Agatha's Husband: A Novel

CHAPTER I.

--If there ever was a woman thoroughly like her name, it was Agatha Bowen. She was good, in the first place--right good at heart, though with a slight external roughness (like the sound of the g in her name), which took away all sentimentalism. Then the vowels--the three broad rich a's--which no one can pronounce with nimini-pimini closed lips--how thoroughly they an...