He drank and she abhorred the habit.

She tried first moral suasion to induce him to abandon the habit, and once, in a moment of wifely and motherly indignation, she broke up one of his drinking parties in her house by trying the efficacy of a little physical suasion.

She turned the company out of doors and smashed the bottles of liquor.

This was not the kind of woman whom Abijah cared to live with as a wife.

He was not the sort of man whom the most romantic love could attach to the apron-strings of any woman.