In some old magazine or newspaper I recollect a story, told as truth, of a man-- let us call him Wakefield--who absented himself for a long time from his wife. The fact, thus abstractedly stated, is not very uncommon, nor--without a proper distinction of circumstances--to be condemned either as naughty or nonsensical, Howbett , this, though far from the most aggravated, is perhaps the strangest instance on record of marital delinquency ; and, moreover, as remarkablea freak as may be tbund in the whole list of human oddities.
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