Feltre's view of women sees the devilish or the angelical; and to most men women are knaves or ninnies.

Hence do we behold rascals or imbeciles in the offspring of most men.
He embraced the respected woman's character, with the usual effect:--to see with her sight; and she beheld a speckled creature of the intermittent whims and moods and spites; the universal Patron, whose ambition to be leader of his world made him handle foul brutes--corrupt and cause their damnation, they retort, with curses, in their pangs.
She was expected to pardon the husband, who had not abstained from his revenge on her for keeping him to the pledge of his word.

And what a revenge!--he had flung the world at her.

She is consequently to be the young bride she was on the memorable morning of the drive off these heights of Croridge down to thirty-acre meadow! It must be a saint to forgive such offences; and she is not one, she is deliciously not one, neither a Genevieve nor a Griselda.

He handed her the rod to chastise him.