This was to get money, for I afterward found out that avarice was one of her strongest vices.
"The sight of all this filled me with indignation, and I at once turned out the whole lot of servants, leaving only two or three maids.
I obtained some of the old servants, and reinstated them.

All this made my wife quite wild.

She came up to me once and began to storm, but I said something to her which shut her up at once.
"One day I came home and found her on the portico, in her riding-habit.

She was whipping one of the maids with the butt end of her riding-whip.

I rushed up and released the poor creature, whose cries were really heart-rending, when my wife turned on me, like a fury, and struck two blows over my head.