The Physiology of Marriage Part 40
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A woman who was a sloven suddenly develops extreme nicety in her attire.
There is a Minotaur at hand!
XI.
"Ah! my dear, I know no greater torment than not to be understood."
"Yes, my dear, but when one is--"
"Oh, that scarcely ever happens."
"I agree with you that it very seldom does. Ah! it is great happiness, but there are not two people in the world who are able to understand you."
XII.
*The day when a wife behaves nicely to her husband--all is over.
XIII.
I asked her: "Where have you been, Jeanne?"
"I have been to your friend's to get your plate that you left there."
"Ah, indeed! everything is still mine," I said. The following year I repeated the question under similar circ.u.mstances.
"I have been to bring back our plate."
"Well, well, part of the things are still mine," I said. But after that, when I questioned her, she spoke very differently.
"You wish to know everything, like great people, and you have only three s.h.i.+rts. I went to get my plate from my friend's house, where I had stopped."
"I see," I said, "nothing is left me."
XIV.
Do not trust a woman who talks of her virtue.
XV.
Some one said to the d.u.c.h.ess of Chaulnes, whose life was despaired of:
"The Duke of Chaulnes would like to see you once more."
"Is he there?"
"Yes."
"Let him wait; he shall come in with the sacraments." This minotauric anecdote has been published by Chamfort, but we quote it here as typical.
XVI.
*Some women try to persuade their husbands that they have duties to perform towards certain persons.
"I am sure that you ought to pay a visit to such and such a man.... We cannot avoid asking such and such a man to dinner."
XVII.
"Come, my son, hold yourself straight: try to acquire good manners!
Watch such and such a man! See how he walks! Notice the way in which he dresses."
XVIII.
When a woman utters the name of a man but twice a day, there is perhaps some uncertainty about her feelings toward him--but if thrice?--Oh! oh!
XIX.
When a woman goes home with a man who is neither a lawyer nor a minister, to the door of his apartment, she is very imprudent.
XX.
It is a terrible day when a husband fails to explain to himself the motive of some action of his wife.
XXI.
*The woman who allows herself to be found out deserves her fate.
What should be the conduct of a husband, when he recognizes a last symptom which leaves no doubt as to the infidelity of his wife? There are only two courses open; that of resignation or that of vengeance; there is no third course. If vengeance is decided upon, it should be complete.
The husband who does not separate himself forever from his wife is a veritable simpleton. If a wife and husband think themselves fit for that union of friends.h.i.+p which exists between men, it is odious in the husband to make his wife feel his superiority over her.
Here are some anecdotes, most of them as yet unpublished, which indicate pretty plainly, in my opinion, the different shades of conduct to be observed by a husband in like case.
M. de Roquemont slept once a month in the chamber of his wife, and he used to say, as he went away:
"I wash my hands of anything that may happen."
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