"Search him and iron him afresh;" commanded Jonathan. She made herself a
private declaration of liberty. Part 8
“Why should I ever come back?” she said to herself, as she went down the
staircase. Most of you
Americans pattern all Chinese upon those who fill a little corner in New York. 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. Anyhow, ten minutes after I get to work I'll be rumpling it. ‘Jacques, do not go!’
Jack gazed steadfastly at the floor. ”
From that she opened out into a long, confused emphatic discourse on the
position of women, full of wonderful statements, while Constance worked at her
stencilling and Ann Veronica and Hetty listened, and Teddy contributed
sympathetic noises and consumed cheap cigarettes. Goopes when at home dressed simply in a pajama-shaped suit of canvas sacking
tied with brown ribbons, while his wife wore a purple djibbah with a richly
embroidered yoke. He was accompanied by a young man of about
seven-and-twenty, who carried his easel, set it in its place, laid the canvass upon
it, opened the paint box, took out the brushes and palette, and, in short, paid him
the most assiduous attention. But his own ferocity was less now that she was disarmed. ‘Laisse-moi,’ she panted, shifting wildly in his hold, so that he had all to do to
keep her thus imprisoned.
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