Christmas at Thompson Hall #267477

Brown, when he married her, had been relieved from the necessity of earning his bread. Never theless, she had at once yielded to him when he expressed a desire to spend the winters of their life in the South Of France and he, though he was by disposition somewhat idle, and but little prone to the energetic occupations of life, would generally allow himself, at other periods Of the year, to be carried hither and thither by her, whose more robust nature de lighted in the excitement Of travelling. But on this occasion there had been a little difference between them.