That's the trooth: Jennie goes mighty clost to forgettin' Enright Peets now an' then in her wifely anxieties concernin' Dave.
That's infinitely correct, just now, but in two or four years from now wifely will be the proper word, and you will feel very different.
My husband brought me," replied Ruth, recovering herself in time to meet the formal salutation and the cold discriminating glance of Mrs. Schwarmer, with wifely dignity.
But her wifely chivalry felt that he must get through his first serious practical trouble his own way.
Time to go,' he returned, smiling, but she caught the discomposure in his tone and look at once, and her wifely heart rose against the squire.
She did everything for him that wifely hands could do.
It seemed to her often as though he lay already on the breast of God; even her wifelylove grew timid and awestruck.
If a rigid mind here and there condemns Julie for a sort of compromise between love and wifely duty, impassioned souls will lay it to her charge as a crime.
And with this sense of responsibility for the honor of both, with the magnificent immolation of self, the young Marquise unconsciously acquired a wifely dignity, a consciousness of virtue which became her safeguard amid many dangers.
In modern times, as in all these stories, the word signifies the death of a widow who commits suicide to prove her wifely fidelity.
So your fine, fearless knight of chivalry Has won his way to your most wifely heart By boasting of his prowess!
Fill, to the utmost of your ability, all your wifely relations, and seek to develop in your husband those higher qualities of thought and feeling to which your spirit can attach itself.
Not made with interest or feeling; but promptly, as the dictate of wifely duty.
Mrs Brindley had risen and with wifely attentiveness was turning over the music page for her husband.
Mrs. Balfame replied in the old wifely tones that so often had caused him to grit his teeth: "I never hold a man in your condition responsible for anything.
She was only too faithful to herwifely vow--faithful in thought and deed.
In the eyes of the world, there might be wickedness in tempting her from her wifely duty; but surely, in the eyes of heaven, there was no great sin.
Better a day Of Passion than the long unlovely years Of wifely duty, when Love cometh not To wake the barren days!
She came to me and put both her hands in mine and said with a gentle modesty, which was all tenderness in fact, and all wifely in promise: "Be it as you will, Archie!
Moreover, she had not the slightest intention of permitting anything to interfere with her wifely duties as she saw them.
Bessie thought that a good wife must be chaste, of course; other matters of wifelyduty were less distinct.
Mrs. Haviland said, eying Rachael hopefully for a wifely denial.
Rachael would hang on his free arm, in happy wifely fashion, as they went back to the house.
She seemed full of a new wifely and matronly charm to-day, and it was quite in key with the pose that old Mrs. Gregory and young Charles should be constantly in her neighborhood.
Paulina, in fact, is the lofty, the impossible, ideal of wifely and daughterly truth and devotion.
And they have had an extensive and wonderful influence in the molding of wifely ideals.
A recent performance at Covent Garden, arranged specially, I understand, for Ternina, was not nearly so bad as that; but still Ternina scared me horribly with the enormous force of her Wifely Ardour.
Her voice was as clear as a bell, and full of wifely solicitude.
There was doubtless something strangely inconsistent in this instinct of wifely loyalty and duty in a woman who had just voluntarily left her husband’s house.
And this was what her notions of wifely duty had led to!
Then she set about the somewhat difficult task of rousing him, quite her capable wifely little self when there was something she could do for him.
She and Mrs. Tarbury exchanged a look, and Julia knew exactly what concessions her mother had made before the reconciliation; knew just how sincere this unworldly wifely devotion was.
Such was her wifely rule, and he considered that there was no sense in it.
Edward Henry would not lose sight of his priceless charge, but he sent Marrier to despatch a telegram to Nellie, whose wifely interest in his movements he had till then either forgotten or ignored.
He could have killed her, but he could not put a finger on a fault in her marvellous wifely behaviour; she would have died victorious.
Every sensible girl married to a poor man comprehends, as one trait of wifely duty, that she must make her trousseau last and look well as long as she can.
Time to go,' he returned, smiling, but she caught the discomposure in his tone and look at once, and her wifely heart rose against the Squire.
It seemed to her often as though he lay already on the breast of God; even her, wifely love grew timid and awestruck.
The neighborhood of this last enabled her to make an intermittent pretence of reading; but in reality the energies of her house-wifely mind were taken up with quite other things.
What men love is the comforts of the married state, not the person who provides them,--wifely duties rather than the wife.
The rack and wheel and thumb-screw of married life are generally less powerful than the patience of the wifely heart.
The mother-instinct in woman corresponds to the father-instinct in man; and the wifely love to the husbandly love.
