inquired about lace. For she went out in the morning with the
landlady to buy a veil, giving only four pounds for what she could
have bought in England for forty shillings!"



LECTURE XXVII--MRS. CAUDLE RETURNS TO HER NATIVE LAND. "UNMANLY
CRUELTY" OF CAUDLE, WHO HAS REFUSED "TO SMUGGLE A FEW THINGS" FOR HER



"There, it isn't often that I ask you to do anything for me, Mr.
Caudle, goodness knows! and when I do, I'm always refused--of course.
Oh yes! anybody but your own lawful wife. Every other husband aboard
the boat could behave like a husband--but I was left to shift for
myself. To be sure, that's nothing new; I always am. Every other
man, worthy to be called a man, could smuggle a few things for his
wife--but I might as well be alone in the world. Not one poor half-
dozen of silk stockings could you put in your hat for me; and
everybody else was rolled in lace, and I don't know what. Eh? What,
Mr. Caudle?

"WHAT DO I WANT WITH SILK STOCKINGS?

"Well--it's come to something now! There was a time, I believe, when
I had a foot--yes, and an ankle, too; but when once a woman's
married, she has nothing of the sort; of course. No: I'm NOT a
cherub, Mr. Caudle; don't say that. I know very well what I am.

"I dare say now, you'd have been delighted to smuggle for Miss