her very heart she felt her great superiority
over herself.

"I will put her down, yet!" she said to herself, after another return,
through the Sea-flower, of "good for evil." "She shall yet feel my
power! and why Mr. Santon will persist in her staying with us, is more
than I can tell. But that is the way with these men! they will get
strange notions into their heads, which nobody can account for; even a
wife's wishes are looked upon as of little consequence, in comparison
with their lordly commands. I should not be surprised at any time if
Santon should withhold a favor from me to lavish upon her! But I'm
thinking that he will before long find out what I am made of, if he
thwarts my wishes. To be sure, his daughter has become attached to her,
but what of that? She must learn that she cannot have every whim
gratified; she is a spoiled child at best, and will not be likely to
improve under her skim-milk discipline. Leave me alone for managing
affairs. I've got the staff in my own hands, and all they can do wont
make me anything but the Honorable Mr. Santon's lady! though I'm greatly
mistaken if he don't look with evil eyes on the day that made me his
bride; but that's not of the slightest consequence, as I used to tell my
first husband. Poor fellow! I suppose I was rather hard upon him once in
a while; but I knew he was waiting patiently for the day which should
separate us. He little thought he would go first," and the woman
laughed aloud, as she thought how she had crept into the good graces of
her present husband. "Leave me alone for playing my part," she said, as
seated in her own apartment, she listened to the voice of Delwood in the
drawing-room. "It is evident that her very life is wrapt up in Mr.
Delwood, and it is really quite a pity that so fine a fellow should be
deceived; and lest she should follow my illustrious example, I might as
well interfere in their arrangements; and if I can see aright, she has
talked the enviable heiress into the belief that her brother is a very
paragon of perfection, for she knows right well that a good bag of money
would be no serious objection to his fishermanship. How they ever raised
two such likely looking specimens of humanity down there in the land of
whales, is a mystery; but they'll find they cannot take the precedence
with Boston gentry. If I can avail anything, my particular friend
Montague shall try his luck in securing that portion of the heiress's
estate which I shall