"
"I've had the hard work to do, at all events," rejoined Jack, "But I won't
complain. "
"Make it positive," was the brisk reply. ’
‘A very low stratagem, Hilary,’ Gerald said, turning on his captain with mock
severity. "
"You did right," returned Trenchard. "However, I'll refresh
your memory. This is the one movement that
brings women of different classes together for a common purpose. Perhaps the sunken cheeks and the
protruding cheekbones gave her this impression. Its very
calmness was frightful. 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 had a gold watch, a
very good gold watch that had been her mother’s, a pearl necklace that was also
pretty good, some unpretending rings, some silver bangles and a few other such
inferior trinkets, three pounds thirteen shillings unspent of her dress and book
allowance and a few good salable books.
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