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Title: My opinions and Betsy Bobbet's. Designed as a beacon light, to guide women to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Holley, Marietta, 1836-1926
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Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : American Pub. Co., Toledo, O., W. E. Bliss
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ll yon hear my one requestthat I have dreampt of day and night, will you—willvou give me a lock of your nohle hair? Horace rose up from his chair precipitately andcome close to me and sot down, brijigin me betweenhim and Betsey, and then he says to her in a fearlesstone, You cant have a hair of my head, I haintgot much as you can see, but what little I have gotbelongs to my wife, and to America. My wifeshealth is better, and in case of her droppin off, IBhouldt never marry agin, and it wouldnt be apoetess! though says he wipin his heated forwerd, I respect em as a Race. IVt.Mx was mad. Says she to me, I am a goin.I will wait for you to the dcpott. And before Icould sav a word, she started off. As the door closed «/ I says in c-lear tones, Horace, I have watched you foryears—a laberin for truth and justice and liftin upihe oppressed, I have realized what you have donefor the Black African. You have done more for that Race than any other man in America, and I have re-16* f ..... .,
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MARRIAGEABLE WIMMEN OVER ZEALOUS. light of new discoveries. As you rise higher abovetlic earth you see stars you couldnt ketch .-ight of in asuller way. And the worlds cry of fickle minded-ness, may be the angels war wlmnp, settin us on toheavenly warfare.3 Horace seemed agin to be almost lost in thought,and I waited respectfully, for him to find and recoverhimself. Finally he spake, I have been sincere Josiah Allens wife, in think-inthat matrimony was womans only spear, but theoccurances of the past 25 or 30 minutes has com hiredme that wimmen may be too zealous a carry in outthat spear. I admit Josiah Allens wife, that anynew state of public affairs that would make woman• more independent of matrimony, less zealous, lessreckless in handlein that spear, might be more orle>s beneficial both to herself, and to man. Here he paired and ntlied. He thought of Betsey. T>\it I spoke right up in glad and triumphant tones, Horace, I am ready to depart this minute forJonesville. Now 1 c

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