Take care of the old clothesman, and leave the rest to me. ”
“What did your aunt say?”
“She didn’t even kiss me. Meet me. Nothing, in short, portable or valuable was left. 9. ”
Lucy’s eyes smiled and a weary closed lipped smile
arose on her face. “Time for my Patience,” she said. How provoking!" she added, pretending to rummage her pockets; "one
never can find a thing when one wants it. Can you inform us whence it came?"
"I should think so. A knot of three policemen in
conflict with her staggered toward Ann Veronica’s attendants and distracted their
attention. “But why is it preposterous?” asked Ann Veronica, and fiddled with a pipe on
the mantel. Mrs. Her lover surely did not
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understand the implications of what he had asked for and
his lust blinded him to the realities of existence even now. 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.
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