But he
has come and gone. And I have done with him!'
'Oh!--Well, I think he has got off pretty easy,' said Tackleton,
taking a chair.
The sneer was lost upon the Carrier, who sat down too, and shaded
his face with his hand, for some little time, before proceeding.
'You showed me last night,' he said at length, 'my wife; my wife
that I love; secretly--'
'And tenderly,' insinuated Tackleton.
'Conniving at that man's disguise, and giving him opportunities of
meeting her alone. I think there's no sight I wouldn't have rather
seen than that. I think there's no man in the world I wouldn't
have rather had to show it me.'
'I confess to having had my suspicions always,' said Tackleton.
'And that has made me objectionable here, I know.'
'But as you did show it me,' pursued the Carrier, not minding him;
'and as you saw her, my wife, my wife that I love'--his voice, and
eye, and hand, grew steadier and firmer as he repeated these words:
evidently in pursuance of a steadfast purpose--'as you saw her at
this disadvantage, it is right and just that you should also see
with my eyes, and look into my breast, and know what my mind is,
upon the subject.
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