Chapter

 1 I   |  neighbour, Mme. Rosemilly, the widow of a captain of a merchantman
 2 I   |         years before. The young widow—quite young, only three-and-twenty —
 3 I   |      return, finding the pretty widow quite at home in the house,
 4 I   |        them might win the young widow, for she was rich; but then
 5 I   |         as much to the pathetic widow as to the creatures he could
 6 I   | muttered to himself: “Well, the widow is taking root now, it would
 7 I   |       had spoken of her as “the widow.” The word, harmless in
 8 III |        argue for or against the widow and the orphan, and pocket
 9 III |     with his low opinion of the widow’s intellect; for, though
10 V   |     Jean, annoyed for the young widow, who, he thought, would
11 VI  |         and certainly the young widow attracted him greatly.~As
12 VII |     Cristi!” he exclaimed. “The widow looked very jaded this evening.
13 VII |      you ever again to say ‘the widow’ when you speak of Mme.
14 VII |     longer speak of her as ‘the widow.’ But you have taken a strange
15 VII |     first began to talk of ‘the widow’ because you knew it annoyed
16 VIII|         lady sitting by an open widow with a view of the sea,