” That conversation ended and he turned to her again. She drew it out
with shaking fingers. “Why should women be dependent on men?” she asked; and the question was
at once converted into a system of variations upon the theme of “Why are things
as they are?”—“Why are human beings viviparous?”—“Why are people hungry
thrice a day?”—“Why does one faint at danger?”
She stood for a time looking at the dry limbs and still human face of that
desiccated unwrapped mummy from the very beginnings of social life. "
"Pray, let me have a pinch!" said Edgeworth Bess, with a captivating glance. He went over his interview with her again, their
conversation at dinner-time. "
"Don't be angry with me, Sir," cried the widow, sobbing bitterly, "pray don't. At that a new element poured into her excitement, an element of wild disgust
and terror. Then suddenly the curtain would fall. Regardless as the gentry of the Mint usually were (for, indeed, they had become
habituated from their frequent occurrence to such scenes,) of any outrages
committed in their streets; deaf, as they had been, to the recent scuffle before
Mrs. She was alone, and the mask of her
unchanging high spirits was for the moment laid aside. Manning; and repeated, “a sort of history.
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