[The Home by Fredrika Bremer]@TWC D-Link bookThe Home CHAPTER VI 1/17
CHAPTER VI. HERO-DEEDS. On the following morning, as Judge Frank drew aside his window-curtains, the sun--the sun, so powerful in its beams and its silence--shone into his chamber, lighting it with its glorious splendour.
Those sunbeams went directly to his heart. "Dear Elise," said he, when his wife was awake, "I have a great deal to do to-day.
Perhaps it would be better if you would speak with Jacobi, and give him his lecture.
Ladies, in such circumstances, have more influence on men than we men can have.
Besides this, what can be bent must not be broken.
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