Miss Stanley had determined from the
outset to have the warmest affection for her youngest niece and to be a second
mother in her life—a second and a better one; but she had found much to battle
with, and there was much in herself that Ann Veronica failed to understand. “Anna of course would not accept any money from us,” she continued. Though it’s very kind of you. Barring that
the Valade fellow had sneaked back. His attitude toward her was purely intellectual, free of any sentimentality, utterly
selfish. “I should like to speak to you for a few minutes,” he said to Anna, dropping his
voice a little. But still
she knew they were not right, and at times they became a horrible obsession as
of something waiting for her round the corner. I pray you, Gérard, do not fail me. Observing Spurlock's spellbound attitude, he clapped the boy on the shoulder. 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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