Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: hadn't. When things disagree with your husband, it generally ends with his disagreeing with you. At least that's my experience." " Then, Aunt Henrietta, you compile uncle's culinary Index- Expurgatorius quite as much for your own comfort as for his?" " More so. Very early in my married life I learned that there was less chance of violent political discussion and bitter religious arguments after semolina at lunch than after pastry and fancy sweets; so I gave orders that only plain pudding should be handed to your uncle, and fancy sweets to the visitors and me." " And he never found it out ? " " Of course not, my dear; how could he? He's a man. But it made the afternoons much pleasanter for everybody concerned." Kate was still harping on her one string. " Didn't you make pictures in your own mind about your future husband, mother darling?long before you'd ever seen or heard of papa, I mean? Didn't you make up a sort of fancy man, with eyes from one face and a mouth from another, and a nose that was entirely your own invention?" Lady Claverley leaned back in her chair, and turned over the page of a book upon her lap. It was Sunday; and her ladyship always made a point of keeping the Sabbath most strictly; this was part of a very excellent early training to which she loyally adhered, but which? with some unconscious humor?she modified and adapted to her natural desires and her modern use. For instance, she talked as incessantly and as generally on Sunday as on any other day; but she always did so with an openBible on her knee, the pages of which she turned over at intervals. This was her idea of searching the Scriptures. Further, she was very particular to always wear black upon a Sunday; she said she " considered black a very religious color." Her beliefs might be o...