“Um, he took me to the Big Apple. 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. —'They have,' says he. Out of the beaten
track, far from the trails of men! He relaxed. You haven’t an idea what the sort of employment you could get
there would be like, the sort of people you would be mixed up with. “You are beautiful, Lucy. ’
‘I suppose you want to take her along as well as that infernal stolen horse?’
said Hilary sarcastically. I have since received a
most extraordinary letter from her. ’
While he trod a deliberate path through the pink saloon towards the door,
Gerald encouraged a flow of harmless chatter about the people Madame had met
and the parties she had attended. Yet an
indiscriminating, wrong-headed world gave such fellows all sorts of
distinctions. “Young lady! Are you sure you’re of legal age to be
smoking those cigarettes?”
“No, I’m not of legal age. He knocked his pipe on the teak rail. Henry Clay, thirteen
cents in Hong-Kong and two-bits in that dear old New York.
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