Her stomach growled, and she clutched at it in reaction,
haphazardly observing that the gown had been changed
to silk. “You go home,” he said, at parting; “you go home. I will come later to see
you, Melusine. He used to call it his fire-escape—ha! ha!
I've often used the ladder for my own convenience, but I never expected to turn
it to such good account. Rowland and his companions instantly started in
pursuit, leaving the lady to recover as she might. "
"I'm sorry I mentioned it at all, since it distresses you," returned Winifred; "but,
as I knew my father intended to propose to you, if poor Jack should be respited
—"
"If he should be respited?" repeated Mrs. ”
Brendon laughed softly. ”
He was still conscious when they reached the hospital and his state was much
more favourable. 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.
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