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A SOCIAL MiTEOR. 227 Edith, ending up with the announcement that either she or I would leave the house. ‘“*You’ve been a different woman since she came here,’ I went on, ‘she seems to have an evil influence over you. I never could endure her anyway, as you well know, and now the time has come when she must leave.’ ““Don’t worry about that,’ retorted Edith, ‘she has no desire to stay where she’s not welcome, and she is going to-morrow morning.’ “And so she did; when I came down to break- fast her place was vacant. “T was delighted, for I thought we should then have a little peace, but alas! I deceived myself. Things went worse than before, and my troubles began in earnest. Edith became absolutely un- manageable; she took no pains to please me, but on the contrary, seemed to be trying her best to make me miserable, and she succeeded, admir- ably. We quarreled incessantly, and when she wasn’t calling me hard names or stamping her foot at me, she was sulking by herself. She wrote and received numberless letters, (the con- tents of which I was never permitted to see), vowing that her mother was her only correspond- ent. Oh! it was delightful, I assure you! At Eomicbooks (Ee)