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Updated: June 26, 2025
And in the face of the man's silence, how could the woman speak? No! she began to see her life as the Vicar saw it: pledged to large causes, given to drudgeries necessary, perhaps noble, for which the happy are not meant. This quiet shelter of Beechcote could not be hers much longer.
But when his mind began restlessly to turn once more towards the duties of active life; when he recalled all the former drudgeries and toils of political conflict, or the wearing fatigues of literature, with its small enmities, its false friendships, and its meagre and capricious rewards, ah, then, indeed, he shrank in dismay from the thoughts of the solitude at home!
As slaves then who have gained their freedom do now and then those drudgeries and discharge those servile employments and offices for their own benefit which they undertook heretofore for their masters' advantage, so the mind of man, which at present is enslaved to the body and the service thereof, when once it becomes free from this slavery, will take care of itself, and spend its time in contemplation of truth without distraction or disturbance.
The father then is to set the example of self-sacrificing love and devotion; and the mother, of Christian obedience when it is required. Every boy is to be trained for his future domestic position by labor and sacrifices for his mother and sisters. It is the brother who is to do the hardest and most disagreeable work, to face the storms and perform the most laborious drudgeries.
She had been filled up by her guardian with wild fancies of her own greatness, which was hereafter to be made manifest; and it would have been too strong for unaided nature, to bring herself to submit to such drudgeries as duty seemed now to require of her; her bright-brown cheek was flushed with the inward contest, and her bosom seemed to be almost swelled to suffocation.
We may doubt, with equal probability, whether much of the lofty spirit, and the universal passion for public affairs, whence emanated the enterprise, the competition, the patriotism, and the glory of the ancient cities, could have existed without a subordinate race to carry on the drudgeries of daily life.
With what new eyes should we now look on our daily lot! and if we found in it not a single change, the same old cares, the same perplexities, the same uninteresting drudgeries still, with what new meaning would every incident be invested! and with what other and sublimer spirit could we meet them?
Nothing but that while he travelled he still made it his business to rid the world of tyrannies, errors, dangers, and drudgeries; he still put to death all robbers, all monsters, all venomous serpents and hurtful creatures. Why then do we not follow his example, doing as he did in the countries through which we pass?
I know of no age when virtuous women did not shine at home, and exert a healthful influence upon men, and secure the proud regard of their husbands. But these were not the women whose society was most sought. The drudgeries and slaveries of domestic life among the ancients made women unattractive to the world.
You didn't whine and you did my little drudgeries well and patiently, as though they were the big things you would have done " "You don't understand. I did whine " "I never heard you. Miss Summers, we owe David an apology. We were sorry for him!" "Not now," she said. "No, not now. David, how long will it take you to finish your new plans?" "But I'm not going to prepare plans.
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