It shall be your wedding ring. 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. She rambles continually about Jack, and her husband, and that wretch
Jonathan, to whom, as far as can be gathered from her wild ravings, she
attributes all her misery. ‘Now
you see why it is I no longer require the proof of which I have spoken. "And so we're to be
summoned from our beds and snug firesides, because a kid happens to squall,
eh? By the soul of my grandmother, but this is too good!"
"Do you intend to claim the privileges of the Mint?" said Jonathan, calmly
pursuing his interrogations amid the uproar. You need
have no apprehensions about him, Sir Rowland. “I wonder!” said Miss Stanley. "
CHAPTER XIV. I wouldn't keep an apprentice to set my authority at
defiance. “And now, look at us! See what
we have become. Smith, now, being more than half-seas over, became very uproarious, and,
claiming the attention of the table, volunteered the following
DRINKING SONG. Not only that, but he is here in London. "
"That's well. "
"Hoddy!" said Ruth. .
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