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MARRIED LIFE
OR
THE TRUE ROMANCE
By
MAY EDGINTON
BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
1920
IN ADMIRATION
TO
A COMPLETELY SUCCESSFUL
HUSBAND
CONTENTS
- ANTICIPATION
- IRREVOCABLE
- BEAUTIFUL
- DREAMS
- HOUSEKEEPING
- DISCIPLINE
- DISILLUSION
- BABY
- PROBLEMS
- RECRIMINATION
- THE BANGED DOOR
- BEHIND THE VEIL
- "THE VERY DEVIL"
- DRIFTING
- SURRENDER
- ISOLATION
- REVIVAL
- INTRIGUE
- ANOTHER WOOING
- SEPARATION
- HOME-COMING
- PLAIN DEALING
- INDIFFERENCE
- FOOL'S CAP
- RECOMPENSE
- COMPREHENSION
MARRIED LIFE
OR THE TRUE ROMANCE
"I've been round all the sales," said Marie, "hunting and hunting. Myfeet are tired! But I've got a lovely lot of things. Look! All thiswashing ribbon, a penny a yard. And these caps—aren't they the lastword? Julia, aren't they ducks? I thought I'd have my little caps allalike, flesh-pink tulle."
"When'll you wear them?" asked Julia hardily.
"When do other people wear them?" retorted Marie, rather confused.
"Have you ever worn things like this?"
"Well," said Marie, "perhaps not. But I've been saving up two years forit, haven't I? And if a girl can't have pretty things in her trousseau,when can she have them?"
Julia sighed and looked. There was a little clutch at her heart, butshe went on sturdily:
"All you girls going to be married! I don't know what you expect! Iknow what you'll get. You seem to think a husband's a cross betweenRomeo and a fairy godmother. Well, you'll find it's different. You allimagine, when you say good-bye to your typewriter, or the showroom, orwhatever line you're in, to marry on an income not so very much biggerthan your own, that you're going to live in a palace and be waited uponever afterwards. You'll have to get up early and cook Osborn'sbreakfast, shan't you, before he goes out? And make the beds and sweepand dust? And you're buying pin