saved it out of the puddings. But it's always the woman who saves
who's despised. It's only your fine-lady wives who're properly
thought of. If I was to ruin you, Caudle, then you'd think something
of me.

"I sha'n't go to sleep. It's very well for you, who're no sooner in
bed than you're fast as a church; but I can't sleep in that way.
It's my mind keeps me awake. And after all, I do feel so happy to-
night, it's very hard I can't enjoy my thoughts.

"NO: I CAN'T THINK IN SILENCE!

"There's much enjoyment in that, to be sure! I've no doubt now you
could listen to Miss Prettyman--oh, I don't care, I will speak. It
was a little more than odd, I think, that she should be on the jetty
when the boat came in. Ha! she'd been looking for you all the
morning with a telescope, I've no doubt--she's bold enough for
anything. And then how she sneered and giggled when she saw me,--and
said 'how fat I'd got:' like her impudence, I think. What?

"WELL SHE MIGHT?

"But I know what she wanted; yes--she'd have liked to have had me
searched. She laughed on purpose.

"I only wish I'd taken two of the dear girls with me. What things I
could have stitched about 'em! No--I'm not ashamed of myself to make
my innocent children smugglers: the more innocent they looked, the
better; but there you are with what you call your principles again;
as if it wasn't given to everybody by nature to smuggle. I'm sure of