I don't think she cares a farthing for her husband; and he
seems to have his mind so full of grand business schemes as to have
no place left for the image of his wife. At least, so I read him."
"How has this matter affected their relation one to the other?"
"I have not seen them together since her return, and therefore
cannot speak from actual observation," she replied.
There was nothing very definite in all this, yet it revealed such an
utter abandonment of life's best hopes--such a desolation of love's
pleasant land--such a dark future for one who might have been so
nobly blest in a true marriage union, that I turned from the theme
with a sad heart.
CHAPTER XX.
Almost daily, while the pleasant fall weather lasted, did I meet the
handsome carriage of Mrs. Dewey; but I noticed that she went less
through the town, and oftener out into the country. And I also
noticed that she rode alone more frequently than she had been
accustomed to do. Formerly, one fashionable friend or another, who
felt it to be an honor to sit in the carriage of Mrs.
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