But this humility proceeded from my heart: I respected my husband so much, that I always liked to suppose that he was superior to myself.

I had such a dread of seeing a shade over his countenance, he was so tenacious of his own opinions, that it was a long time before I ventured to contradict him.
To this labour I joined that of my house; and observing that his delicate health could not endure every kind of diet, I always prepared his meals with my own hands.

I remained with him four years at Amiens, and became there a mother and nurse.

We worked together at the _Encyclopedie Nouvelle_, in which the articles relative to commerce had been confided to him.

We only quitted this occupation for our walks in the vicinity of the town." Roland, dictatorial and exacting, had insisted from the beginning of their marriage, that his wife should refrain from seeing her young and attached friends whom she had loved in the convent, and who lived at Amiens.