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The Wedding-Ring

D. D. "The Wedding-Ring." New-York Saturday Press. 19 Jun. 1860: 1, 4.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
short fiction
Abstract: 

A very independent woman rescues a drowning man, and falls in love with him. They get married, but the wife comes to see the wedding ring as a constraint, and she begins to detest it. She reveals her feelings to her husband, who allows her to throw the ring into the river.