She realised the urgent need to get away, to escape from Morningside, and from her husband and this life which had grown so painful to her.
Prudence is better suited to a serious-minded husbandthan you are, Rose, in everything but years," old Mrs Morgan retorted.
After all, a wife needs something more from her husband than board and lodging; she has a right to his confidence and companionship.
And this same man, towards the end of the book, watches how the truest woman in the place, the one whom he admires more than all the rest, his own cousin and a mother, calmly throws her legitimate husband over a cliff.
Browning tends to exaggerate the beauty of that virtue, as already we have seen in Pompilia; and assuredly this husband has, like her, the defect of his quality.
The girl is silent as she is pale, and she is so pale that the first words her husband speaks are as the utterance of a fear awakened by her aspect-- "Do not die, Phene!
While still she struggles with her sob, she sees, at the gate, her husband with his two boys, and at once is able to go on.
That he has pursued his wonted way of life, and that she has married lovelessly (for a husband who plays whist is, by the unwritten law of romance, a husband who can by no possibility be loved!
Already that faultless husbandis planning to be crushingly right on the Day of Judgment.
But if she could have engraved, immutable, on her soul, the hours in which her husband loved her.
She and her husband are but foreigners; they are "uninstructed"; the born and bred Athenian needs must smile at them, if he do not think a frown more fitting for such ignorance.
We learn the mournful story from the wife's lips only; the husband never speaks, and is but once present.
To Gottlieb that gaze of the young, rapturous husbandis torture.
For the husband might die, and he, still young and vigorous, might try again to win her.
Some say the husbanddecamped without paying his host, doctors, and nurses.
This stone is erected by her disconsolate Husbandin whose arms she sighed out her last breath, and who under God did his utmost to sooth the cold, dull hour of death.
The husband proved himself devoted and fairly daft with anxiety, and 'twas said rarely left the bedside.
At the death of the husband a real Victorian Virginia lady simply went to bed and awaited death.
This excellent wife took her Presbyterian husband into the Established Church and we find Washington crediting him with £33 for pew No.
When you get home, your husband will give you a jacketing until you can stand no more.
The case was one in which the husband wanted a divorce and the wife not.
I have been told that Queen Augusta implored her husband with tears, before his departure from Ems to Berlin, to bear in mind Jena and Tilsit and avert war.
The evangelical ministers had taught that the law of celibacy was of merely human origin, imposed by Roman pontiffs in opposition to the Word of God, which, when describing a true bishop, represents him as a husband and father.
Who feared that Christ would not use you as a husband so advantageously in the ministry of his Word.
The husband went to Lucerne and taking advantage of the priest's absence brought away his wife.
It is true that I am married to you," said she, "but never shall you be my husband until you are king.
One time there was enough and plenty in the house; but now, since my husband has gone and I am left all alone, it is little I have to eat and drink.
You were sent hither from heaven to be my husband, and my husband you shall be.
Mrs. Lynch had helped Mrs. Riley care for her husband and had grown very fond of the plucky little woman.
His sister's husband had all sorts of new-fangled machinery for plowing and seeding, and for his reaping!
In the words of a woman belonging to the Bonne-Novelle section: "My husband has been in prison four months.
In effect, the next day, her husband is shot, and buried in the avenue.
He sends the poor woman away and keeps her husband locked up.
Both had been very fond of chess, in former days: and the husband bade his wife put away her work, and try a game of chess.
It can only husband a man's powers for his ordinary duties, and not of itself prepare him for the great crises of life.
This is not the place for a speculation as to whether women are to grow into a condition of self-maintenance, and their dependence for support upon father, brother and husband to become only occasional.
Without pausing for reply, he passed on and seated himself on the throne, while Isabel and herhusband took possession of the state chairs on either hand.
Maiden, I lost my husband at the battle of St. Alban's, and my three sons in the field of Towton.
According to some of the French chroniclers, the Prince of Wales, who was one of the handsomest and most accomplished princes in Europe, was very desirous of becoming the husband of Anne Nevile," etc.
Ever in pursuit of some new face, his schemes and counterschemes were limited to cheat a husband or deceive a wife; and dexterous and successful no doubt they were.
Not so herhusband and son, the Lords Rivers and Scales, to whom the news soon travelled.
I cannot reward thy husbandas I would; I cannot give thee, as I had hoped, a throne!
Nevile's husband and a Warwick's son--what can the saints do more for men?
What Yorkist who hath fought at Towton or St. Albans under Lord Warwick's standard, will lift sword against thehusband of Lord Warwick's daughter?
She governeth her household well, And eateth not of idle bread, Her husband gives the praise she earns, Her children bless her worthy head.
No matter what herhusband told her he said, or anybody else said, she could not repeat the words there under oath.
Now I will ask you, Mrs. Chase, whether your husband and this defendant, Joe Newbolt, ever had words in your hearing?
In a moment she heard the sleeper's bed squeaking in its rickety old joints as her husband shook him and cut short his snore in the middle of a long flourish.
When she heard her husband make this positive declaration, her mouth fell open and her eyes widened in surprise.
Ollie noticed her husband more than once during the meal measuring Joe's capabilities for future strength with calculating, satisfied eyes.
Ollie stood there, her hands clenched at her sides, no stirring of pity in her heart for her husband with the stain of blood upon his harsh, gray beard.
And now, Mrs. Greening, I will ask you if at any time your husband ever told you what was said, if anything, by any party inside of that house when he run up to the kitchen door that night and knocked?
Where did your husband keep his money in the house?
What could you do with all the chances in the world, you and him--what did your husband ever do with his chances?
You were in bed and asleep when the shot that killed your husband was fired, you have told the jury, Mrs. Chase?
Mrs. Greening had not been present when her husband knocked on the door of Isom Chase's kitchen that night; she did not know, therefore, of her own experience what was spoken.
That's what you heard Joe Newbolt say to yourhusband up there in the loft over your head?
The wife of a Russian striker had herhusband arrested because he had burned her clothes in order to prevent her returning to the mill.
A woman whose husband held a high official position, thus acquired a craving for alcohol and became a confirmed drinker.
Her doctor and her husband had persisted in working her fall in spite of her own strongest convictions.
Her children are in an asylum, and her husband is a wanderer in the West.
Her husband died, and for a time she pulled up and trained as a hospital nurse; but temptation prevailed, and she fell from bad to worse.
The husband was still left sole judge of his wife's fitness or unfitness for him, and whether he should exercise his right of putting her away was a matter finally for his private conscience.
Her husband was Arthur Jones, 2nd Viscount Ranelagh in the Irish peerage; but that was not her chief distinction.
She looked at her husbandas she asked the question.
She was just tossing her shoe over the curtain so her husband might have something to throw at the bear, and, as it happened, she hit the bear by accident.
Mrs. Brown, as she saw her husbandsit down in the easy chair, with Bunny and Sue.
Her husband had crept into a hole close by her, and was presently fast asleep, with his head under his wing.
We believed that they grew to a comfortable old age, and then died a natural death; and however that may be, it is true enough that neither Selina nor her husband could ever bear to part with them.
Queen Leonora laughed at her husband for the strange reluctance that he showed to part with Fernando.
You know me; such a husband I can not, I must not be.
My husband knows that we had longed to have an estate in France.
I thought of another thing; I thought, 'He who will be my husband must be some one I can love!
He prayed God to bless Mrs. Scott in her children, and to give to Miss Percival a husband after her own heart.
In the telegram my husband does not mention the sum.
Her existence might have been tolerable, if she had not loved her husband so much; but she loved him too much.
But in spite of that, is he really a suitable husband for you?
To be the husband of a woman possessing boundless wealth, that is my destiny.
I have always thought, 'I wish, above all things, that my husband should be worthy of sharing this great fortune.
My husband is a Protestant, but he allows me complete liberty, and my two children are Catholics.
Her husband said that he had received a letter saying she was dead, and, though he had lost it, he quoted it at length "as far as he could remember it.
She said a telegram had been sent to her husband saying she was dangerously ill in February.
She gave birth to an only daughter: and when that child had attained her fourteenth year, her husband suddenly, and seemingly without cause, put an end to his existence.
With the mingled selfishness and sentiment of age, she would not come to London,--she would not move from the village where her husband lay buried, where her youth had been spent.
Can you suppose that, if she marry another, herhusband will ever consent to a child's romance?
Lady Louisa did not long survive the loss of her husband and her station in society; her income of course died with herself.
He therefore resolved to rid himself of the only witness to his marriage whose testimony he had cause to fear,--of the presence of the only one acquainted with his sin and the real name of the husband of Mary Westbrook.
Not a great deal; but the little she does say, betrays how much she shrinks from the union my poor husband desired: more, indeed, than ever!
It was then that Maltravers began to consider how far the fortune of Evelyn and her destined husband was such as to preclude all anxiety for their future lot.
It had happened that Sarah's husband died of his own excesses a few weeks before the birth of Templeton's child, she having herself just recovered from her confinement; Sarah was therefore free forever from her husband's vigilance and control.
When my poor husband lay on his bed of death, just before he summoned his nephew to receive his last blessing, he said to me, 'Providence can counteract all our schemes.
As he reached it, he saw Teresa and her husband approaching towards him, and Teresa's merry laugh sounded clear and musical in the racy air.
But if the husband hearing it hold his peace, and defer the declaring his mind till another day: whatsoever she had vowed and promised, she shall fulfil: because immediately as he heard it, he held his peace.
The husband shall be blameless, and she shall bear her iniquity.
The day that her husband shall hear it, and not gainsay it, she shall be bound to the vow, and shall give whatsoever she promised.
And the husband stirred up by the spirit of jealousy bring her before the Lord, and the priest do to her according to all things that are here written: 5:31.
If the spirit of jealousy stir up the husband against his wife, who either is defiled, or is charged with false suspicion, The spirit of jealousy, etc.
But if forthwith he gainsay it, she shall not be bound by the promise: because her husband gainsaid it, and the Lord will be merciful to her.
These are the laws which the Lord appointed to Moses between the husband and the wife, between the father and the daughter that is as yet but a girl in age, or that abideth in her father's house.
She bore to her husband Amram sons, Aaron and Moses, and Mary their sister.
If her husband hear, and hold his peace, and doth not disallow the promise, she shall accomplish whatsoever she had promised.
I should (puff) do no such thing,' snorted her husband into his frill.
