"Yes, Auntie! And to date you have cost me precisely sixteen thousand dollars—
hard earned, every one of them. Play foul, and win. But he. 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. "What a very remarkable thing it is," he observed, applying to his snuff-box,
"that Thames Darrell, whom we all supposed dead,"—Kneebone in his heart
sincerely wished he had been so,—"should turn out to be alive after all. Had he but known it, his
outburst had done him no harm in the major’s eyes. The boiling under her stern, however, told him nothing. . "Recollect you are in my power. “And even then—”
The conversation hung for a thoughtful moment.
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