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’ ‘Of course he will release you,’ Gerald said at once, concealing his delighted satisfaction at this unexpected piece of good fortune. To this day he and every one else thinks that he married Anna. And then I came here. Only she was conscious of an unfamiliar and wonderful emotion. He seemed to do ten things before she could think to do one, to leap upon her and take possession. 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. Everything proclaimed the mischievous propensities of the recent occupants of the chamber. ‘Come, Jacques, mon pauvre,’ she uttered, and reached for the lad again, hardly aware of the muted sounds of running feet and much banging and crashing beyond the secret door. The open books she knew by heart; aye, they had been ground into her, morning and night. ‘He lacked moral fibre, did Nicholas. The crowd dispersed in different directions, and most fortunately a heavy shower coming on, put them altogether to flight.
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