”
“Do you think he’ll come after you?”
“Why would he do that? It has been three hundred
239
years. ’
A scowl crossed the lady’s face. Babies and females
have got to keep hold of somebody or go under—anyhow, for the next few
generations. 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. "Stand aside, Tom," commanded Kneebone. "My name will only be remembered as that of a robber," he mused; "but it shall
be remembered as that of a bold one: and this night's achievement, if it does
nothing else, shall prevent me from being classed with the common herd of
depredators. We have lived
under the same roof, but our ways seem to have lain wide apart. A faint gleam of returning colour gave her at
once a more natural appearance.
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