And for my part, if I were inclined to exercise my benevolence at all, it
should be in favour of some more deserving object than that whining,
hypocritical Magdalene. Jack Kimble stiffened, looking at his interrogator with wary anger in his face. Pausing at each door on the landing, Jack placed his ear to the keyhole,
and listened intently. “Shhh. A loud buzz of curiosity circulated among the domestics; some of whom—
especially the females—leaned forward to obtain a peep at the culprit. 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. ‘I did not think so. The Return. ’
‘She once more,’ came in disgust from the girl on the bed. “If I am to turn you into a
vampire, she cannot know. “Whither away?” he said, very distinctly in a curiously wheedling voice. He was a bad dog; he
knew it perfectly; but where there was laughter, there was hope.
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