“She would not forgive me easily,”
“So Hansen,” Malden bellowed so loudly that people passing in the street might have heard,
“Remind us how your new, and may I say exquisitely proportioned, dear lady wife contrived to remain virgo intacto fully one calendar month after your wedding day?”
“She pushes me away,” I said, “She loves another and only wed me at her mother’s insistence.”
“As you married her at your mother’s insistence,” he reminded me. XXX “He is a brute, he knows no better,” I explained, “You have been brought up a gentlewoman to live among Gentlefolk, you can not set that aside and rut with low borns.” I added, “Why low born wenches would have consorted for years by your age and have caverns readily able to swallow the blacksmiths girth and
