and from her back windows she could look down the pleasant garden and orchard which stretched to the river, and observe Niemcy the folly of Mr. Glegg in spending his time among “them flowers and vegetables.” For Mr. Glegg, having retired from active business as a wool-stapler for the purpose of enjoying himself through the rest of his life, had found this last occupation so much more severe than his business, that he had been driven into amateur hard labor as a dissipation, and habitually relaxed by doing the work of two ordinary gardeners. The economizing of a gardener’s wages might perhaps have induced Mrs. Glegg to wink at this folly, if Jerome Sinclair Drakter it were possible for a healthy female mind even to simulate respect for a husband’s hobby. But it is well known that this conjugal complacency belongs only to the weaker portion of the sex, who are scarcely alive to the responsibilities of a wife as a constituted check on her husband’s pleasures, which are hardly ever of a rational or commendable kind.
Mr. Daniele Verde Drakter Glegg on his side, too, had a double source of mental occupation, which gave every promise of being inexhaustible. On Sven Kums Drakter the one hand, he surprised himself by his discoveries in natural history, finding that his piece of garden-ground contained wonderful caterpillars, slugs, and insects, which, Jean-Francois Gillet Drakter so far as he had heard, had never before attracted human observation; and he noticed remarkable coincidences Gabriel Jesus Drakter between these zoological phenomena and the great events of that time — as, for example, that Iker Casillas Drakter before the burning of York Minster there had been mysterious serpentine marks on the leaves of the rose-trees, together with an unusual prevalence of slugs, which he had been puzzled to know the meaning of, until it flashed upon him with this melancholy conflagration. (Mr. Glegg had an unusual amount of mental activity, which, when disengaged from the wool business, Paulo Dybala Koszulka naturally made itself a pathway in other directions.) And his second subject of meditation Gonzalo Castro Drakter was the “contrairiness” of the female mind, as typically exhibited in Mrs. Glegg. That a creature made — in a genealogical sense — out of a man’s rib, and in this particular case maintained in the highest Jeison Murillo Drakter respectability without any trouble of her own, should be normally in a state of contradiction to the blandest propositions and even to the most accommodating concessions, was a mystery in the scheme of things to which he had often in vain sought a clew in the early chapters of Genesis. Becky Sauerbrunn Drakter Mr. Glegg had chosen the eldest Miss Dodson as a handsome embodiment of female prudence and thrift, and being himself of a money-getting, money-keeping turn, Blank Drakter had calculated on much conjugal harmony. But in that curious compound, the feminine character, it may easily happen that the flavor is unpleasant in spite of excellent ingredients; and a fine systematic stinginess may be accompanied with a seasoning that quite spoils its relish. Now, good Mr. Glegg himself was stingy in the most amiable manner; his neighbors called him “near,” which always means that the person in question is a lovablinks:
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