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Title: My opinions and Betsy Bobbet's. Designed as a beacon light, to guide women to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Holley, Marietta, 1836-1926
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Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : American Pub. Co., Toledo, O., W. E. Bliss
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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e a great many widows andunmarried wimmen in the world, what are they to do ? Let them take heed to these glorious and consol-ing words, It is matrimony, it is matrimonyThat is a womans speah. Shet up about your speahs, says I, gettin woreout, You may sing it Betsey Bobbet, and ministersmay preach it, and writers may orate about it, that itis womens only speah to marry, but what are yougoin to do ? Are you goin to compel men to marryall the wimmen off? says I, with a penetratinlook onto Betsey. I have seen wimmen that was williii to marry,but the men wasnt forthcomin, what are they to do?What are the wimmen to do whose faces are as humblyas a plate of cold greens ? Says I, in stern tones, Are men to be pursued like stricken dears by a madmob of humbly wimmen ? Is a woman to go out intothe street and collar a man and order him to marryher ? I am sick of this talk about its bein a womansonly speah to marry. If it is a womans only speahto marry, the Lord will provide her with a ma/ii, it
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TRUE MARRIAGE. 235 stands to reason hi will. One that will suit her too,one that will eonie jest as nateral lor her to leave allof the rest of the world and fuller, as for a siinllosvert.» toller on after the sun. One that she seems tobelong to, jest like North and South America, joined1)V nature unhekno\vn to them ever sense creation.Shell know him if she ever sees him, for their twohearts will suit each other jest like the two halves ofa pair of shears. These are the marriages that J leavensigns the certificates of, and this marryin for a home,or for fear of behv called a old maid, is no more mar-riage in the sight of (rod, no more true marriage,than the blush of a fashionable woman that is boughtfor ten cents an ounce and carried home in her pocket,is true modesty. Here was a pause, durin which Betsey quailed•some, and J then resumed again, in the same loftytones and 1 dont know but a little loftier, There isbut one thing that makes marriage pure and holy inthe sight of Guil. An

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