Chapter 25 - THE OLD GOOSE FINDS A YOUNG GANDER.

We will suppose some months to have elapsed in this manner-months, to me, of prolonged torture and suspicion. Circumstances, like petty billows of the sea, kept chafing upon the low places of my heart, keeping alive the feverish irritation which had already done so much toward destroying my peace, and overthrowing the guardian outposts of my pride