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. Framed in one of the square ports of the packet was a face which reminded Ah Cum of a Japanese theatrical mask. He seemed to have shrunken in his seat. “It has all been a mistake, hasn’t it?” “No more talking,” the doctor interposed. Stimulated by the promise of something handsome to drink, the man acquitted himself to admiration in the management of his lazy cattle. ‘How could you possibly know it?’ ‘I know it,’ Lucilla told him frostily, ‘because Dorothée told me that Madame Valade went off with Gerald positively purring in her ear—which is a thing he never does—and came back with him looking like the cat after cream. Suspicion was in his face. “Will you be moral and your species, or immoral and yourself? We’ve decided to be immoral. ’ Thus adjured, but mindful of Trodger’s orders, the militiaman went down the hall backwards, his eyes fixed on the prisoner. As silent as she had remained about who had brought her home last night. ” He left off abruptly. She leaned back in the cab with half-closed eyes.
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