Still, it was rather terrible to suspect that one had fallen from grace, but nevertheless the thing was possible. Not many years ago, two men, employed on this duty, quarrelled during the night, and in the morning their bodies were found stretched upon the pavement of the yard beneath. \"Shhh! He rolled onto his back again, raising himself in alarm. There was a certain air of forced fortuity in his manner. Everywhere I went and rapped at a door I found behind it another dreadful dingy woman—another fallen queen, I suppose— dingier than the last, dirty, you know, in grain. " Ruth brushed her eyes with one hand and with the other signed for the spinster to stop. Taking this for encouragement, her suitor proceeded still more extravagantly. Slowly she released the hammer on the pistol, uncocking it, and Gerald became conscious that he had been holding his breath. ” “I couldn’t do that,” said Ann Veronica, sharply. ’ ‘That is what you thought of me. ” Lucy became livid with rage. 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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