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. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...a poor man, all those traits in her which now seem contemptible would become virtues. Having married a rich man, and having assumed before the world to keep up the style of a fashionable lady in an elegant home, I don't admire her bread-and-cheese ways or her little tuppenny tricks one bit. If I had a husband ...
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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. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...a poor man, all those traits in her which now seem contemptible would become virtues. Having married a rich man, and having assumed before the world to keep up the style of a fashionable lady in an elegant home, I don't admire her bread-and-cheese ways or her little tuppenny tricks one bit. If I had a husband with three hundred thousand dollars (and I beg you not to believe that I want anything of the sort), if I had such a husband as Hatty's, and such a home, I would show my consort what money was good for. Instead of eating bread-and-cheese alone, I would have my friends to dinner, and give them a good dinner, every day in the week. Instead of spending my time chasing from shop to shop to get a yard of two-penny tape for one penny, I would buy books and read them, songs and sing them, pictures and enjoy them; and in every way I could, I would make my home a joy to every soul that came near it, even to the professional beggar-woman who makes her everlasting fortune going from basement door to door with a basket on her arm, and woe in her eyes--and who long ago learned the futility of rapping at Hatty's area-gate, you may be sure. Hatty hates beggars worse than Betsy Trotwood hated donkeys, and drives them off with much the same frantic indignation. As my lot now is, I wear my turned black silks with a light heart, and thank Heaven that by economies such as this and others equally legitimate we have been able to get a home which I love-far better than I should ever love Hatty's. I know a woman whose husband had, in the early days of their marriage, but one white duck suit; and it was in fact the only suit he owned which was not too heavy to wear during a long, hot summer. Now this nobly-proud woman washed, starched, and ironed that one duck suit...
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Very Good. pp.298 clean tight copy tanning to text pages and some freckles to endpapers, front and back pieces, brown cloth covers with gold gilt title, same on spine shows small tears, frays to top/bottom spines and corners, front cover small dents in near outer edge, some soiling to covers and some rubbing to extremites, bumped corners and top/bottom spines Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall.