‘This idiotic female—’
‘This imbecile has made me—’
‘—made me lose my temper, and I—’
‘—cut him with my dagger, and he is—’
‘—damn near slit her throat!’
‘—bleeding like a pig!’
‘Whoa, whoa!’ stormed the captain, starting forward. "Do you know what you make me think of?"
"What?"
"As if you had stepped out of some old family album. “Thanks, I’m not very fond of coffee,” Anna answered, “and I hate music. 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. The dress
of the dwarfish Jew was not, however, favourable to this expedient. The man who staggers,
whose face is flushed, whose attitude is either noisily friendly or truculent, has
some chance; liquor bends him eventually. ‘Do you not
understand that I can trust no one—no one?’
‘That is a pity,’ Gerald said, rising to face her. Anna was sitting before the fire a little distance from
him—Ennison himself remained standing. ‘They cannot help it. Ramage pursed his rather loose lips and shrugged his shoulders, with his eyes
fixed steadily upon her. ’
‘It is you who is absurd,’ countered Melusine, the spark returning to her eye. ’
Gerald hissed in a doubtful breath. Some one had once, in his hearing, called him a prig. "
"To be sure you are," replied Jonathan, laughing.
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