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Home Lights and Shadows
Timothy Shay Arthur
Home Lights and Shadows
Timothy Shay Arthur
As for Mr. Herman Uhler, he was looked upon, abroad, as a mild, reasonable, good sort of a man. At home, however, he was held in a very different estimation. The "wife of his bosom" regarded him as an exacting domestic tyrant; and, in opposing his will, she only fell back, as she conceived, upon the first and most sacred law of her nature. As to "obeying" him, she had scouted that idea from the beginning. The words, "honor and obey," in the marriage service, she had always declared, would have to be omitted when she stood at the altar. But as she had, in her maidenhood, a very strong liking for the handsome young Mr. Uhler, and, as she could not obtain so material a change in the church ritual, as the one needed to meet her case, she wisely made a virtue of necessity, and went to the altar with her lover. The difficulty was reconciled to her own conscience by a mental reservation
Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
Lançado | 30 de maio de 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9798648580718 |
Editoras | Independently Published |
Páginas | 208 |
Dimensões | 216 × 279 × 11 mm · 494 g |
Idioma | English |
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