Generalship; Or, How I Managed My Husband; A Tale

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. 1875 Excerpt: ...told them that you had gone mad, --there was no deception in that; and if ye wish to prove the truth o't, if you have anything to say to Mr Grant about your sister, you can cry't owre the window to him, --he's still within hearing.' John said, 'Never mind! I'll find means of communicating with him.' Mary Anne, who had evidently a correct notion o' the matter o' dispute, said, 'I think, papa, it would be better if you would not interfere in what you have no business with.' At this John got fairly roused, and in a manner kicked his daughter out o' the room. He shoved her out o' the room by the shoulders, and shut the door with a kick that set a' our portraits a-dancing. Then, turning to me, he said, 'I'll turn over a new leaf with you, Madam!' My answer was, 'You had better begin a new volume wi' me; a new leaf is nothing to the change that has come owre you.' John answered, 'There is little use in bandying words; but I tell you, once for all, that this matter must be dropped.' 'And I tell you, ' was my reply, 'that this matter will not be dropped!' And then, starting on a new tack, I said, 'But what matter is't ye're raving about John?' 'You don't require, ' quo' John, 'to be told what matter I refer to. Your own guilty conscience informs you that I am right, and that'you are wrong.' Vexed and angry as I was, this allusion to the guilt o' my conscience forced me to laugh right in John's face. John seemed bursting with rage, so I said, 'Come now, guidman, and let you and me have a quiet reasonable conversation about this matter o' conscience.' John took a seat, and I, sitting down right opposite to him (the table was between us), said, ' So far as I can see, the matter stands simply thus: you have a sister, an ornament to her sex, even although her life has not b...