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Those who admired Malcolm of whom there were not a few even in Vanity Fair called him the fisher-king: the wags called him the kingfisher, and laughed at the oddity of his taste in preferring what he called his duty to the pleasures of the season. But the marquis found even the hen-pecked Partan a nobler and more elevating presence than any strutting platitude of Bond street.
"Wedlock and blinkers! it is we gâssons, as you call us, who ought to know. Your hen-pecked husband has no time to generalize among the sex, in order to understand the real quality of the article. Now, here is Van Staats of Kinderhook, faithful François; what think you of such a youth for a husband for Alida?" "Pourtant, Mam'selle like de vivacité; Monsieur le Patroon be nevair trop vif."
"You mind your own business, Mike," said Jem, indignantly. "That's what I'm a-doing of, and a-waiting for orders, Mr Jem Wimble. He's hen-pecked, Mas' Don, that what's the matter with him. Been married only three months, and he's hen-pecked. Haw-haw-haw! Poor old cock-bird! Hen-pecked! Haw-haw-haw!"
When spring returned I obtained a male pigeon, and hoped Blanche would accept him for a mate, but she showed a great deal of temper, and made him so unhappy that he had to be exchanged for another a fine snow-white bird like herself, and, happily, of such a forbearing disposition as to endure being considerably "hen-pecked." Now began the curious part of Blanche's history.
She was fond of her father, too; the rather harassed and hen-pecked Horace Winter; and of her mother, the voluble and quick-tongued and generous Bertha Winter, who was so often to be seen going down the street, shawl and bonnet-strings flying, when she should have been at home minding her household. Much of the minding had fallen to Hannah.
"Your devoted and hen-pecked husband "P.S. I have written to father, and he will make all arrangements for Saturday. "P.P.S. Shall I be allowed to smoke in the drawing-room?" Margery Debenham leant out of the window and gazed at the garden and the orchard beyond.
He progresses, sir does the married man from bad to worse; he lives in a state of hen-pecked, snubbed, unnatural apprehension; he shrinks from his shadow; trembles at every sound; and, in the majority of cases, ends his miserable existence, sir, by hanging himself to the bed-post!" Having drawn this awful picture of the perils of matrimony, Mr. Roundjacket paused and smiled. Verty looked puzzled.
This was a sore point with the hen-pecked warrior, and the grim scarcecrow by his side knew it, and grinned through his telescope; 'and you see I say eh! I think they're breaking up, a and I say I it seems all over eh and so, dear colonel, I must take my leave, and . And after a lingering look, he shut up his glass, and walking thoughtfully back with his friend, said suddenly
The number of Northern church-members who are hen-pecked husbands. Dr. Ross then proceeded: Mr. Moderator, I move this amendment in the best spirit. I desire to imitate the committee in their refinement and delicacy of distinction. I disavow all intention to be impertinently inquisitorial. I intend to be inquisitorial, as the committee say they are, but not impertinently so.
Tellingham I fear that Briarwood Hall could not exist. However, the doctor is a perfectly harmless person." Grace Tellingham was a rather strong-minded lady and that the doctor would prove to be both mild and "hen-pecked." The car sped along the beautifully shaded road leading into Cheslow; but there was still ample time for the travelers to catch the train.
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