And for the sake of mutter-schutz, if for nothing else, it must be kept that way. For marriage, to the wife who is a mother as well, impresses me as rather like the spliced arrow of the Esquimos: it is cemented together with blood. It shows a rent in the dyke, a flaw in the blade, a breach in the fortress-wall of faith.
It shows the wind is not blowing right in the home circle. No husband whose heart is right stands holding another woman’s shoulder and tries to read her shoe-numbers through her ardently upturned eyes. He was my husband, I kept reminding myself. And now he was scrambling that precious collection for a cheap omelette of amorous adventure. He was the husband to whom I’d given up the best part of my life, the two-legged basket into which I’d packed all my eggs of allegiance. He had said what he did with deliberate intent to hurt me, for it was only too obvious that he was tired of being on the defensive. The man I’d wanted to live with like a second “Suzanne de Sirmont” in Daudet’s Happiness had not only cut me to the quick but was rubbing salt in the wound. But this was much more than a matter of barometers. At the end of a long winter, I knew, tempers were apt to be short. A belated March blizzard was slapping at the panes and cuffing the house-corners. I turned to the window, to the end that my Eliza-Crossing-the-Ice look wouldn’t be entirely at his mercy. His films include The Perils Of Pauline (1914), The House Of Intrigue (1919) The Purchase Price (1932) and The Iron Claw (1941).“Well, she doesn’t make love like a frog,” he retorted with his first betraying touch of anger. Preview Prairie Stories Containing V2by Arthur Stringer Prairie Stories Containing V2: The Prairie Wife The Prairie Mother The Prairie Child (1922) by Arthur Stringer liked it3.00 Rating details 3 ratings 1 review This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. He was best known for his crime fiction and his adventure novels including his Prairie trilogy (1915–1922). He wrote poetry and worked as a journalist for the Montreal Herald and American Press Association. He was born in Chatham, Ontario and later studied at Oxford University. US and Canadian author Arthur Stringer was a prolific writer known for his novels and film screenplays.
The diary of a homemaker living on the prairie whose husband cheats on her and files for divorce as she struggles to keep her family together. Sequel to The Prairie Wife, about life on the Prairie a century ago. But when Person Benson moves close by, nothing is ever the same. They live in isolation with their hopes and a dream. TRILOGY: Three of Arthur Stringer's classic, historical westerns are in this Kindle eBook: The Prairie Wife, The Prairie Mother & The Prairie ChildĬhaddie and Duncan McKail, a young married couple, try to make their life on the Great Plains as wheat farmers but they are beset by disease and accidents and failing crops.
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