Chapter 33 33 Necessary Prelude

A young married couple was returning home from church in a carriage. "Hey, Varya," said the husband, grabbing my beard and pulling it hard. God knows what ideas you come up with! No, no, please!I beg you!grab it, grab it, don't be shy Come on, why are you bothering? Valya, I ask you, I order you!If you love me, grab my beard and pull it This is my beard, pull it! Say nothing!It is painful, and this person I love more than my own life No, I will never do it! But I beg you!The newly married husband is angry, do you understand, I demand you, and I command you! Finally, after a long dispute, the bewildered wife reached into her husband's beard and pulled him with all her strength without even frowning.

You see, I don't feel any pain at all!He said, really, no pain!Okay, wait a minute, now it's time for me to get you The husband grabbed a few strands of hair from his wife's sideburns and pulled them vigorously.The wife screamed loudly. Now, my dear, the husband concluded, you know, I am many times stronger than you, and have more stamina than you.In the future, once you shake your fist and want to hit me, or threaten to gouge out my eyeballs, you must remember this. In a word: a wife must be afraid of her husband!