To fluff out her curls, put on fashionable dresses, and sing romantic songs to fascinate her
husband would have seemed as strange as to adorn herself to attract herself.
She glanced at her
husband to find out whether he knew Vronsky.
These passages were long before your time, and they give me no trouble at all now; nay, I look back on them with a particular satisfaction, as they have been a means to bring me to this place.' Then she went on to tell me how she very luckily fell into a good family, where, behaving herself well, and her mistress dying, her master married her, by whom she had my
husband and his sister, and that by her diligence and good management after her
husband's death, she had improved the plantations to such a degree as they then were, so that most of the estate was of her getting, not her
husband's, for she had been a widow upwards of sixteen years.
Her sense of the implied insult offered to her by the wives of her
husband's friends only showed itself in a trembling, a very slight trembling, of the hand that rested on my arm.
One day, while my
husband was busily at work, I sat beside him reading an old cookery book called The Compleat Housewife: or Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion.
Bapchild (to whom, in my distress, I wrote word privately of what had happened) wrote back in return, telling me to wait a little, and see whether my
husband did it again.
You have your
husband's letters to justify you; and you have also the significant fact that Lady Montbarry's maid did really leave the house.
Mr Partridge acted for some time on the defensive only; indeed he attempted only to guard his face with his hands; but as he found that his antagonist abated nothing of her rage, he thought he might, at least, endeavour to disarm her, or rather to confine her arms; in doing which her cap fell off in the struggle, and her hair being too short to reach her shoulders, erected itself on her head; her stays likewise, which were laced through one single hole at the bottom, burst open; and her breasts, which were much more redundant than her hair, hung down below her middle; her face was likewise marked with the blood of her
husband: her teeth gnashed with rage; and fire, such as sparkles from a smith's forge, darted from her eyes.
She had no presentiment that the power which her
husband wished to establish over her future action had relation to anything else than his work.
It was a consolation to me to feel the reassuring pressure of my
husband's hand.
Obstinate one, you saw the look on your
husband's face as he left you.
He had been her
husband's college friend; was now a journalist, and in no sense a society man or "a man about town," which were, perhaps, some of the reasons she had never met him.
As her
husband was a man of means, and had doubtless returned by this time, could she not send them the money?
You will find that the clause which devises the whole residue of your
husband's estate to Admiral Bartram ends in these terms: to be by him applied to such uses as he may think fit.
Grave natures, led by custom, and therefore constant, are commonly loving
husbands, as was said of Ulysses, vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati.
