Sir John
followed her gaze, and also saw them. "
"You are very good to me, Hoddy. Five hours later she tiptoed down the hall and paused at the threshold of what
they now called his study. ‘You think
my father would not have married Suzanne if he had known? Me, I do not agree. ‘Oh, peste,’ she cried out in distressed tones. Yet her embarrassment was only a passing thing. Sir Rowland Trenchard is aware of
your return to England. A friend of mine, Ogilvy’—I
suppose that’s Ogilvy & Ogilvy, who do so many divorces, Vee?—‘was
speaking very highly of it—very highly!’” He smiled into her eyes. "Off with it to the health of King James the Third, and confusion to his
enemies!"
"Hold!" interposed Wood; "that is treason. He added succinctly, ‘Windows are open. But what did he know beyond these facts? Nothing, clearly. "
While making these remarks, Blueskin contrived, by means of a chisel which he
chanced to have about him, to lift up the board, and, introducing his fingers
beneath it, with Jack's assistance speedily opened it altogether, disclosing a dark
hole, into which he leapt. As he proceeded, other painful reminiscences were aroused. 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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