“Well, I do. He could have easily forced it, but
preferred a more expeditious mode of reaching the roof which suggested itself to
him. Are you going to have any apple-tart,
Stanley? The apple-tart’s been very good lately—very good!”
Part 7
At the end of dinner that evening Ann Veronica began: “Father!”
Her father looked at her over his glasses and spoke with grave deliberation;
“If there is anything you want to say to me,” he said, “you must say it in the
study. Her eyes seemed to be looking backwards. I'll have no such toast drunk at my
table!"
"It's the king's birthday," urged the woollen draper. 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. "What would my poor mother say to it?"
"I was sorry to see that about your mother, Jack," observed Hogarth. He went into the study and sat down at his table, but not to write. She had to exert
tremendous energy not to sniff the air for his blood.
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