Lord knew why he had any interest in an impertinent girl who would certainly have spit him with that dagger! He reached into his pocket and brought it out, examining it in the increasing light as he slowly made his way back up the terrace. When Ann Veronica came into the study she found every evidence of a carefully foreseen grouping about the gas fire. ’ ‘Pah!’ ‘Precisely. All of which proves that the doctor also had his moments of distraction, with this difference: he was not distracted from his subject matter. I was worried. He accepted this confession conditionally: that no young man had kissed her. "There'll be a louder echo here presently," thought Jonathan. And thus he effected his escape from the New Prison. If you live, well and good; if you die, well and good. 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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