know why you can't abide earrings now: Miss Prettyman doesn't wear
'em; she would--I've no doubt--if she could only get 'em. Yes, it's
Miss Prettyman who -

"There, Caudle, now be quiet, and I'll say no more about pet's ears
at present. We'll talk when you're reasonable. I don't want to put
you out of temper, goodness knows! And so, love, about the cottage?
What?

"'TWILL BE SO FAR FROM BUSINESS?

"But it needn't be far, dearest. Quite a nice distance; so that on
your late nights you may always be at home, have your supper, get to
bed, and all by eleven. Eh,--sweet one?"


"I don't know what I answered," says Caudle, "but I know this: in
less than a fortnight I found myself in a sort of a green bird-cage
of a house, which my wife--gentle satirist--insisted upon calling
'The Turtle Dovery.'"



LECTURE XXX--MRS. CAUDLE COMPLAINS OF THE "TURTLE DOVERY." DISCOVERS
BLACK-BEETLES. THINKS IT "NOTHING BUT RIGHT" THAT CAUDLE SHOULD SET
UP A CHAISE



"Tush! You'd never have got me into this wilderness of a place, Mr.