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Alas, thou has not yet returned, O dear wife! Woe is on me, what can be the cause that she has not yet come back to us? Is every thing right with that dear spouse of mine in the forest? Separated from her, this my home appears to me empty! A house-holder's home, even if filled with sons and grandsons and daughters-in-law and servants, is regarded empty if destitute of the housewife.
His lips were dry. He had come to an arbour covered with a vine. Whose it was, on what house-holder's roof it was reared, he had never known. He entered. "She is not here." He moistened his lips with his tongue. He sat down on the stone divan to wait, watching toward the west through the doorway across which hung a loop of vine, like a snake.
She planned her meals long beforehand, with the aid of charts brought from college, and paid cash for everything she bought. She always carried a large market basket on her arm on these trips, and something in her trim, strong figure and clean gray gown, as she started off, appealed to a long-slumbering sense of house-holder's pride in Mr. Salisbury.
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