“I will put the question,” Drummond said gravely. ’ He screamed at me through the rope and tape, it was no use. Somehow or other his reputation as a hardened and unassailable bachelor had won for him during the last few years a comparative immunity from attentions on the part of those women with whom he had been brought into contact. "I have had Kanakas who could read and write in Dutch, and English, though. 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 wasn’t long ago that a girl went straight from the farm to her husband, just as soon as her period came and she could make babies. Such names shone brightly in the darkness, with black spaces of unilluminated emptiness about them, as stars shine in the night; but now—now it was different; now it was dawn—the real dawn. I don’t think women need to trouble about political questions. ‘Yes, but quite my own fault. They began to wrestle fiercely.
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