"It's a pump, like an organ. A woman’s shoe lay on the threadbare carpeting. 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. Fancying they were alone, Sir Rowland threw aside his cloak, and produced a
heavy bag of money, which he flung upon the table; and, when Wild had feasted
his greedy eyes sufficiently upon its golden contents, he handed him a pocketbook filled with notes. ‘I have the means to compel
you. The Chapel
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XX. Wood; but they never come now. Spurling and Marvel rose too. But really it is much more than that. Besides," he added cynically, "it is said that
God watches over fools and drunken men. White——”
“No more,” Sydney Courtlaw begged, laughingly.
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