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"A mother's blessing on you," replied Mrs. She held it away from her
with an instinctive repulsion, born of her unconquerable antipathy to the touch of
strangers. "Thank you, sir," said Spurlock, holding out his hand. The name of this damsel was Edgeworth Bess; and, as her
fascinations will not, perhaps, be found to be without some influence upon the
future fortunes of her boyish admirer, we have thought it worth while to be thus
particular in describing them. She was trying to adjust the wimple, dragging at it
and fighting with her loosened hair. “Well,” she achieved at last. 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. "Take him to the bilbowes. ‘Does she need a
dowry for that?’
‘Melusine believes so, and that is what counts. She flew to the door, but returned the
next minute, looking deeply disappointed, and bringing the intelligence that it
was "only Mrs. He gripped the window-sill behind him. These are the decrees of the Island of
Bermuda, and I will never suffer its excellent laws to be violated.
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