The Deliverance a Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields
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As far as that goes, I hold to this day the highest opinion of matrimony and of men, though I admit, when I consider the attention they require, I some- times feel that women might select a better object. When the last word is said, a man is not half so satisfactory a domestic pet as a cat, and far less neat in his habits. Your poor father would throw his cigar ashes on the floor to the day of his death, and I could never persuade him to use an ash-tray, though I gave him one regularly every Ch...ristmas that he lived. Do you smoke cigars, Christopher? I detect a strong odour of tobacco about you, and I hope you haven't let Tucker persuade you into using anything so vulgar as a pipe. The worst effect of a war, I am inclined to believe, is the excuse it offers every man who fought in it to fall into bad habits. " 400 THE DELIVERANCE "Oh, it's Uncle Tucker's pipe you smell, " replied Christopher, with a laugh, as he rose from his chair. "I detest the stuff and always did. " "I suppose I ought to be thankful for it, " said Mrs.
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