The walls are too high, and the windows too stoutly barricaded in this quarter, to admit such a supposition. 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 got up, as she had been told to do, at his appearance, and he amazed her by sitting down, according to custom, on her stool. ’ ‘Lord,’ Gerald murmured, awed more by the outspokenness of his hostess than by what she had said. “Hello? She’s like, your girlfriend, not mine. I am five-and-thirty, and I have knocked about in the world and tasted the quality of life. "And on my part, I shall not lift a hand to defend myself. The uproar was tremendous—men yelling— dogs barking,—but above all was heard the stentorian voice of Jonathan, urging them on. And in these crowded four weeks, what had she learned? That all horizons were lies: that smiles and handshakes and goodbyes and welcomes were lies: that there were really no to-morrows, only a treadmill of to-days: and that out of these lies and mirages she had plucked a bitter truth—she was alone.
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