Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: July 16, 2025
But whatever Eveena might exact or I concede, the distinction between the wife who commanded as much respect as affection, and the girls who could at best be pets or playthings, was apparent against our will in every detail of daily life and domestic intercourse. It was alike impossible to treat Eveena as a child and to rule Enva or Eiralé as other than children.
"That she should for once get the worst of it, and be disbelieved to sharpen the sting!" "How do you know?" asked Enva. "I don't feel so sure we have heard the last of it." "Eveena did not seem to have liked her half-hour," answered Leenoo spitefully. "Besides, if he did not disbelieve her story, he would have let her prove it." "Is that your reliance?" broke in Eunané.
You think Enva or Leenoo might less unnaturally, less unreasonably, have turned upon you, because your measure to their faults was somewhat harder and your heart colder to them! You did not scruple to make a favourite of me after a fashion, as you would never have done even of Eunané.
Then, turning to Eveena, Enva spoke for the rest "We should have treated you less ill if we could at all have understood you. We understand you just as little now. Clasfempta is man after all, bridling his own temper as a strong man rules a large household of women or a herd of ambau.
On observing this, the rest Enva, Leenoo, Elfé, and Eiralé took occasion to criticise the articles in question with such remarks and grimaces as ill-bred children might venture for the annoyance of an inexperienced sister.
Sure that Eveena had told her all she could wish to know or all it was safe to tell, a long embrace spoke my farewell to her who had shared with me the first part of the long watch of the death-chamber. Enva and her companions had gathered, not from words, that this journey was more than an ordinary absence.
"Can you not imagine, or make Eveena tell you, Clasfempta, why women once purchased think it best to give smiles and kisses freely to one who can command their tears? Or do you fancy that their smiles are more loyal and sincere when won by kindness than...." "By fear? Sweeter, Enva, at any rate. Well, if I do not offend your feelings, I need not hesitate to disregard another of your customs."
Before you gave Enva her charge you said to me in her presence, 'Forgive me what you force upon me; as if I, above all, were not your own to deal with as you will. Dearest, do you so wrong her who loves you, and is honoured by your love, as to fancy that any exertion of your authority could make her feel humbled in your eyes or her own?" It was impossible to answer.
"But the first time you took me out, I heard the superintendent say some strange things; and then he checked himself when he found your companion was not Eveena. Then Eivé I mean you use expressions sometimes in talking to Eveena that we never heard before. I think there is some secret between you." "And if there be, Eunané, were you going to betray it to set Enva and Leenoo on to find it out?"
"Do you mean that women expect and receive no more: that they do not naturally share in a man's surplus wealth?" While I spoke Enva had joined us, and, resting on the cushions at my feet, looked curiously at the metallic notes in Eveena's hand. "You do not," returned the latter, "pay more foe what you have purchased because you have grown richer.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking