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. "You have uttered a wilful and deliberate falsehood in asserting that I have murdered Thames, for whom you well know I would lay down my life. Like appendicitis. ’ ‘Pah! How can it be romantic? That is silly. Anna raised her eyebrows at the sight of him. It did not cheer or fortify him with false courage and recklessness; it simply enveloped him in a mist of unreality. —I do not congratulate you on your success. Why open my mouth if there might not be a need for it when all’s said?’ Melusine acknowledged the logic of this. Were I a painter of subject pictures, I would exhaust all my skill in proportion and perspective and atmosphere upon the august seat of empire, I would present it gray and dignified and immense and respectable beyond any mere verbal description, and then, in vivid black and very small, I would put in those valiantly impertinent vans, squatting at the base of its altitudes and pouring out a swift, straggling rush of ominous little black objects, minute figures of determined women at war with the universe. Jonathan mixed with the group, and, sure of his prey, abided his time. A siphon and a whisky bottle stood before him.
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