And here, we may be permitted to offer an observation upon the peculiar and unaccountable influence which ladies of a shrewish turn so frequently exercise over—we can scarcely, in this case, say—their lords and masters; an influence which seems not merely to extend to the will of the husband, but even to his inclinations. ’ ‘Ah. So, here he was, on the last lap of middle age, in China, having missed all the thrills in life except one—the war against Death. “Election be hanged!” he exclaimed. He said that for him beauty justified life, that he could not imagine a good action that was not a beautiful one nor any beautiful thing that could be altogether bad. ‘Think I’m fool enough to do my business in a convent?’ he said scornfully. Her eyes were lit with a gleam of humour. Instead had come this storm, this shouting, this weeping, this confusion of threats and irrelevant appeals. She tried not to pant, not to reveal herself, and she began to shake. Other, and more serious impositions, inasmuch as they affected a poorer class of persons, were practised by the underlings of the jail.
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