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The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)

CHAPTER XVII
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In that way I have prevented him from feeling that he must side with them against me.

He comes to me often with the story of some difference he has had with his mother, and he talks freely of his sister's failings and his brother's inconsistencies.

He even sometimes gets righteously indignant, and fairly sputters.

Inwardly, I chuckle with amusement, and outwardly I appear sympathetic, but never a word do I say to commit myself.

It is his family, and if there is a row, I, to quote Young America, 'am not in it.'" I happen to know that this woman's husband's family think that "Charlie has a none-such of a wife," and that they are all fond of her.
If tact and diplomacy are ever exercised, it must be in the management of relations-in-law.


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