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84 CONSTANCY MISPLACED.
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•The Pastor Replied: " Dear Elise, I Wil...
beside Ms wife and rest his mind by pleasant conversation or enj can oyable exactl silence underst which and is . often When more at deli such ghtful a time to men his wife than broug women ht y
out her Greek dictionary , her Plato , or ner Plutarch , it was only an annoyance to him . cc Oh , my dear" he would say , _" please the let
there be no more study to-night ; if you really wish to read come classics sit I beside am sure me there and tell are me translations something enou pretty gh . ' to 7 s Elise atisfy would you ;
while then lay " Misunderstood past her books with sounded an offended again in air her and heart fetch and her knitting the wall ,
, deeper of separation shadow between over the them scantil grew y p hi lanted gher and garden higher of their , and domestic threw a
happ Ah iness it . miht have been so easily prevented if the Pastor had
only once , tried g with good humour to join in the studies of his wife ; he would soon have found that the office of teacher to a beloved ,
intelligent woman is something more animating and delightful than panions the dry routine of his schooldays of school , teaching shared hy ; and sl livel the y classics poetical , the spirit old , would
comhave become more precious to him ; and had she understood , with the quick perception of woman ' s love , the needs of her husband , had she been careful before all things to preserve intact the
comforts of the fireside , how easy would it have , been to her , gently and graduallto introduce the earnest spirits of the olden timeher
beloved poets y and writers , beside this fireside , and therewith to , add to its attractions
. the Each other , however . She , thou neglected ht" He this w loving ants to sacrific make e an to the er wishes servant of upp
of must me be ; I shut am good again enoug st g ine , h ;' for and that he , thou but g the ht , domain " I have of been intellect too
hasty , she has only a cold heart after all , and will never make a genial A housewife housewife — . this was another cause of separation . Most men
take day must things transform so readil the y for bride granted into a that perfect they housewife think the ; they marri think age
from time too li and g a htl wife y experience of the a fulfilment proficiency , but are of perhaps which what they can right confide onl in y the be to mai acquired her n . in expecting through
done desp Housek icable whatever eep to ing ascrib was had necessary e never much been importance , but Elise had ' s always to forte the ; considered small at home enjoyments she it very had
who and _dexDrivations was renowned of dail far y and life . near The as Pastor a first , however -rate housekeeper , son of a mother held
, the such matter was s in burned no light or esteem the , and lates was broken very much misfortunes annoyed which when
soup p , affected Elise very intended slightl to y fulfil the exalted her household mind of duties his wife , but . she lacked the
84 Constancy Misplaced.
84 CONSTANCY MISPLACED .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 84, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/12/
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