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Rh its life according to her social tastes and ideas, were resisted by Anthony from the beginning.

At first his opposition was pleasantly expressed. "She might queen it over him, but he would be her deputy over the household; and as for filling the hall with company, he was jealous of her society, and would not share it with a crowd of foolish men and women." In such flattering words he veiled his authority, for he was deeply in love with his beautiful bride, although he would not surrender to her the smallest of his privileges as her husband and as master of Aske Manor and Hall. Indeed, even in the first days of their married life many things had shared his heart with her; his estate, his horses and dogs, and hunting affairs, country matters and politics.

And Eleanor, undisciplined and inexperienced, could not accept this divided homage. Her father had always given in to her desires and humored all her wishes. Her teachers had found it profitable never to contradict her. Her servants had obeyed her implicitly. Her beauty, youth, and wealth had made her for a time a kind of social queen. Was she to sink into the mistress of Aske Hall, and the wife of Squire