’
That arrested her. Her
evident terror and distress reinforced the tale he told. The turnkey looked
round the next moment, but the manoeuvre escaped his observation. ‘But you,’ she said in the friendliest way imaginable, ‘are a person tout à fait
sympathique, I think. "
But as no answer was returned to the summons, though it was again, and more
peremptorily, repeated, Baptist seized a mallet from a bystander and burst open
the door. Mark you, she wasn’t the only one. Unlocking it, he entered the
chamber, which by no means belied its external appearance. ”
They passed out on to the pavement, and the commissionaire called a hansom. You must have figured that
out by now. The contest, however,
though desperate, was brief. And here, we may be permitted to offer an observation upon the peculiar and
unaccountable influence which ladies of a shrewish turn so frequently exercise
over—we can scarcely, in this case, say—their lords and masters; an influence
which seems not merely to extend to the will of the husband, but even to his
inclinations. . . I
hoped for a family like the Becks and I waded through
the system until I got them, so maybe life isn’t so damn
hopeless after all.
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