Everett’s gaze dropped to
the papers in his hand. “For your own sake, let me beg of you not to stay for a moment. 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. ’”
“I have no choice,” Anna declared. Sebastian observed coolly, savoring the outline of
Lucy’s feral figure hunching over Michelle’s gradually
diminishing body. “Life’s so queer,” she said, kneeling and looking into the flames. "Adieu,
my worthy uncle. Wild's. So, while she watched, distressed and bewildered by her tumbling thoughts, the
packet, Canton bound, ruffled the placid waters of the Pearl River. Never for a moment had violence come between these two since long ago he
had, in spite of her mother’s protest in the background, carried her kicking and
squalling to the nursery for some forgotten crime. In the end, resolution triumphed, as it was sure
to do, over the weaker emotions, and he laughed at his fears. Supper was over. "
"I'm convinced of it," replied Shotbolt; "and it was on that very account I came
here. "In spots you are a
thoroughbred; but here's a black mark on your ticket, lad.
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