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Chase, you speak thus perhaps because it has been your lot to lead a single life; but, let me tell you, I think our missionaries sacrifice enough, without being obliged to come wifeless among negroes, Hindoos, South-sea islanders, and Cannibals. A dreary life at best unendurable without companionship. You wouldn't get a man to sail under the conditions you propose."
And at this whistling, the man looked at his wife again and said earnestly: "Listen! It sounds as if that might be the voice of a shore-dweller; one who catches miserable fish." And now the wifeless man saw that the old one's wife was letting down her hair. And this was because she was now about to ask counsel of the spirits.
It has always seemed to me as a wonderful triumph of divine grace in the Apostle Paul that he should have been so "content in whatsoever state he was" when he was a homeless, and, I fear, also a wifeless man.
The Nubians followed him, urging their captives before them up the narrow stairs, and so brought them out upon the terrace on the roof, that space which in Eastern houses is devoted to the women, but which no woman's foot had ever trodden since this house had been tenanted by Sakr-el-Bahr the wifeless.
Why didst Thou send me a fool to lead our house, and afterwards a lad as fine and strong as Absalom, and then lay him low like a wisp of corn in the wind, leaving me wifeless with a prince to follow me, the by-word of men, the scorn of women and of the Vaufontaines?" He paused again, and his eyes seemed to pierce Philip's, as though he would read if each word was burning its way into his brain.
Henrietta watched him through the whole evening, and told herself that he was a very mirror of courtesy in his own house. She had seen it all before, no doubt; but she had never watched him as she now watched him since her mother had told her that he would die wifeless and childless because she would not be his wife and the mother of his children.
That is not, I believe, a type to fascinate women for long, and Tschaikovski's moroseness, which bordered on morbidness and always hovered on the brink of insanity, made it perhaps fortunate for at least two women that his negotiations with them ended as they did. And so he drifted not such a bachelor as Beethoven, yet quite as wifeless.
But a wifeless, childless man wandering at large on the heart's bleak common has much the same reason to smile on all that he has to smile on any: there is no domestic enclosure for him: his affections must embrace humanity. As he strolled through the rooms, then, in his appealing way, seeking whom he could attach himself to, he came upon her seated in a doorway connecting two rooms.
"Let me, let me," they cried all together. And the wifeless man turned towards them, and laughingly chose out the best in the flock. And now they lived together, the wifeless man and the girl, and every day there was freshly caught seal meat to be cut up. At last she grew weary, and cried: "Why ever do you catch such a terrible lot?" "H'm," said he.
And then the wifeless man rowed home. But when the time for his expected return had come, he was nowhere to be seen, and the young girls began to rejoice at the misfortune which must have befallen him. For they could not bear the sight of that man. But then suddenly he came in sight round the point, and at once all cried: "Here comes one who looks like the wifeless man."
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