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Sometimes they taunted him with want of courage, and called him a "night-cap" and a "hen-pecked coon," all of which made Nils uncomfortable.
So Sylvia did not find him at all the Voice of Authority, but just a poor, hen-pecked, unhappy husband of a tyrannous Castleman woman. The next thing was that "Miss Margaret" took up the notion that a time such as this was not one for Sylvia's husband to be away from her. What if people were to say that they had separated?
Then, wild buffalo that he was, tamed down in the yoke matrimonial, I could not but fancy, that if upon no other account, our society must please him, as rendering less afflictive the tyranny of his spouse. For a hen-pecked husband, by the way, Samoa was a most terrible fellow to behold.
'Don't keer whether she 's asleep or not, he used to say to those who bantered him, 'she knows I 'm a-comin', and she always hears my click on the gate-latch, and is waitin' for me. "It came to be well understood throughout the county. "'I believe you are hen-pecked, said a man to him one night. "'I believe I am, George, laughed Hallo-way, 'and by Jings! I like it, too.
And indeed it is much better patiently to be such a hen-pecked frigot, than always to be wracked and tortured with the grating surmises of suspicion and jealousy.
Gettysburg tuned up for another of his songs, the burden of which was the tale of a hen-pecked man. Once more at its end Napoleon looked up and spat on his hands. "There ain't nothing that can keep some women down 'cept a gravestone and I've seen some gravestones which was tilted." Despite the interest and amusement she felt in it all, Beth was becoming sleepy as she sat there in the sun.
I have said that Lop-Ear was not happy. My sister was the daughter of the Chatterer, and she made Lop-Ear's life miserable for him. In no other cave was there so much squabbling and bickering. If Red-Eye was a Bluebeard, Lop-Ear was hen-pecked; and I imagine that Red-Eye was too shrewd ever to covet Lop-Ear's wife. Fortunately for Lop-Ear, she died. An unusual thing happened that summer.
"'I got to be home by seven, Buck, repeats this hen-pecked thing of little wisdom, like an unthinking poll parrot. 'Mariana, says he, 'will be out looking for me. And he reaches down and pulls a leg out of the checker table. 'I'll go through this Trimble outfit, says he, 'like a cottontail through a brush corral.
"Will not the princess tell the Count de Provence that the Tuileries are now inhabited by a downright bourgeois and hen-pecked husband, who treats his wife sentimentally even in the presence of other persons, and in return for her caresses has always to comply with her wishes? And shall we not be laughed at, my child?"
We hear much of the rights of woman, and their wrongs; but this is certain, that in a family, as in a State, there can be no divided rule no equality. One must be master, and no family is so badly managed, or so badly brought up, as where the law of nature is reversed, and we contemplate that most despicable of all lusi naturae a hen-pecked husband.
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