"If you are human," rejoined Trenchard, with stern emphasis, "I insist upon
knowing whence you derived your information?"
"I might refuse to answer the question, Sir Rowland. She ignored his question. . ’ She shook her head sadly. Three times he uttered a phrase:
"A djinn in a blue-serge coat!"
And each time he would follow it with a chuckle—the chuckle of a soul in
damnation. ‘Oh, Lord,’ muttered Gerald, going instantly to her aid. 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. "Go and take your plunge while I attend to breakfast. Once inside, he looked around, worried that
his parents would suddenly cancel their trip and return
home. “That’s all very well when one isn’t the material experimented upon,” Ann
Veronica had remarked. ’
‘Parbleu,’ exclaimed the girl, jumping up in some dudgeon.
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