Painted Pearls
He gestured at her with one callused hand, and she let the book fall open in her hands.
Looking down, she read, Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
She flipped the page forward, and read on, from the verses upon verses stacked across the page.
‘‘This is unlike any catechism I have ever read,’’ she affirmed stonily, and did not hide the menace which had crept into her voice.
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