The air was sharp and bracing, and the leaves which had taken their autumnal tints were falling from the trees. I knew it was in vain to cry 'murder!' in the Mint, so I had recourse to stratagem. Wood had the advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special recommendation in female eyes. ’ ‘His daughter, ma’am?’ Gerald asked. “No,” said her brother, conclusively, “it’s not for a parent to go on persuading a child. Strongly impregnated with the mingled odours of tobacco, ale, brandy, and other liquors, the atmosphere was almost stifling. And this is not France, you understand. To her mind, recalling the picture of him the night before, there had been something tragic in the grim silent manner of his tippling. O'Higgins made it positive; but it required five weeks of broken voyages: with dilapidated hotels, poor food, poor tobacco, and evil-smelling tramps. How to hold her, how to keep her at his side; this was the problem with which he struggled. ’ ‘Perfectly correct, my boy.
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