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Title: The Iron Rule

Author: T.S. Arthur

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The IRON RULE;

OR, TYRANNY IN THE HOUSEHOLD.

BY T. S. ARTHUR,

AUTHOR OF "LOVE IN HIGH LIFE," "LOVE IN A COTTAGE," "MARY MORETON; OR, THE BROKEN PROMISE," "AGNES; OR, THE POSSESSED," "INSUBORDINATION," "LUCY SANDFORD," "THE ORPHAN CHILDREN," "THE DEBTOR'S DAUGHTER," "THE DIVORCED WIFE," "PRIDE AND PRUDENCE," "THE TWO MERCHANTS," "CECILIA HOWARD," "THE BANKER'S WIFE," ETC. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.

Philadelphia:

1853

THE IRON RULE;

OR, TYRANNY IN THE HOUSEHOLD.

CHAPTER I.

ANDREW HOWLAND belonged to that class of rigid moralists who can tolerate in others no wanderings from the right way. His children were forced into the straight jacket of external consistency from their earliest infancy; and if they deviated from the right line in which they were required to walk, punishment was sure to follow.