"I am content," said Jack. “But, of course, she may have come from one
of the other flats. I quickly ingratiated myself to Gianfrancesco, playing
on his insecurities, drawing from his need for more and
more power. ’
She bit her lip, and then turning her face away, emitted another sigh. “She must look forward to Italy. “I wonder,” he said, and went off at a tangent. It took a
deal of thought to cast a comprehensive cable, for it had to include where
Spurlock was, what he was doing, and the fact that O'Higgins's letter of credit
would not now carry him and Spurlock to San Francisco. 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. ’
‘That’s easy. It
was not only Leonardo who had instilled in her this distrust of men. She was not very clear about the position and duties of a chorus-girl, but it
certainly had the air of being a last desperate resort. “At a boarding-house?” he gasped. 1. She was standing before a window, against
the background of the rain-burdened April sky.
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