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through her super-abundance of qualities to which he made no particular preten- sion. The heaviest load on his mind, after his conversation with the trader, lay in the foreseen necessity of breaking to his wife the arrangement contemplated,- meeting the importunities and opposition which he knew he should have reason to encounter. Mrs. Shelby, being entirely ignorant of her husband’s embarrassments, and knowing only the general kindliness of his temper, had been quite sincere in the entire incredulity with which she had met Eliza’s suspicions. In fact, she dis- missed the matter from her mind, without a second thought; and being occupied in preparations for an evening visit, it passed out of her thoughts entirely. |
