[The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoi]@TWC D-Link bookThe Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories CHAPTER I 8/26
And yet the first rule for the wife should be fear." The clerk looked at the lawyer, the lady, and myself, evidently repressing a smile, and all ready to deride or approve the merchant's words, according to the attitude of the others. "What fear ?" said the lady. "This fear,--the wife must fear her husband; that is what fear." "Oh, that, my little father, that is ended." "No, madam, that cannot end.
As she, Eve, the woman, was taken from man's ribs, so she will remain unto the end of the world," said the old man, shaking his head so triumphantly and so severely that the clerk, deciding that the victory was on his side, burst into a loud laugh. "Yes, you men think so," replied the lady, without surrendering, and turning toward us.
"You have given yourself liberty.
As for woman, you wish to keep her in the seraglio.
To you, everything is permissible.
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