Henrietta Robinson Author:David Wilson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER HI. LIFE IN LONDON TRAVELS IN SCOTLAND, FRANCE, AND ITALY HER OHIL DREN ABANDONS HEE HUSBAND RETURNS TO AMEEICA DESCEIPTICN OP BCENERT HER J... more »OUENEY FROM NEW YORK TO QUEBEOr -- AERIVAL IN HEE NATIVE CITY REPULSED BY HER FAMILY -- THE MAD PROPHECY NOVEL SITUATION SEEKING! EMPLOYMENT. Three years she continued to reside in London, and they were years of conjugal bitterness and infelicity. This unhappy state, however, was not the result of any severity, unkindness, or inattention on the part of her husband. It was solely attributable to her own unreasonable conduct. She had been " crossed in love " -- cheated, as she fancied, out of a life of bliss, and it was characteristic of her evil nature to remember it with emotions of resentment and revenge. Though still maintaining her stately bearing before the world, and preserving her virtue from the shadow of suspicion, her domestic life, during her entire residence in Europe, was so violent as to be the source of perpetual annoyance and mortification to her friends. In the hope that it would in some measure mollify her temper, her husband accompanied her into the Highlands, and having visited many places of historical interest, crossed the channel to Paris, from thencemaking long journies into Italy, and through the most delightful parts of France ; but among the solitudes of Scotland, or amidst the gayeties of Paris, she was still the same intractable creature, whom neither novelty, kindness nor reason could win to the ways of gentleness. The truth is, without just cause -- indeed without any cause whatever, as she has always been ready to admit -- her indifference toward her husband gradually changed into absolute hatred and disgust. She became the mother of two children, who are now living ; yet ...« less