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Title: The Saturday evening post
Year: 1839 (1830s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Graham
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ce in marriage, because they are never one for long at a time withanybody but themselves. But women actually believethat they are one flesh with their husbands. Really, youknow, there is no such thing. Nature and the ministerwho performs the ceremony merely deceive us. Now allthese years when you were away in Nashville and Wash-ington I thought of myself as being one with you; I livedin that consciousness. Well? said Adam. He was staring at me steadily, asa brave man faces his calamity. It was difficult to explain, although I had a very definiteconviction about it, and I stumbled on, trying to tell him. What I mean is that it was a mistake to be the wifeof just you God! he ejaculated, as if he were listening toblasphemy from the lips of a babe. Ive got to be from now on the wife of what you are. Oh, Eve! he cried, taking his head in his hands. Sayit plain, so that I can understand it. Well, I mean that I should have been the wife ofCongressman West in Washington, not merely the relic
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We Stood Facing One Another In the Moonlight With the Flowers for Witnesses of Adam, left behind here in the garden. And I meanthat in future, whatever you are, I shall be the wife of that. A man can make a woman feel like a fool when she isnot. Adam did it now. He looked at me wonderingly amoment; then he began to snicker and paw at me theway a husband does when he wants to make fun of hiswife by taking her in his arms. But I held back. I am in earnest, Adam. About what? Well, you know that you will never be contented tolive here in Booneville. You will go back into publiclife—and I am in earnest about not staying here when youare somewhere else. You are willing, then, that I shall continue in public life? I saw that he was immensely relieved and I went onpleasing him. It was the old motive of Eve with the apple. You promised when we were married that you wouldmake me the wife of the governor of Tennessee. I couldnot resist smiling at him. I felt as a woman feels when sheknows she

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