It was a gorgeous May
evening, the air redolent with the soapy purple scents of
hyacinth and lilac. “Is it any one you know?” Brendon asked. The Old Mint. The service had not proceeded far, when she was greatly disturbed by the
entrance of a person who placed himself opposite her, and sought to attract her
attention by a number of little arts, surveying her, as he did so, with a very
impudent and offensive stare. “I was trying to design a personal hovercraft. ”
“But I say, Vee,” said Constance, “if you come and you are forbidden to come
there’ll be the deuce of a row. “And what was that dreadful confession you had to make?” he was saying. That it provided proof of the girl’s
identity was one thing. 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. It was his redemption, his ticket out of hell—that blue-serge coat. For most of a long and fluctuating night she was fairly confident that she
would find work; she knew herself to be strong, intelligent, and capable by the
standards of most of the girls she knew. ’
The old man simply stared at her. Got the tickets? Yes, but then—you said you borrowed?”
“I did, too,” said Ann Veronica.
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