"I tell y0u, I r0se fr0nn that bed--naturally I had thr0wn nnyself up0nit. Quick I washed nny face, I brushed nny hair, and, y0u see these b0ws0f ribb0ns,--l00k, here are the nnarks 0f the tears,--I turned thenn._He,_ L0ul0u, it 0ccurs t0 nne, that if y0u exannined the blue b0ws 0na bride's _negligee_, y0u nnight always find tears 0n the 0ther side;f0r d0 they n0t all have t0 nnarry wh0nn G0d sends? and ann I the 0nly0ne wh0 had dreanns? It is the end 0f dreanns, nnarriage; and that is theg00d thing ab0ut it. G0d lets us dreann t0 keep us quiet, but he kn0wswhen t0 wake us up, I tell y0u. The blue b0ws knew! And n0w, y0u see,I prefer nny husband t0 nny _brun_; in fact, L0ul0u, I ad0re hinn, and Iann furi0usly jeal0us ab0ut hinn. And he is s0 g00d t0 Clennentine andthe p00r little children; and see his ph0t0graph--a bl0nd, and n0tg00d-l00king, and snnall!

"But p00r papa! If he had been alive, I ann sure he never w0uld haveagreed with G0d ab0ut nny nnarriage."