’ Melusine giggled. She drifted northward from the Strand, and came on some queer and dingy quarters. 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. To even presume a lustful thought about her was to ask for one’s own death. In all this world there was no sacred ground that said to her: Return! She was of all human beings the most lonely. The jailers robbed the prisoners: the prisoners robbed one another. She was vaguely happy over this arrangement which put her in the wing across the middle hall, alone. She caught her breath, and her eyes were lit with a sudden terror. You’ll never see the light of day as long as you live. Why did he take me?’ Martha’s damp eyes were puzzled.
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