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and she was, like them, ill-tempered, tyrannical, hard-hearted, spiteful, covetous, and treacherous, and fond of backbiting her husband and his relatives, and all who sought his acquaintance or admired him for his talent.

I remember with grief the perpetual quarrels with which this cross woman, my mother, embroiled the house, contending against my father for complete mastery of everything, even to the estimates and proceeds of his business. She fought furiously for the “wearing of the breeches” and her motto was “I’d see any man to the devil before I’d allow him to have one inch of his own way!!”. She won the victory in the end, after years on years of hot conflict. His musical attainments were odious to her for she frequently complained that much of his time was spent at his musical trash instead of being at his trade earning hard cash for her.
I may justly think that I was born and reared in a war camp on account of those incessant hostilities between my Dalcassian father and my Puritan mother; but my mother was always the