MY BRIDE! WHAT BRIDE? I HAVE NO BRIDE!

TO LIVE, FOR ME, JANE, IS TO STAND ON A CRATER-CRUST WHICH MAY CRACK AND SPUE FIRE ANY DAY.
AM I HIDEOUS, JANE? Very, sir: you always were, you know. HUMPH! THE WICKEDNESS HAS NOT BEEN TAKEN OUT OF YOU, WHEREVER YOU HAVE SOJOURNED. Yet I have been with good people; far better than you: a hundred times better people; possessed of ideas and views you never entertained in your life: quite more refined and exalted. WHO THE DEUCE HAVE YOU BEEN WITH? If you twist in that way you will make me pull the hair out of your head; and then I think you will cease to entertain doubts of my substantiality. WHO HAVE YOU BEEN WITH, JANE? You shall not get it out of me to-night, sir; you must wait till to-morrow; to leave my tale half told, will, you know, be a sort of security that I shall appear at your breakfast table to finish it.  By the bye, I must mind not to rise on your hearth with only a glass of water then: I must bring an egg at the least, to say nothing of fried ham. YOU MOCKING CHANGELING—FAIRY-BORN AND HUMAN-BRED! YOU MAKE ME FEEL AS I HAVE NOT FELT THESE TWELVE MONTHS. IF SAUL COULD HAVE HAD YOU FOR HIS DAVID, THE EVIL SPIRIT WOULD HAVE BEEN EXORCISED WITHOUT THE AID OF THE HARP.

AM I HIDEOUS, JANE?

Very, sir: you always were, you know.

HUMPH! THE WICKEDNESS HAS NOT BEEN TAKEN OUT OF YOU, WHEREVER YOU HAVE SOJOURNED.

Yet I have been with good people; far better than you: a hundred times better people; possessed of ideas and views you never entertained in your life: quite more refined and exalted.

WHO THE DEUCE HAVE YOU BEEN WITH?

If you twist in that way you will make me pull the hair out of your head; and then I think you will cease to entertain doubts of my substantiality.

WHO HAVE YOU BEEN WITH, JANE?

You shall not get it out of me to-night, sir; you must wait till to-morrow; to leave my tale half told, will, you know, be a sort of security that I shall appear at your breakfast table to finish it.  By the bye, I must mind not to rise on your hearth with only a glass of water then: I must bring an egg at the least, to say nothing of fried ham.

YOU MOCKING CHANGELING—FAIRY-BORN AND HUMAN-BRED! YOU MAKE ME FEEL AS I HAVE NOT FELT THESE TWELVE MONTHS. IF SAUL COULD HAVE HAD YOU FOR HIS DAVID, THE EVIL SPIRIT WOULD HAVE BEEN EXORCISED WITHOUT THE AID OF THE HARP.

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