Ebook Mrs. Armytage; Or Female Domination

A slumber did my spirit seal,
I had no human fears;
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years. Wordsworth.

Unnatural must be the state of things in a family, where a child presumes not to give utterance to the grateful and affectionate feelings swelling in its bosom towards a parent. There must be a fault somewhere, perhaps on one side, more probably on both.

And such was the case with Arthur Armytage.