. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . r. — How she Kicked a Sewing-Machine down theProphets Stairs. — She has a new House built for Her. — Rather Ex-pensive Habits. — Her Pleasant chances for the Future. — Mary VanCott Cobb. — A Former Love of the Prophets. — Miss Eliza-RoxySnow. — The Mormon Poetess. — Joseph Smiths Poetic Widow.—Versification of the Saints. — Mrs. Augusta Cobb. — Emily Partridge. jJH. HH i;jyin-t;j*m>w^ HE favorite wife of theProphet, Amelia Fol-
. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . r. — How she Kicked a Sewing-Machine down theProphets Stairs. — She has a new House built for Her. — Rather Ex-pensive Habits. — Her Pleasant chances for the Future. — Mary VanCott Cobb. — A Former Love of the Prophets. — Miss Eliza-RoxySnow. — The Mormon Poetess. — Joseph Smiths Poetic Widow.—Versification of the Saints. — Mrs. Augusta Cobb. — Emily Partridge. jJH. HH i;jyin-t;j*m>w^ HE favorite wife of theProphet, Amelia Fol-som, is a woman aboutforty years of age, andwas a New Englandgirl. She was born at Ports-mouth,New Hampshire,and with her parents,who were converts toMormonism, came to Utah. She is tall,of a good figure, has rather regular fea-tures, brown hair, bluish-gray eyes, anda querulous, discontented expression, witha very great deal of decision indicatedby the mouth. *And, indeed, in spite ofall that is lavished upon her, she is riothappy. She did not wish to marry Brigham, as she had alover to whom she was fondly attached; but he wished to32. Brigham Looks Amazed. 498 MAKING LOVE IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. marry her, and that settled her fate. Her parents favoredhis suit, and urged it strongly ; but she was bitterly opposedto it, and it was months before she would yield to theirunited desires. He was a most arduous and enthusiastic lover, and dur-ing all the time that his suit was in progress, his carriagemight be seen standing before the door of her parentshouse several hours at a time every day. He evidently didnot intend that absence should render her forgetful of promised her anything that she might desire, and alsoagreed to do everything to advance the family had no weight with her. He then had recourseto Revelation ; he had been specially told from heaventhat she was created especially for him, and if she married anyone else she
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