an intolerable wife. Not un- 

 faithful, mind you. There have been at least 

 twelve summers to show how eagerly I make re- 

 turn to bed and board. But times there have been 

 when my fidelity was a discomfortable virtue, 



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