"
"What kind?"
"Dickens, Hugo. Her mother tried to
soothe her with tales of romance and love, of all the
fineries that she would enjoy in the Palazzo, but all Lucia
could do was cry until her cheeks twitched and her
forehead ached. Poor
girl! she was beautiful once; so beautiful as to make me, who care little for the
allurements of women, fancy myself enamoured of her. "
"Have you seen him?" asked Trenchard. 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. Then he sensed the trap. ’
‘What heir?’
‘Exactly. Ann Veronica liked their relationship all the more
because it was an unusual one. I had a sort of idea,” he went on, “that you were starting life all over
again, and it seemed awfully plucky. ’
‘Don’t you believe it. But the young man with the orange tie remained in his place, disputing
whether the body had not something or other which he called its legitimate
claims. ‘But if there is
one, how in the world did this mystery lady of yours know of it?’
‘That, Lucy, is precisely the point that has been exercising my mind,’ Gerald
said, turning his eyes once more to the group of French exiles in the alcove. Having accomplished his intent, Gerald let the lad go and had himself driven
back to Stratton Street.
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