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Updated: June 9, 2025
I am introduced to the quarter-deck and first lieutenant, who pronounces me very clever Trotted below to Mrs Trotter Connubial bliss in a cock-pit Mr Trotter takes me in as a mess-mate Feel very much surprised that so many people know that I am the son of my father. On our arrival on board, the coxswain gave a note from the captain to the first lieutenant, who happened to be on deck.
Ergo, our relatives' wishes respectfully fulfilled, and connubial misery ad libitum. Mes condolences. If you feel half as bad as I do, I really feel sorry for you. But, frankly, I think the joke is decidedly on me." Garrison was silent, staring with hard eyes at the ground. He could not begin to analyze his thoughts. "You are not complimentary, at all events," he said quietly at length.
He knew a hundred tales and legends regarding persons of the very highest ton, whose valets canvass their august secrets, just, my dear Madam, as our own parlour-maids and dependants in the kitchen discuss our characters, our stinginess and generosity, our pecuniary means or embarrassments, and our little domestic or connubial tiffs and quarrels.
She could never look at my father and mother sitting anywhere near each other but she must flop down and weep awhile; the sight of connubial bliss always reminding her, so she would explain, of the past glories of her own married state. Though an earnest enquirer, I was never able myself to grasp the ins and outs of this past married life of Susan's.
It was simply a case of connubial astigmatism. While Wagner was living on terms of strange intimacy with the young king, he was accused of Oriental luxury. The selection of the rainbow furnishings of his house and of his own dressing-gowns, which made Joseph's coat mere negligée, was not altogether his own, but showed the unmistakable guiding hand of a woman.
I made a point of listening for the accentuation of the 'my dear' which was being interchanged, but the key-note to the harmony existing between husband and wife was neither excessively unctuous, nor shrewd, and the connubial shuttlecock was so well kept up on both sides that I chose to await the issue rather than speculate on the origin of this strange exhibition.
I don't deny that Philip insulted me grossly, in one way; and that Philip's late father insulted me grossly, in another way. But Mamma Tenbruggen is a Christian. She returns good for evil, and wouldn't for the world disturb the connubial felicity of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Dunboyne."
How wide is this of the truth! The sweet and tranquil joys of home are his, enhanced a thousand-fold by previous privation the delights of connubial and filial love are more keenly felt by him, in the simplicity of nature, than by the luxurious citizen or the ermined noble; and though he has never heard the chant of the cathedral choir, or listened to the consecrated melody of an organ peal, the sublime transports of religion have thrilled his bosom beneath the solitary sky, amid the wild, or by the margin of the cataract that rolls its unvisited torrent over nameless cliffs.
Poor Mrs Mackenzie got the worst of it; for of course Mr Maguire did not pay for his lodgings. But he did marry Miss Colza, and in some way got himself instituted to a chapel at Islington. There we will leave him, not trusting much in his connubial bliss, but faintly hoping that his teaching may be favourable to the faith and morals of his new flock.
The theory of hearts entering into connubial contracts, is as effete as Stahl's Phlogiston!
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