Description - The Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend Volume 16-17 by William C Brown
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...delights in torture, he will not spare his wife or his helpless children. When we see a man practising cruelty on any poor helpless creature, or a fractious horse, unmercifully, we write over against his name, devil, and shun him accordingly. We once knew a man, who, during a ride for pleasure, became so demoniacally enraged at his horse, which refused to go, that he sprang from his carriage, drew his knife, and cut out an eye of the poor brute. The lady who accompanied him fainted, suffered a long nervous illness, and will never recover from the horror which the outrage gave her. And we knew the young lady, who, knowing this of him, was fool-hardy enough to become his wife. And we know how he tortured her; how he outraged all her feelings; how he delighted to destroy whatever she prized, or took pleasure in; how in his fits of passion he broke her furniture, -seized her by the shoulders, and shook her till she could not crawl to bed; how he beat her; how he kept her poor babe black and blue with blows and pinches, until her parents took her home, and sheltered her from his cruelty. If you have a suitor whom you feel inclined to favor, look narrowly into the temper of the man. Love may soften it for a while, or it may induce him to restrain or disguise it; but be assured, the natural temper will remain; and the time will come, when your presence will be no restraint upon him. We have heard wives complain, "I was so deceived in my husband; men are so deceitful," &c. But we believe, in nine cases in ten these women deceived themselves. They suffered the romance of their own foolish heart to adorn their lovers with all the excellencies which their fancy attributed to a perfect character, and to draw a veil over all their vices and defects, which, ...
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