CHAPTER XXII.  “Nous câusames longtemps; elle était simple et bonne.Ne sachant pas le mal, elle faisait le bien;Des richesses du coeur elle me fit l’aumône,Et tout en écoutant comme le coeur se donne,Sans oser y penser je lui donnai le mien;Elle emporta ma vie, et n’en sut jamais rien.”—ALFRED DE MUSSET. Will Ladislaw was delightfully agreeable at dinner the next day, and gave no opportunity for Mr. Casaubon to show disapprobation. On the contrary it seemed to Dorothea that Will had a happier way of drawing her husband into conversation and of deferentially listening to him than she had ever