[Elbow-Room by Charles Heber Clark (AKA Max Adeler)]@TWC D-Link book
Elbow-Room

CHAPTER XI
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Shut down on the widows.
You hear me! Suppress the widows.

Make it death for any widow to marry again.

That's my remedy; and there'll never be any justice till it's the law.

Just look at it! When a woman has been married once, she's had more than her share of the male population; she's had her own share and the share of another woman and an eighth.

Is it right, is it honorable, for that woman to go and marry another man, and take the share of two more women and an eighth?
I say, is it just the thing ?" "Well, on the surface it does look a little crooked." "Crooked is not the word.


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