Basswood books

As one little stone in
your own shoe or your horse's, suffices to put either to torture and to
make your journey miserable, so in life a little obstacle is sufficient
to obstruct your entire progress, and subject you to endless annoyance
and disquiet. Who would have guessed that such a smiling little fairy as
Blanche Amory could be the cause of discord in any family?
"I say, Strong," one day the Baronet said, as the pair were conversing
after dinner over the billiard-table, and that great unbosomer of
secrets, a cigar; "I say, Strong, I wish to the doose your wife was
dead."
"So do I. That's a cannon, by Jove. But she won't; she'll live for ever--
you see if she don't. Why do you wish her off the hooks, Frank, my boy?"
asked Captain Strong.
"Because then you might marry Missy. She ain't bad-looking. She'll have
ten thousand, and that's a good bit of money for such a poor old devil as
you," drawled out the other gentleman.
"And gad, Strong, I hate her worse and worse every day. I can't stand
her, Strong, by gad, I can't.


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