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"My bride's mother I had never seen: I understood she was dead

The honeymoon over, I learned my mistake; she was only er brother, too--a

complete dumb idiot The elder one, whom you have seen (and whom I

cannot hate, whilst I abhor all his kindred, because he has sorains of affection in his feeble mind, shown in the continued

interest he takes in his wretched sister, and also in a dog-like

attachment he once bore me), will probably be in the same state one

day My father and ht only of the thirty thousand pounds, and joined in the plot

against me"

"These were vile discoveries; but except for the treachery of

concealment, I should have made them no subject of reproach to my

wife, even when I found her nature wholly alien to mine, her tastes

obnoxious to ularly incapable of being led to anything higher, expanded to

anything larger--when I found that I could not pass a single

evening, nor even a single hour of the day with her in comfort; that

kindly conversation could not be sustained between us, because

whatever topic I started, immediately received from her a turn at

once coarse and trite, perverse and imbecile--when I perceived that

I should never have a quiet or settled household, because no servant

would bear the continued outbreaks of her violent and unreasonable