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Ill-use me if you will; play Zantippe, and I will be more submissive than Socrates. But you are all mildness perfect Christian, perfect woman. You cannot miss being perfect as wife and " Another word trembled on his lips; but he checked himself lest he should offend, and the speech ended in a sob. "My Angela, my angel!"
Jane's stories, as well as Mammy's always began with "Once upon a time there were two sisters;" one was represented as plain-looking, but amiable the other beautiful, but a very Zantippe in temper.
Ruth and Marion exchanged comic glances when they discovered the "heathen" of the afternoon to be Socrates. And Marion presently whispered that she was evidently to play the character of the old fellow's wife, and Eurie whispered to them both: "Now I want to know if that horrid Zantippe was Socrates' wife! Upon my word I never knew it before.
Her grandmother she promptly christened "Tippy," also for a reason she could not or would not divulge. But one evening, to her secret amusement, Lilly found a sheet of paper in the litter of the desk, jotted all over with Zoe's joyous scrawl, "Zantippe," in every case the first syllable crossed out. All but Albert.
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