"Conjugal government requires its treatises. A young woman setting out in life lacks a printed guide. Her cookery-book, however, may afford some useful hints till one be actually directed to the important subject just mentioned. Many well-known receipts are equally available for a batterie de cuisine or du cΕur. Your roasted husband is subdued by the fire of fierce words and fiercer looks β your broiled husband, under the pepper and salt of taunt and innuendo β your stewed husband, under the constant application of petty vexations β your boiled husband dissolves under the watery influences β while your confectionized husband goes through a course of the blanc mange of flattery, or the preserves and sweets of caresses and smiles."
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Lady Anne Granard (or Keeping up Appearances)
Lady Anne Granard (or Keeping up Appearances) (1842) by Letitia Elizabeth Landon Lady Anne has fallen on hard times but the world must not see this. Also, she has five daughters, all of whom must be found husbands from the aristocracy. However, love intrudes where it should not and those daughters have minds of their own. Nevertheless, Lady Anne persists right to end in keeping up appearances. The first volume of this novel was received in New York shortly prior to the author's death. It was com
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