” “You are sure that he asked for me—not for Annabel?” “Certain,” Courtlaw answered. ’ ‘So this is the way you serve me,’ exclaimed Melusine, her quick temper flaring as she jumped up, slammed her hands on the desk and leaned towards him over it. 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. He laid her on their old bed and kissed her from head to toe. In worldly matters Gay was not fortunate. "I'll admit that. And sometimes he overflowed with a peculiarly malignant wit that played, with devastating effect, upon any topics that had the courage to face it. I am apparently a beast, a pig and an imbecile, too, if memory serves me. There will be no avoiding it. " "Do girls have puppy-love?" "Land sakes, yes! On the average they are worse than the boys. ‘But my poor Jacques is wounded and—’ ‘All taken care of,’ interrupted Hilary. The child has sprung into a youth; the youth has become a man; the man has already begun to feel the advances of age. "Devilish strange!" thought he, chuckling to himself; "queer business! Capital trick of the cull in the cloak to make another person's brat stand the brunt for his own—capital! ha! ha! Won't do, though.
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