crowder's

Updated: June 13, 2025

"Now, isn't that a wife to have!" exclaimed my host, as we resumed our cigars. "She thinks of everybody's happiness, and even wishes us to feel free to take another cigar if we desire it, although in her heart she disapproves of smoking." We settled ourselves again to talk, and as there really could be no objection to my listening to Crowder's confidences, I made none.

Frank Richard Stockton - The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander