lusi

Updated: May 16, 2025

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.

Frederick Marryat - Valerie