Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... II A WIFE'S SACRIFICE CHAPTER II "With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil." QEVERAL times during the evening meal Mary caught her husband looking at her in a puzzling way. Perhaps Ward himself would have hesitated if he had been asked to put into words the import of his glances. Heretofore he had looked at her as any husband might look at the wife he loved. To compare her with other women was a profanation not yet thought of, but he was trying now to see her through the eyes of other men. It was a hard test, but Mary stood it triumphantly. No one, he thought, had prettier eyes and hair and a prettier color in her cheeks. If there was anything she lacked, he concluded vaguely, it must be style, and that would be all right when she got some fine clothes. He was impatient to have his talk with Mary, to show her the kingdom into which he was about to enter and the glory that she would share with him. But the children must be rocked and sung to sleep before she could listen, so he took up an illustrated paper and prepared to pass the time by reading. "Woman as a Factor in Man's Political Life " was the title of the first article on which his eyes rested. It was one of those apposite occurrences which, when they bring us good fortune, we call special providences from a personal deity, and when they bring evil fortune, we charge to fate or the devil. Ward smiled at the coincidence and began to read. There was nothing new to him in the narrative, for his historical studies had been varied and thorough, but he found himself reading with a new interest the story of Andrew Jackson's marriage and the fierce chivalry with which he stood by his wife and fought political enemies who tried...
