Esther! I am surprised at you.

Of what avail will be efforts at correction, if you counteract them in this way ?" Mrs.Howland never contended with her husband.

In all expressed differences of opinion, it was his habit to bear her down with an imperious will.

She was weak, and he was her strong tyrant.

Not a word more did she speak but returned to the dining-room, and replaced the food she had prepared for Andrew by simple bread and water.
The feelings of childhood never run for a long time in the same channel.