You ought not to let him
quarrel with people. I know that he would listen to you.
He always did.
I write now especially because I have just received so
dreadful a letter from Mr. Kennedy! I would send it you
were it not that there are in it a few words which on his
behalf I shrink from showing even to you. It is full of
threats. He begins by quotations from the Scriptures, and
from the Prayer-Book, to show that a wife has no right to
leave her husband,--and then he goes on to the law. One
knows all that of course. And then he asks whether he ever
ill-used me? Was he ever false to me? Do I think, that
were I to choose to submit the matter to the iniquitous
practices of the present Divorce Court, I could prove
anything against him by which even that low earthly
judge would be justified in taking from him his marital
authority? And if not,--have I no conscience? Can I
reconcile it to myself to make his life utterly desolate
and wretched simply because duties which I took upon
myself at my marriage have become distasteful to me?
These questions would be very hard to answer, were there
not other questions that I could ask.
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