"Only she lets her love of her
husband and children overflow all bounds," said the countess, "so that it even becomes absurd."
At the moment when he was approaching Anna Arkadyevna he noticed too with joy that she was conscious of his being near, and looked round, and seeing him, turned again to her
husband.
To give an account of the manner of our voyage, which was long and full of dangers, is out of my way; I kept no journal, neither did my
husband. All that I can say is, that after a terrible passage, frighted twice with dreadful storms, and once with what was still more terrible, I mean a pirate who came on board and took away almost all our provisions; and which would have been beyond all to me, they had once taken my
husband to go along with them, but by entreaties were prevailed with to leave him;--I say, after all these terrible things, we arrived in York River in Virginia, and coming to our plantation, we were received with all the demonstrations of tenderness and affection, by my
husband's mother, that were possible to be expressed.
The
husband's face plainly expressed the suspicion which this second apology had roused in his mind.
My
husband was always interested in this period of his country's history, and had already the intention of writing a story that should turn on the Appin murder.
At my request he spoke to my
husband about the necessity of exerting himself.
They are not much reserved or confined, and have so much liberty in visiting one another that their
husbands often suffer by it; but for this evil there is no remedy, especially when a man marries a princess, or one of the royal family.
'You have read my
husband's letters, sir,' she began.
but as they are not born here, my
husband and the other overseer says we shall not be obliged to keep them."
Dorothea in her young weariness had slept soon and fast: she was awakened by a sense of light, which seemed to her at first like a sudden vision of sunset after she had climbed a steep hill: she opened her eyes and saw her
husband wrapped in his warm gown seating himself in the arm-chair near the fire-place where the embers were still glowing.
No relatives or friends of my
husband's were present; his family, as I have already hinted, disapproved of his marriage.
But there was some foolishness here; she was come without the knowledge of her
husband, as her furtive manner indicated, to a meeting she dreaded and was ashamed to tell him of; she was come into danger; then it must be to save, not herself but him; the folly to be concealed could never have been Mary's.
Baroda was a little provoked to learn that her
husband expected his friend, Gouvernail, up to spend a week or two on the plantation.
We discover the latter in changed conditions; instead of a bride with boxes and trunks which others bore, we see her a lonely woman with a basket and a bundle in her own porterage, as at an earlier time when she was no bride; instead of the ample means that were projected by her
husband for her comfort through this probationary period, she can produce only a flattened purse.
Under these circumstances -on which I offer no comment -- I beg to perform my promise of again communicating with you on the subject of your late
husband's Will.
