Excerpt from I Married a Wife: A NovelI believe that Sir Hector was a regular Old martinet, one Of those fierce old persons with a tremendous voice and a bristling moustache, who thought as little of order ing his daughters to have bread and water for a week as he did of strapping the men under him up to the triangles, a man who made a rule of calling all natives, niggers, and whose wife was a meek little fragment of a woman who seldom spoke above a whisper, and was very careful what she said even then. Somehow, I always felt glad that my maternal grandfather was gathered unto his fathers before there was any chance of my making his acquaintance. From all that my mother has let out and even still she speaks of him with a sort.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.