THE WIFE'S COXFESSIOX,
The Princess is frank, and, at the same time, guarded in revealing the secrets of her unhappiness with her husband ; but I fancy that it is not difficult for anybody who knows life to read between the lines of the following statement: " The opening hour of marriage, so blessed for so many, to me was an hour accursed ; it was the' first minute of indescribable shame. What there was behind the thick curtains of blue velvet, I knew too well ; it was sorrow, it was brutality, it was insult. Later — quice lately — it was even worse. ... it was whit I will not mention, but others have mentioned it : it was depravity. ... I can see my husband now looking at me with an abstracted air as might a drunken man look at the glass with which he has made himself drunk, and which fills him with disgust." As I have said, anybody who has known life can read between the lines of this statement, and can understand that this, is one of those tragedies the details of which it is impossible to give, and yet the very mentior of which makes one shudder. It is the secret suffering that has to be whispered in the consulting-room of the physician, in the confessional; but it may go on unnoticed by the world, and it can never be told to the world.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2558, 25 March 1903, Page 65
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232THE WIFE'S COXFESSIOX, Otago Witness, Issue 2558, 25 March 1903, Page 65
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