Gaylords

( The ). Village family in good circumstances. Squire Gaylord , shrewd lawyer, with one tender place in his heart—his love for his only child. Mrs. Gaylord , a calvin is tic invalid, in awe of her imperious lord. Marcia Gaylord , headstrong village beauty, who elopes with Bartley Hubbard, a newspaper man; goes with him to Boston; shares his capricious fortunes; adores and is madly jealous of him and goes home to nurse her sick mother, without her husband’s consent. He sues for a divorce, prevented by her father’s arrival prepared to give the other side of the question.—W. D. Howells, A Modern Instance .