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Habit allayed the grief that nothing else could ward5 a big discovery soon came 4 to comfort her completely. Between the dally and the do a secret she discovered: how to govern her husband monocratically, 8 and forthwith everything went right. She would drive out to supervise the farming, she pickled mushrooms for the winter, she kept the books, "shaved foreheads," 12 to the bathhouse would go on Saturdays, walloped her maids when cross- all this without asking her husband's leave.