"
"If I thought so—" cried the knight fiercely; "but this is idle," he added,
suddenly checking himself. Apparently, Jonathan perceived he was an object of scrutiny; for, hastily
dismissing his attendant, he walked towards the knight. 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. And yet, on the very
site of the sordid tenements and squalid courts we have mentioned, where the
felon openly made his dwelling, and the fraudulent debtor laughed the object of
his knavery to scorn—on this spot, not two centuries ago, stood the princely
residence of Charles Brandon, the chivalrous Duke of Suffolk, whose stout heart
was a well of honour, and whose memory breathes of loyalty and valour. She was informed by Ah Cum that the Chinaman
was one of the literati and that he was expounding the deathless philosophy of
Confucius, which, summed up, signified that the end of all philosophy is
Nothing. I
cannot think he will welcome a French émigré for his granddaughter. He had been for months without music of the character he loved—and he
dared not play any of it!
McClintock, after the music began, left the piano and sat in a corner just beyond
the circle of light cast by the lamp. "But, I own, I think it is like.
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