Ruth
could tell the doctor; she could bare many of her innermost thoughts to that
kindly man; but there was an inexplicable reserve before this young man whom
she still endued with the melancholy charm of Sydney Carton. He was evidently nervous, and very anxious to be impressive; his projecting
eyes sought to dominate. He stood by her side,
and he suffered her hands to rest in his. ‘That is, if she’s gone that way. The brain tires of resistance, and when it meets
again and again, incoherently active, the same phrases, the same ideas that it has
already slain, exposed and dissected and buried, it becomes less and less
energetic to repeat the operation. “I wish. Time enough to do so when she has her affairs
settled—if she can settle them. ‘You have something more to tell me?’
Jack grinned. 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. ’
The pathetic sob which accompanied the last word had a signal effect on two
of the company at least. Miching Mallecho
IX. “Not only that,” he answered. “We’ve all been mixing our ideas, and we’ve got intellectual hot coppers—
every blessed one of us. He had been
abusing them for a long time when I arrived. He seemed like a very
intelligent doctor and not at all like a snooty archbishop.
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