"Then you no longer love me!" said the procurator's
wife, slowly and sadly.
Now, I am a fidgety little man, and always love to have something in my fingers; so that, being debarred from my
wife's curls, I looked about me for any other plaything.
Following this letter one of the Masonic Brothers whom Pierre respected less than the others forced his way in to see him and, turning the conversation upon Pierre's matrimonial affairs, by way of fraternal advice expressed the opinion that his severity to his
wife was wrong and that he was neglecting one of the first rules of Freemasonry by not forgiving the penitent.
Thus ended the last effort of the defense to trace the arsenic purchased by the prisoner to the possession of his
wife. The book relating the practices of the Styrian peasantry (found in the deceased lady's room) had been produced But could the book prove that she had asked her husband to buy arsenic for her?
Noel Vanstone to keep himself and his
wife in hiding are reasons which relate entirely to myself.
My
wife, however, took a great dislike to both mother and child, which she concealed from me till too late.
My four Sons and two orphan Grandchildren had retired to their several apartments; and my
wife alone remained with me to see the old Millennium out and the new one in.
When the fisherman went home to his
wife in the pigsty, he told her how he had caught a great fish, and how it had told him it was an enchanted prince, and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go again.
Among them there was a letter which had been written for us by my
wife's brother.
Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky--Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world-- woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning, not in his
wife's bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study.
The poor miller was much horrified by these tidings, and went in to his
wife with a heavy heart to tell her and his relations of the fatal bargain he had just struck with the nixy.
W.A.--Sir, you have set me about a work that has struck a dart though my very soul; I have been talking about God and religion to my
wife, in order, as you directed me, to make a Christian of her, and she has preached such a sermon to me as I shall never forget while I live.