All the year round Volume 38 ; a weekly journal
Charles Dickens
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com, May 18, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...to it, for there is nothing in them to which my husband could take exception. It has been the result of ungovernable temper upon the one side, and upon the other--on mine, no doubt of temper also; but yet, I trust, not without circumstances of mitigation. In love and reverence for my father I have not failed, though in filial obedience I have been wanting. I have not hesitated to confess to you that I am myself by nature passionate; I do not think I am impatient of control, but my naturo revolts against injustice, and in this case injustice has been done to me. I acknowledge, with all my heart, that I have behaved with disrespect towards my father, the man whom, of all otters (save her husband), a woman is bound to revere and honour. I revere and honour him still, and that I deeply regret the breach between us you may gather from the strenuous efforts I have made--and, I am thankful to reflect, successfully--to heal the differences between you and your father. Still, he has cast me off, and even forbad me to wear his name; and I, on my part, have taken him at his word and assumed that of my mother. This I have sworn before Heaven to wear until I have exchanged it for that of my husband, and whatever may be the consequences to me, I shall keep my oath. The matter itself can be of no little consequence to you, but the concealment of it on my part would, I feel, be doing you a great and grievous wrong. Therefore, dearest Cecil, I have made confession of my fault, and do pray Heaven that your dear love may prove great and generous enough to overlook it and forgive, always your loving, 'Ella.'" When the reading was finished, the judge beckoned for the document to be handed up to him, and attentively perused it. "This is your handwriting, madam, is it?&...