He believed her an angel—married and found her only a woman.
A curled knot of snakes is not as deadly as the signature to a mortgage.
In London they no longer say, "Lend me your purse—but your name."
A painter's description of matrimony—
Introduction: the background.
Courtship: the middle ground.
Engagement: the foreground.
Marriage: the nude subject.
Kruger is the epitome of obsolete ideas and living force.