. 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 . that the Mormon Church was to bring about the timewhen seven women shall lay hold on one man, begging tobe allowed to be called by his name, and should promise toeat their own bread and wear their own apparel. The latterthey have been not merely allowed but obliged to do eversince they entered the system, and poor and scanty havebeen both bread and apparel in the majority of cases. Itmakes, in short, a brute of what might be a man
. 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 . that the Mormon Church was to bring about the timewhen seven women shall lay hold on one man, begging tobe allowed to be called by his name, and should promise toeat their own bread and wear their own apparel. The latterthey have been not merely allowed but obliged to do eversince they entered the system, and poor and scanty havebeen both bread and apparel in the majority of cases. Itmakes, in short, a brute of what might be a man. I know a first wife who was driven to such utter despera- HOPE GONE FOR EVER 1 293 tion by the total neglect of her husband, that she determinedto take her own life, since it had grown such a burden thatit was intolerable to bear. One night, in the dead of winter, the snow falling thickand fast, and the wind sweeping down the mountains andthrough the cailons, cutting to the very bone, as only amountain wind can, she wrapped a tattered shawl abouther, and rushed madly through the night and the snow tothe river, intending to lay down her life and her miseries. Life a Bi;ruen. together. With a wild prayer for mercy, she was about tothrow herself into the water, when she Vvas restrained by astrong, imperative hand, and her husbands voice, hissingangrily in her ear, bade her go home and not make a foolof herself. He was on his way home, or, rather, to his first wifeshouse, for a change of linen, that he might attend his secondand more favored wife to a party, when he caught sight ofthe flying figure, and, suspecting her intentions, followed herswiftly, and was just in season to prevent her from takingthe fatal step. 294 MARRYING ON THE SLY. He had no word of sympathy for her; on the contrary,he was angered at what he called her obstinacy and de-termination to make a fool of herself. Her anguish ofheart brought no response of tenderness from him ; he madeher return home, get the a
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