 | Edmund Hodgson Yates - English fiction - 1872 - 758 pages
...never wavered or diminished in his absence, received his representative with every token of the fondest affection ; returning to her quiet wifely habits as...himself did not more successfully personate absent Amphytrion than did the retumed traveller Martin Guerre. Whether or not the wife ever suspected that... | |
 | 1872 - 720 pages
...never wavered or diminished in his absence, received his representative with every token of the fondest affection; returning to her quiet wifely habits as...himself did not more successfully personate absent Amphytrion than did the returned traveler Martin Guerre. Whether or not the wife ever suspected that... | |
 | Richard Harris - Lawyers - 1890 - 404 pages
...never wavered or diminished in his absence, received his representative with every token of the fondest affection; returning to her quiet wifely habits as...of three years, during which they lived together, presented the supposed Martin with two children. Whether or not the wife ever suspected that she was... | |
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... he undertook to personate.' But Coras, whose narrative we follow, and whose information must have been far superior to Pasquier's, contradicts this. Madame Guerre, whose attachment to her lord had never wavered or diminished in his absence, received... 