” She sniffled. Very romantic and all that. He
went to Harvard instead. He went over his interview with her again, their
conversation at dinner-time. 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. Never again would he repeat that kiss; but at night when they separated, he
would touch her forehead with his lips, and sometimes he would hold her hand
in his and pat it. ”
“I promise,” Annabel declared. With a swirl of her
floral chintz petticoats, she placed herself in the capacious window seat,
accepted the glass Gerald handed to her, and smiled mischievously up at him. “Your father,” he said, “remarked that all’s well that ends well, and that he
was disposed to let bygones be bygones. By George, I forgot! McClintock
said there was a typewriter in the office and that I could have it. I can decide for myself. "
"May I look at it, Sir!" said Austin, stepping towards him. So
here I am, king of all I survey, with a predilection for poker, a scorched liver, and
a piano-player. ’
‘Comment?’ she demanded with some heat.
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