The things we do!

But the widow has taken possession of Uncle James;
and she will carry off somebody else if I am not mistaken. Should you
like a stepmother, Mr. Clive, or should you prefer a wife?"
Whether the fair lady tried her wiles upon Colonel Newcome the present
writer has no certain means of ascertaining: but I think another image
occupied his heart: and this Circe tempted him no more than a score of
other enchantresses who had tried their spells upon him. If she tried she
failed. She was a very shrewd woman, quite frank in her talk when such
frankness suited her. She said to me, "Colonel Newcome has had some great
passion, once upon a time, I am sure of that, and has no more heart to
give away. The woman who had his must have been a very lucky woman:
though I daresay she did not value what she had; or did not live to enjoy
it--or--or something or other. You see tragedies in some people's faces.
I recollect when we were in Coventry Island--there was a chaplain there--
a very good man--a Mr.


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