” “And the people?” Brendon asked. To her satisfaction, the captain reddened a trifle. If you choose to requite me by detaining me, you are at liberty to do so. “This is all very well,” she said, “but two out of the three are rank deserters— and if the papers tell the truth the third is as bad. Earles watched her anxiously. An entire forest’s array of meats was served in courses brought out to the table. Her husband sat in a chair beside her bed, his head in his hands. Critically, she stared at her own features. She lay and nibbled at a sprig of dwarf rhododendron. ’ ‘You have seen him? Exactement. 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 wonder what he’ll say?” CHAPTER THE SIXTH EXPOSTULATIONS Part 1 The next morning opened calmly, and Ann Veronica sat in her own room, her very own room, and consumed an egg and marmalade, and read the advertisements in the Daily Telegraph. “The fool I have been!” he cried; and now speech was coming to him.
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