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bear; told her, it was now too late to reflect upon those Things, that they had Money enough to make them both happy; and that, let it be whose it would before, it was a Stock in common now, and she should never make their Lives unhappy now about the foolish Question, who brought it? She told her, she might easily see her Husband was exceedingly moved with what she had said already; and that he would certainly provoke him by such outrageous Usage, to make her some bitter return; that she ought to consider she was a Wife, and that it is always in a Husband's Power to make a Woman's Life uneasy to her, especially when he has Justice on his Side.
She was so far from being prevailed upon by this calm and cool Reasoning, that she flew out into a Passion against her Husband, though he was not in the Room; reviled him over and over with his living gay upon her Fortune, while he was but a Beggar himself, and the like; so that the poor Lady, who had talked so calmly to her, had not room to put in a Word.
In the highth of this Feud the Husband came in again, and calmly desired her to have done, and be quiet, and, at least, to talk no more of it then, when she seemed to be in a Passion. But 'twas all one; she run on till, in a word, she was out of Breath, and began to have done, meerly for want of Strength, not Rage. To proceed:
Well, Madam, says he, now, I hope, 'tis my turn to speak a little; then, turning his Speech to the Lady that had spoken in his Absence, and to her other Relations, he gave them a brief Account how long she had treated him in this Manner; how little Occasion he hadgiven
