’
The girl bit her lip and backed a little, while her husband shifted to stand at
her side. “The truth!” It was a moment of awkwardness between the two sisters
—a moment, too, charged with its own psychological interest, for there were
secrets between them which for many months had made their intercourse a
constrained and difficult thing. For a time she furnished the flat. We do not remember to have met with a single individual, reported
to be under petticoat government, who was not content with his lot,—nay, who
so far from repining, did not exult in his servitude; and we see no way of
accounting for this apparently inexplicable conduct—for which, among other
phenomena of married life, various reasons have been assigned, though none
entirely satisfactory to us—except upon the ground that these domineering
dames possess some charm sufficiently strong to counteract the irritating effect
of their tempers; some secret and attractive quality of which the world at large is
in ignorance, and with which their husbands alone can be supposed to be
acquainted. She could not help herself. “It’s too bad. 9. But the letter, written in his son’s own hand, and
addressed to the Mother Abbess of the Convent of the Sisters of Wisdom near
Blaye in the district of Santonge, dated a little over five years previously,
exercised a powerful effect upon him. You will observe
that a coronet is embroidered on it. She gazed with a quiet detachment toward the window
and the Oxford Street traffic, and in her heart she was busy kicking this man to
death. He
would pick a random member of the ever-shifting
household for the sake of example. "
"My courage gave out. Besides, it is all reversed
now, you know. I see that I am a beast—I beg your pardon, bête—and an imbecile, and
an idiot. "While I live you are safe," rejoined Trenchard; "after my death I can answer for
nothing.
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