(Méprise) A dress of wool, black, worn in the early evening; it wraps around the body in the shape of a figure 3.

might pluck the fruits of love, devotion, and sacrifice?

Consider, my friend, what befell this poor husband when he despaired of drawing her out of her isolation. Was this his hope in life? Had he married to be wretched? Was this the beautiful nest he had built to sing in with his beloved? Were these the castles he had been building all those days, now plunging into the depths of the abyss?

Little by little he woke from his dreams and found the world dark before his face. He took to spending his days in forgetting himself, hoping to escape his cares and his pains, while she paid no heed to his gloom and his clouded brow — until at last his soul wearied of life, and he left that unhappy wife and returned to his town, broken in heart and in feeling, aged as though he were eighty, he who had not yet reached his fortieth spring.

Thus, my friend, did the days fold up the page of

Waked Sarofim from among us, and we heard noth-ing more of him, except to remember him with pity.

My friend finished telling her story, her eyes streaming with abundant tears of compassion for this despairing husband.

This is a story of what is acted out every day and every hour upon the stage of life. Have you profited by it — you who are all in the flower of youth and the blaze of feeling, awaiting the husband to come and dreaming of the happy, tranquil home? For you will make of life an immortal lyre upon whose strings two united hearts play, a father and a mother rewarded in little children who fill the happy home with mirth and gladness. And so I commend you to God's keeping — remember me with kindness and with thanks.

(Monte Cristo) A tailored suit of black wool, in which the collar is replaced by an innovation combining collar and scarf in one.