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206 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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seemed , in relation to his better half , much like a hill of potatoes under a fondness spreading so app devoid le-tree of . conjugal Candace reverence held to him as with to excite a vehement the comments and patronising of her *
friends . , when " You she was must ordering remember him , about Candace at , a ' catechizing said a good ' deacon you oug to ht her to give one honor day ,
, to your husband ; the wife is the "weaker vessel . ' her " amp ' T & le e weaker corpulence vessel on ? the ' said small Candace , quiet , - man looking whom down she from had been the tower fledging of
with shining the bead amp - le eyes folds looked of a worsted much like comforter a blackbird , out of in which a nest his , — little ' X de head weaker and vessel ? Umph ! '
a day " A than whole was -woman given ' s- in rig that hts' sing convention le look could and word not . have Candace expressed considered more in a what husband troublesome as a thing specie to be s of taken petto care be of humoured , —a rather nursed inconsequent fedclothed and some and
-, , , , , buttons guided , in catching the way colds that , he wearing was to his go , best —an coat animal every that day was , and always getting losing on his of condescended Sunday hat in to a surreptitious it as mann her er inion for we that ek-day he was occasions a blessing ; but , she and often that express op
she didn't know what she should do if it wasn't for Cato . In fact , he seemed geticall to an supp object y ly in in her disapprobation life that . which She sometime we of are the told s conduct was is the heard great of one expressing want of her in woman sable herself friends ' s situation very , named ener , — -
several Jinny Stiles years , to who buy , that after of being her husband presented , but with became her afterwards own freedom so , disgusted worked with "' _Now her acquisition Jinny don that 't know she declared what she she ' s would talkin * ' neber about buy ' she anoder would nigger say . . '
, sometimes * S ' pose he does a ' n't coug he h better and ' keep n no her husband awake at ni all ghts ? , and A bod take y wouldn a little ' too t seem much to hab nuflin , to lib foref dey hadn't an ole man to look arter . Men is nate'll
, y foolish " And about Candace some after tings , this —but condescending dey ' s good deal remark better , ' would n nuffin lift . ' off with one hand a brass kettle in which poor Cato might have been drownedand ny
, across the kitchen , with it as if it were a feather . " Nor is it only in dealing" with , character that Mrs . Stowe is thus
felicitous . Noble thoughts and feelings—thoughts and feelings of the writer ' s own—not mere sentiments put into the mouths of others ,
stud these pages ; gems of purest water "worthy to find their setting in the hearts of all true men and women .
" There is no word in the English language more unceremoniously and the indefinitel word romance y kicked * and When cuffed Mr about . Smith , by or what Mr . Stubbs are called has sensible brought people wheel , than
every of life into such range and order that it is one steady , daily , grind , —when who they steps themselve round s have and round come into the the endlessl habits y turning and attitudes wheel of of the some patient machinery donkey , — ,
then they fancy that they have _gotten * the victory that overcometh the world . ' b ' them * All but thrown this into dead the grind one , and waste the cat dollars ch-all that ' and come labelled throug romance h the . mill Per , is
y he groun haps read there d out poetry was by , an when a time organ his in -grinder cheek Mr . Smith was in wet ' s the youth with street , — strange , he had remembers tears power , when to it set a now little his , — heart song when ,
vision beating !— and a pair bring of soft a mist eyes befor stirred _. e his him eyes strangel . Ah y , ; in a those little weak days he hand had was a
laid on his manhood , and it shook and trembled ; and then came all the hu-
206 Notices Of Books.
206 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/62/
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