He smiled. For all
that, it is folly. ’
Alderley glanced round the bedchamber. She never questioned the motives of the characters;
she had neither the ability nor the conceit for that; but she could and often did
correct his lapses in colour. 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. Wearied at
length with thinking on the past, and terrified by the prospect of the future, he
threw himself on the straw with which the cage was littered, and endeavoured to
compose himself to slumber. ”
Ann Veronica listened with her eyes on the fire. “I don’t see why not,” he answered. It would be difficult to find another human being subjected to so
many angles of attack as Spurlock. Having once more got into the chimney, he climbed to a level with the ward
above, and recommenced operations as vigorously as before. A modest
drinking bout which had its windup in a fan-tan house over in Kowloon, where
O'Higgins tussled with varying fortune until five in the morning.
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