"Anything that concerns Ruth is of
interest to me. I shall barely be in
time for the theatre. You're rich. “I’ve broken off my
engagement,” she said, in a matter-of-fact tone, and found her heart thumping in
her neck. I have neither father, mother,
brother, sister, nor husband—I have only him. She glanced at the Frenchman, and found him struggling with the portrait that
was embedded around his scalp. Why he paid so much attention to Sir James Thornhill may be
explained anon. The boat was set free, and the men
resumed their seats. ”
Mr. "
"My confessor!" ejaculated the knight, in the extremity of surprise; "has he
betrayed his sacred trust?"
"He has," replied the other, grinning; "and this will be a caution to you in future,
how you confide a secret of consequence to a priest. Wood's bed-chamber—it was locked, with the key left in it. 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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