"
Aloud she said, with a watery smile, "And my Edward has been very tenderly
careful of me."
"And always will be, I trust," said his mother, smiling more cheerily. "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."
"I suppose it depends a good deal upon the two dispositions how a couple
get on together," remarked Zoe, sagely. "But, mamma, do you think the man
should always rule and have his way in everything?"
"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."
"If I were only as wise and good as you, mamma!" murmured Zoe with a sigh.
"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."
CHAPTER XXI.
"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.
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