The Eighth Year: A Vital Problem of Married LifeDevin-Adair Company, 1913 - 239 páginas |
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... domestic tragedy , by hundreds of sordid little dramas , that at this period in the partnership of husbands and wives there comes , in many cases , a great crisis , leading often to moral disaster . It is in the Eighth Year , or ...
... domestic tragedy , by hundreds of sordid little dramas , that at this period in the partnership of husbands and wives there comes , in many cases , a great crisis , leading often to moral disaster . It is in the Eighth Year , or ...
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... domestic drudgery . There were no foreign holidays then , only a week or two at the seaside once a year . There was precious little pocket money for the boys . They were conscious of their shabby gentility , and hated it . The modern ...
... domestic drudgery . There were no foreign holidays then , only a week or two at the seaside once a year . There was precious little pocket money for the boys . They were conscious of their shabby gentility , and hated it . The modern ...
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... domestic squalor of their parents ' early life . The hus- band cannot bear the thought that his wife should have to make beds in the morning and mend stockings in the evening , and wheel out a perambulator in the park . It is so very ...
... domestic squalor of their parents ' early life . The hus- band cannot bear the thought that his wife should have to make beds in the morning and mend stockings in the evening , and wheel out a perambulator in the park . It is so very ...
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... domestic unhappiness , as the origin of all quarrels between husbands and wives , as the greatest nuisance in modern life , and so long as he patters about the mother - in - law the audi- ence enjoys itself vastly . It is idle to ...
... domestic unhappiness , as the origin of all quarrels between husbands and wives , as the greatest nuisance in modern life , and so long as he patters about the mother - in - law the audi- ence enjoys itself vastly . It is idle to ...
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... domestic servants , with constant references to their young days , are a daily exasperation to young married women . All that is painfully true . In many cases the mother - in - law becomes so terrible an incubus in small households ...
... domestic servants , with constant references to their young days , are a daily exasperation to young married women . All that is painfully true . In many cases the mother - in - law becomes so terrible an incubus in small households ...
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Página 238 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king?
Página 159 - With this challenge she went out of the room and slammed the door behind her. Herbert breathed deeply, and after a moment's struggle in his soul spoke mildly. "Mother, go and pacify the fool, will you?
Página 12 - He had worshipped at the foot of the pedestal on which he had placed her in his ideals.
Página 43 - Why does she sink into long silences, sitting with her hands in her lap, staring at the pattern on the carpet, as though it had put a spell upon her?
Página 234 - Herbert, there was a young man and a young woman who loved each other very dearly.