human
The only other order he ever gave me was not to exert myself to lift my little Elsie before I had recovered my strength after her birth. He was very tenderly careful of his little wife, as he delighted to call her.
gpt
I wish I had known him, said Zoe.
human
Is my husband much like him?
gpt
Yes, thought Zoe,
human
And my Edward has been very tenderly careful of me.
gpt
And always will be, I trust, said his mother, smiling more cheerily.
human
If he does not prove so, he is less like my father than I think. Mamma will tell you, I am sure, that she has been the happiest of wives.
gpt
I suppose it depends a good deal upon the two dispositions how a couple get on together, remarked Zoe, sagely.
human
But, mamma, do you think the man should always rule and have his way in everything?
gpt
I think a wife's best plan, if she desires to have her own way, is always to be or to seem ready to give up to her husband. Don't deny or oppose their claim to authority, and they are not likely to care to exert it.
human
If I were only as wise and good as you, mamma!
gpt
Ah, dear, I am not at all good; and as to the wisdom, I trust it will come to you with years; there is an old saying that we cannot expect to find gray heads on green shoulders.
human
And if division come, it soon is past, Too sharp, too strange an agony to last. And like some river's bright, abundant tide, Which art or accident had forc'd aside, The well-springs of affection gushing o'er, Back to their natural channels flow once more.
gpt
Oh, she said to herself,