. 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 . lap, my husband beingin the room, when one of my fathers wives children, alittle fellow about three years old, came toddling in. , happening to want something, asked the child to getit for him. Tiie article in question was on a shelf, out ofthe childs reach, and to get it he would have to stand on achair, and even then his tiny fingers could but just touch it. A LITTLE FAMILY LOVE-SCENE. 407 There was a heavy jar on the shel
. 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 . lap, my husband beingin the room, when one of my fathers wives children, alittle fellow about three years old, came toddling in. , happening to want something, asked the child to getit for him. Tiie article in question was on a shelf, out ofthe childs reach, and to get it he would have to stand on achair, and even then his tiny fingers could but just touch it. A LITTLE FAMILY LOVE-SCENE. 407 There was a heavy jar on the shelf, which I feared hemight pull down upon himself, and I remonstrated againsthis trying to get it. I offered to reach it myself, but myhusband instantly turned and forbade my leaving my chair,saying that the child should bring him what he desired. But he must not, I cried, in an agony of terror. I tell you he shall, was my husbands answer. The child stood looking from one to the other, half crying. Strangled by mv Husband. with fear, and yet scarcely daring to disobey the commandthat had been given to him. Louis, fetch it to me instantly, commanded he again. Louis, you shall not, said I, half rising from my chair. In an instant, my husband, maddened with fury that Ishould dare to contradict him, seized me by the throat, andthrew me back into the chair. The screams of the terrifiedchild brought my mother, into the room at once. Shesnatched the baby from my arms, which I still held clasped 408 NEARLY STRANGLED BY MY HUSBAND. convulsively, while my husbands fingers were tighteningabout my throat. I was dizzy with pain, and almost suffo-cated from the grip ; but my maternal instinct was strongerthan the pain, and I never relaxed my hold on my child. My mother called my father, and he came and rescuedme from the infuriated man who held me, and carried meinto my mothers room. Until that time they had knownnothing of the treatment which I received from my hus-band. They knew that I wa
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