The Dodd Family Abroad (Volume 2) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1854 Excerpt: ... LETTER XXVI. MRS. DODD TO MR. I'DROELL, OF THE ORANGE, BRUPF. Baden-Baden. Deab Me. Pubcell, Youb letter is now before me, and if I didn't know the mark of your hand before, I'd scarce believe that the sentiments was yours. It well becomes you; one that but one woman would ever accept of, to lecture the likes of me on the way I ought to treat my husband. A stingy old creature that sits croaking over an extra sod of turf on the fire, and counts out the potatoes to the kitchen, is not exactly the kind of authority to dictate laws to the respectable head of a family I often suspected the nature of the advice you gave K. I., but I didn't think you'd have the hardihood to come out with it yourself, and to me How much you must have forgotten both of us, it's mighty clear Where did you get all the elegant expressions about K. I.'s "unavoidably prolonged absence"--"the sacrifices exacted from friendship"--" the generous ardour of a chivalrous nature," and the other fine balderdash you bestow upon your friend's disgraceful behaviour? Do you know what you are talking about? Have you a notion about the affair at all? Answer me that. Are you aware that he is now two months and four days away without as much as a letter, except a bit of an impertinent note, once, to ask are we alive or dead, not a sixpence in cash, not a cheque, nor even a Bill that we might try to get protested, or whatever they call it. I don't make any illusions to why he went, and what he went for. I wouldn't disgrace my pen with the subject, nor myself by noticing it; but, except yourself, in the brown wig and the black satin small clothes, I don't know one'less suited to perform the "Lutherian." You are a nice pair, and I expect nothing less than to hear of yourself next And you have the impud...