Wife no. 19, or, the story of a life of bondage Rating :
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ... old days when he married her, and before God had vowed to "cleave to her only until death should them part." And he felt how bitter would be her sorrow, how justly indignant her feelings towards him, how intense her anger, and he did not dare to brave it all; so he stole quietly away to the Endowment House one day, leaving his true and confiding wife ill in her bed, and fresh from her sick room, took the blasphemous vows which claimed to bind him to another woman for time and for eternity. The first wife knew nothing of what had transpired until she was very delicately told by a kind neighbor, who, knowing that she must find it out sooner or later, thought it her duty to break the news to her as quietly as possible. She was almost maddened by the intelligence, and at first "GOD HELP ME IF IT'S TRUE!" 295 she utterly refused to believe it. It could not be possible that the husband of her youth, the man whom she had so loved and trusted, would betray her thus; would take advantage of her illness to skulk away and take another wife, and that, too, after all his repeated promises to her. "It can't be true," she cried, wringing her hands, and growing deadly pale. "It isn't true! I can't believe it. I won't believe it. O my God, help me if it is true. Tell me that it isn't; that you are mistaken." But no such assurance could be given her, and her friend tried in the gentlest manner to comfort her; but what consolation could she bring that would heal a shattered faith or bind up a broken heart? This story has had many, many repetitions since then, until now it has got to be "an old, old story often told." It was all very well for this man to take this step as a religious duty, if he had been sincere. But would he,...
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- Published on: 2012-05-17
- Original language:English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.53" h x7.32" w x.39" l,.72 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 178 pages
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