They delighted in extracts from Shakespeare, especially from "The Taming of the Shrew," an admirable satire in itself on the old common law of England.

I hated Petruchio as if he were a real man.

Young Bayard would recite with unction the famous reply of Milton's ideal woman to Adam: "God thy law, thou mine." The Bible, too, was brought into requisition.

In fact it seemed to me that every book taught the "divinely ordained" headship of man; but my mind never yielded to this popular heresy..