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(1868) [MARC] Author: Fredrika Bremer Translator: Emily Nonnen With: Charlotte Bremer
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her household duties to attend to in this home. And then
there was the light-house, the revolving bridal-lights on high;
which reminded her every dark night of the most beautiful
evening in her life, her wedding, when she saw “so many
lights, oh, so many lights.” And there was first and last,
and above all, her husband, and this husband was a noble-
hearted man, and still more he was an excellent husband.
It is perhaps as well that I avail myself of this opportu-
nity to make a confession, which has frequently hovered
over my lips, but which I have hitherto hesitated to give to
the world, out of fear that I thereby should incur the
hatred of all married ladies. I dread this even now, but
—never mind, I must unburden my heart. I confess,
therefore, that I have never found, that I never find a man
more amiable than when he is —a married man, that is to
say, a good married man. In my eyes a man is never
more noble, more perfect, than when he is a married man,
a tender husband, a father of a family, supporting with
vigor and with manly kindness his wife and the domestic
circle, which, by his entering into the wedded state, has
closed round him as a part of his home, of his world. He
becomes thereby uot only more worthy of love, but in
reality also more diguified. ‘Therefore the excellence of a
man consists in his being a good married man, and only
with such a one am I tempted to fall in love. But this
being strictly forbidden, and Moses, as well as all other
legislators, having pronounced it to be a sin, all married
ladies will consider it a sacred duty to stone me.
Nevertheless, I cannot help’ this. My only hope of rec-
onciling the offended parties lies in proceeding in my con-
fession: that no happiness makes me more happy to be-
hold, no love touches me more deeply, than the mutual
love of husband and wife. I am myself astonished at
this ; for it seems to me that being myself not married, I
have very little to do with that happiness. However, so it
is, and so it has always been. I was yet a child, when one ,

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