“I hope that Mr. . 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. "In the name of your lamented parent, whose memory I shall for ever revere, I
implore you to answer me," urged Kneebone, "why—why would you not accept
him?"
"Because our positions are different," replied Winifred, who could not resist this
appeal to her feelings. ” Marina would drawl,
Lucy invoking her mother’s face as the image of the
beautiful but cruel princess Anoush. —Your father, Sir Montacute Trenchard, who
had been a loyal subject of King James the Second, and borne arms in his
service, on the abdication of that monarch, turned his back upon the Stuarts, and
would never afterwards recognise their claims to the crown.
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