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Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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, but you cannotsay it. Lavinia Scarrott laughed at me and I smiled thankfullyat her. Two tears, grotesquely small and thin considering thebroad expanse of her face, suddenly made their appear-ance and trickled slowly down and startled me. Dont cry, darling! she sobbed, although nothingwas farther from my mind. Dont weep. I know allabout everything. I have been in Washington two yearspainting portraits and you do not have to tell me a thing.I have seen Adam once or twice a week somewhere eversince soon after this mischief began. You can take myword for it, the thing will not last much longer. He lookslike a fiery devil now. They always take on that desperatemoral hue in the last stage of an affinity romance. Thedamnation shade of it breaks out on em like measles.The reaction to mother, home and family comes next.Its as simple as puking. You always do it when you havehad too much. I settled down upon the ground, stunned and fascinatedby the audacity of what she was saying. She drew her
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Men Have Less Courage Than the Most Timid Woman in Their Dealings With Wome immense bosom full of smoke, held it, exhaled it in ahorizontal whirlwind of blue vapor from the nostrils andwent on. Meanwhile, Ive come to help you hold a stiff upper lip.You are a great woman—Adam has told me about you—but Ive always had my doubts about your upper lip. Amarried woman doesnt get much chance to starch it.Her instinct to please her husband is a kind of matrimoniallimberness of the soul. Besides, married women do notunderstand marriage as well as those who have kept outof it. You are too much involved in it now to get theright eye-for-an-eye and tooth-for-a-tooth view of yourpredicament. All you have to do is to leave Adam alonefor a while. Let him feel his outer darkness and hellcome home seeking the light of your countenance. Theway to hold a husband sometimes is to let him go for awhile and then grip him in a new place. Adam told meabout the furniture bills. It took his breath away—did

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